London alone,--how to save œ54,000 in the last eleven years. Let them
help this society heartily.

The children of this world are--in their generation--wiser than the
children of light. But how long their generation will last, depends
mainly (we are told) on how far they make themselves friends out of the
mammon of unrighteousness.

But if, again, there be rich people in this congregation, as I trust
there are many and many, who start, indignant, at such an imputation, and
utterly deny its truth--then,--if it be false, why in the name of God,
and of humanity, and of common prudence, why do they not go to these
people and tell them so? Why do they not prove that it is not so, by
showing a little more human sympathy, not merely for them behind their
backs, but sympathy with them face to face? If they wish to know how
much can be done by only a little active kindness, they have only to read
the pages of that painful, and yet pleasant, book--"East and West,"--
which I have just quoted; and to read, also, an appendix to it--a Paper
originally read at the Church Congress, Manchester, by the present Lord
Chancellor--a document which it would be an impertinence in me to
recommend or praise.

Bring yourselves then boldly into contact with these classes, and
especially into contact with the women--with the wives and mothers. For
it is through the women, through them mainly, if not altogether, that
civilization and religion can be introduced among any degraded class. It
was so in the Middle Age. The legends which tell us how woman was then
the civilizer, the softener, the purifier, the perpetual witness to
fierce and coarse men, that there were nobler aims in life than pleasure,
and power, and the gratification of revenge; that not self-assertion, but