The idea is for you to take an interest in preparing them for your church. To shove them out of your way, into the gutter, and say, “they are only newsboys,” will never bring these boys to you or into your churches. They are the strayed sheep. When upon the street you meet these “dirty brats,” instead of avoiding them, of paying no attention to them, say pleasantly, “Good morning,” and say it in a tone that means you are sincere and really wish them a very good morning. That would be easy and a thousand times better than to throw them money, as you, perhaps, have often done, to get rid of them, or thinking you have done them a great act of charity. All this costs you nothing. Instead of having in your heart the desire to destroy; encourage the desire to rescue, to uplift. Instead of hating, cultivate love. “Go forth into the world and seek for light and light is yours.” If you would learn the secret of real happiness, mingle with the children. They are messengers which come to bless. But you must understand them. They will teach you things you never knew or dreamed of. A speaker at one of the auxiliary meetings asked a boy to give him an illustration of, “who is my neighbor?” He answered: “This morning I shoveled off the snow from the sidewalks in front of our house. After I got through I went across the street and cleaned the snow from the sidewalks of a widow lady. A friend passing asked me ‘why I did it,’ I replied ‘why, she’s our neighbor’.” We often hear it said that time is wasted in trying to save these newsboys, not perhaps because of the boy himself, but because of that which makes him what he is. It is argued that his environment, the influences which surround him from the day of his birth, will make him a criminal in spite of all we can do. The Bible holds man responsible. If you kind reader, believe in God, believe in the Bible, you will find the divine law (Ezekiel XXXIII.) determines your personal responsibility. “So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth. If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked _man_ shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.” Following down the ages the same responsibility is required of Christians (James IV-17): “To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is a sin.” The man who fails to rise above the level of his own selfish interests is the man to whom these apply.