Sybaris and other homes

Edward Everett Hale

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B AS Y HI S AND OTHER HOMES. BY EDWARD E. HALE, BOSTON : & CO.FIELDS, OSQOOD, 1869. -H Entered to act of in theaccording Congress, year 1869, by &FIELDS, OSGOOD, CO., in the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. PKESS : &UNIVERSITY WELCH, BIGELOW, Co., CAMBRIDGE. DEDICATION. I DEDICATE this book to the SUFFOLK UNION FOE CHRISTIAN WOEK. At the which formed that the for bettermeeting Society provision homes in cities was declared to be the first work of Christianpublicly reform. At since some has enforced the sameevery meeting person necessity. E. HALE.EDWARD SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHTOCH, BOSTON, 1869.September 18, M1G9757 PREFACE. THE reader will see that the in this bookpapers have a whether cast in the form of ficobject,single or whether statistical narratives of fact. If Ition, should them as the were classified inclassify papers an earlier volume of this little the account ofseries, is the account of what to be theNaguadavick ought ; of isaccount Vineland the account of what is and ; the account of Boston is the of what oughtO not to be. In the narrative of the readerSybaris " " will find of of some if,"something something yes," " " of some much and ; fact,thing perhaps possibility, some exaggeration. I a to the earnestnesshave, perhaps, right explain with which I to enforce the of betternecessitytry homes for men a circumlaboring by stating single stance in own For twenty-fivemy history.

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• Utopías
• Working class

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• Langue: English
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B AS Y HI S
AND OTHER HOMES.
BY
EDWARD E. HALE,
BOSTON :
& CO.FIELDS, OSQOOD,
1869.-H
Entered to act of in theaccording Congress, year 1869, by
&FIELDS, OSGOOD, CO.,
in the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
PKESS : &UNIVERSITY WELCH, BIGELOW, Co.,
CAMBRIDGE.DEDICATION.
I DEDICATE this book to the
SUFFOLK UNION FOE CHRISTIAN WOEK.
At the which formed that the for bettermeeting Society provision
homes in cities was declared to be the first work of Christianpublicly
reform. At since some has enforced the sameevery meeting person
necessity.
E. HALE.EDWARD
SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHTOCH, BOSTON,
1869.September 18,
M1G9757PREFACE.
THE reader will see that the in this bookpapers
have a whether cast in the form of ficobject,single
or whether statistical narratives of fact. If Ition,
should them as the were classified inclassify papers
an earlier volume of this little the account ofseries,
is the account of what to be theNaguadavick ought ;
of isaccount Vineland the account of what is and
;
the account of Boston is the of what oughtO
not to be. In the narrative of the readerSybaris
" "
will find of of some
if,"something something yes,"
"
"
of some much and
; fact,thing perhaps possibility,
some exaggeration.
I a to the earnestnesshave, perhaps, right explain
with which I to enforce the of betternecessitytry
homes for men a circumlaboring by stating single
stance in own For twenty-fivemy history. nearly
I have been in the Chris
years constantly engaged
intian About half that time wasministry. spent
in BosMassachusetts about half of itWorcester, ;
ton. When I went to Worcester it was a town cf
about thousand when I left it had; it,eight people
three times that number. Boston is a crowded townVI PREFACE.
of a inhabitants. It is forquarter-million impossible
me not to in hour of the contrastnotice, life,every my
the homesbetween of the in theseworking people
two I almost that there is no other
places. might say
difference of between the socialimportance opportu
of the two are not farnities ;places. They apart
both are active of in aboutbusiness,places employing
inof andequal proportions people enterprise energy,
the varied work of and trans.-manufacture, commerce,
But in one of these almostportation. places every
do. In theman can own his and half the menhouse,
other man can own his and halfhouse,hardly any
the are crowded into where no manpeople quarters
toshould be live.compelled
To watch over and the charities ofimprove any
town is the of the Christian in
special duty ministry
to its and clothe its tofeed naked,it, hungry open
the of its blind and the ears of its todeaf,eyes
make its lame to cleanse its and towalk, lepers,
to its the imWill readerpreach good tidings poor.
to himself the of the man in
agine position engaged
that when he finds his sick in such tenements as
duty,
live in in our hismust blind,they present system,
for born in rooms with no wininstance, so, perhaps,
and all his in such homes that thedow, poor only truly
are which send them fromgood tidings tidings away
him ? of the live inWhere a considerable part people
such homes our best devised either for moralcharities,
culture or work at terrible odds. Yourphysical relief,