ABSTRACT
THE only organized movement that has been made in the present century to carry education to the lowest depths of society, to seek out in their hiding-places the most wretched and deserted children, to shed over them the light of knowledge and of Christianity, and thus if possible to raise them from their hopeless condition, has been made by the promoters of Ragged Schools. The enterprise was prompted by religious faith and love ;-it has made discoveries of waste places of the earth which none but a Christian would have had courage to penetrate, and has awakened public attention to a work which is of God, and cannot come to nought.
