A NEW YORK INSTITUTION.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3177, 25 April 1879, Page 1

A NEW YORK INSTITUTION.

The following Ji an extract ffoiii a ■ermon b* Revi ;T. De ge z4 We turned downChamberi street until we came to,the : jign, t ,...., r,.... „.. K;i ;a :]_ " kxwsboys' iodgukg hot/si," wad we went in.'Nbw," if >liere "ii any- - thing I hke itli^ % 8 «. Nd t thosetrought up by registers^ with the home heated by furnaces, lads manipulated by som ->■;* over-indulgent aunt, whose hair lvi b«5P^ curled until they have -lot s&WSBm "':': makes, with extra romp and fcilarity, ho v ifthe^ ha*e !^en, Pounded by the - world they shall hafegpnie >xuberance £' nn Tt :-'«■"»«"*« *#■» wbo cannot keep quiet five minutes. ,3oyswhocan "k»te »nd swimi and ißre and fly kite., and strike balls, and defendgicHy play' . mates when they ire, ippo«aJon, and set hungry in half-an^uFafteir they haVe Sveiji/W^^ tSw:;«!*w*:v''2 We entered the Newsboy* 1 Lodging, house, and there we found them. I knew them hght away, and they knew me, by a sort,of instinct of friendliness. Their coats off; for, although! (dutetdtf it* was uS Christian charity had flooded everything with alotipus summer, Qvwitfia, doorwaj were written, the words* "Nlbojr that hare homes can stop here." " What;l£ I said, and happy lads flaW^beira iwenT^D from the street P'" Fi M t thej\»w plunge* info, W: b&fi^ liffl -MthW %Ur pass under the! m>hl P ;ul&Tons of the barber, and«'^^^ffleV *it 6' J:Men to thw Watdrobe, fin*%fth^'.ftampF Him "}°, !*$ 7* *WW% -and ye clothed Me, theOr ? in appropnate attrfe, each 'of? paving. Jf he can, io ihetohAfr^^Swe of pauperism;;'^fe»^ v«^,Vftfimi^MOTW one table, and the mast,extravagant paying only six cents. . Gym nasimptft Heighten and mwgorate th.arpinched bodies; books f#r the mind ; religion for the soul. I ■•id,"Can thwe^oyrimg-f-^-in^'the answer came, back in j^ anthem that shook the roomi-U.w»i>~ ....„, Fprtter'eVfoyW.aiyr I know statistics aro,gebertiljrifv*ry^dry, but here ißv» fa*at'ißtic whi^blhabitfi^as much spirit as anything that Thackeray ever wrote, and as much suMmlty^aa an/thing John Milton &Ter W«jie^:>^6ne hundred and forty-three thousand boys have been.assembled ibthese newsboys' lodging-houses since the establishment of the.)institution-; itwel»e' thousand' ihave j been returned jt«, iftien^si v^ad-,. fifteen thousand have- deposited in thii 'great box over 42,000 dollars;-whil^ many of the lads have .been;pfep^red;,for usefulness—becomingftrmers, m^Dhanics, merchants, bankew, clergymen^ Jarwyers, doctors, judges of Courts ;efen, and many of ithem- prepared foro leaven, where some* have already- entered, to be with that Christ in whose-compassion the institution was established.*' 'And this society alt the'time transporting'ihe lads to Western farms. No reformation for them while they stay in the dens of New York. Vi hat must be the sensation of a lad who havlived^alljiis jiayg in Elm sTre'eitT'or'^v'ater'stre'el, when lieVakes.up on the lowa prairie* with one hundred miles room on all sides P;'