CHILDREN OF THE SLUMS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1901

CHILDREN OF THE SLUMS.

“Perhaps what I have seen of child-life in the slums has made upon my heart the deepest scars,” writes Mrs. Ballington Booth, in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “Poor little scraps of humanity, sick, puny, and deformed, or what was even worse still, vile and evil in word and disposition before the baby accents had left their words! The streets swarmed with them, playing, quarrelling, fighting, amid the jostling crowd and traffic, until late into the night, and the houses were full of little figures that slept on the floor or crouched in the corners to get away from the drunken and brutal, who delight in abusing the weak. In summer, death’s angel mows them down thru the hot season as the scythe cuts the flowers amid the hay, and it has often seemed to me that on such a mission his black robes vanish and he is a veritable angel of light.”