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ing the voice of the tempter; without you is the Christ; and before you have moved a multitude whom no man can number, clad in white robes, and beckoning you onward.

Be comforted, when you remember that you are not alone; take your place in the great caravan of the ages, and feel that you are one with those that are toiling and those whose toil is done, until across the desert sands the morning breaks, and the bright City and Home of God shines out. For ye are not come unto the Mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest; but ye are come unto Mount Sion, unto the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.

CRIME.

68. Subject.

69. One-sided Sympathy.

70. Class against Class.

71. What is done to cure Criminals?

72. John Howard.

73. His Early Life.

74. Wife and Child.

75. Sheriff of Bedford.

76. State of the English Prisons.
77. York and Ely.

78. Out of Sight, out of Mind.
79. Every one responsible.
80. Howard's Method.
81. Howard's First Principle.
82. Howard's Second Principle.
83. Howard's Third Principle
84. Howard's Fourth Principle.
85. Howard's Fifth Principle.
86. Howard's Sixth Principle.

87. Compulsory Education of Children. 88. Compulsory Work.

89. What has been done for Children? 90. Our Street Arabs.

91. Rob Roy on the Arab.

92. Organise.

93. We Treat Children as Criminals.

94. The Case put.

95. Real Cases.

96. Case from the Gaol Cradle.

CRIME.

97. The School-Board not the PoliceCourt.

98. Deterrent Influences.

99. Causes of adult Crime.

100. The Objects of Punishment. 101. Hanging.

102. Its uncertainty.

103. Why it fails to deter.

104. Practical Results at Liverpool. 105. Flogging.

106. A Word to Parents.

107. Garotting and Flogging. 108. Crank and Treadmill.

109. The prisoner should profit by his Labour.

110. Arguments against productive Prison Work.

111. Discharged Prisoners.

112. Are Prisons too Comfortable?
113. Evil of Repeated Short Sentences.
114. Cumulative Punishment.

115. Separate System.

116. Can Criminals be Reformed? 117. Power of Love.

118. Appeal to Experience.

119. Power of Forgiveness.

120. The Patience of Jesus and Man's Impatience.

.III.

CRIME.

HAVE undertaken to address you on the subject of crime. Crime; its cause and cure. So vast a subject can only be treated in outline, but I wish that outline to bear practically upon you at all points. If the cause of crime must often be beyond your reach, the cure will often be within your reach.

69. At the outset then I will say, to cure crime you must change your attitude towards the criminal classes. People pity the lower criminal classes, but they have little pity for the man who cleverly picks a lock, or plans the robbery of your jewels, or cuts a valuable picture out

of its frame, or slides in amongst good company and steals the spoons.

But the leading members of the thief's profession have risen from the ranks, remember that. Probably they too are the children of thieves, they came into the world weighted with bad tendencies, and were trained by bad example; all which you admit in the case of the lower thief, but it is true of the others as a class for whom you have so little pity.

Realise well the rock from which the criminal classes, high and low, are hewn, and your heart will melt, your eyes will be open, and you will see and feel how you should act towards them.

70. At present society is ranged against society in opposite camps. We look We look upon the criminal class as a class to be stamped out, and so we catch it, and shut it up, and when we have shut it up we don't think anything more about it till it escapes from our treatment, rather worse than before, and presses itself upon us again.

But criminals have been submitted to temptations from which you and I are free, and when they have committed crime we ought to

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