The Five Points House of Industry, which received, from 1858 to 1869, the sum of $30,731.69. from our Board of Education, states in its charter, among the objects for which it was incorporated, the following: “III. To imbue the objects of its care with the pure principles of Christianity, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, without bias from the distinctive peculiarities of any individual sect.” This means that the children belonging to distinctive religious denominations, instead of being allowed to follow the distinctive tenets, and practise the worship, in which they were reared, are deprived of this right, and, as respects the Catholic children, they are to reject and exclude every tenet and devotion distinctively Catholic. How far even this profession of unsectarianism is carried into practice will be discovered from the _Monthly Record_ of the Five Points House of Industry for April and May, 1870, p. 302, giving an account of the dedicatory exercises: “The services consisted of an opening anthem by the children, followed by a prayer by _Rev._ Dr. Paxton, asking a blessing upon the House and its objects. “This was followed by a hymn; a statement of the affairs of the institution, by _Rev._ S. B. Halliday; a recitative by the children; a statement as to city missions, by _Rev._ G. J. Mingins; a short discourse on the ‘Union of Christian Effort,’ by _Rev._ H. D. Ganse; a discourse on the ‘Lights and Shadows of Large Cities,’ by _Rev._ John Hall, D.D.; and, finally, a roundelay given by the children.” How far the pledge given in the charter of this establishment, “without _bias_ from the distinctive peculiarities of any individual sect,” is carried out is further seen from the following extract from a letter addressed by the president to the Rev. John Cotton Smith, a prominent minister of the Episcopalian sect: “Between your church and the institution the most kind and harmonious _co-operation_ has ever existed. They will ever cherish a most pleasing remembrance of the relations that have subsisted between them.”[7] We might have alluded to the “Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers,” founded by that arch-proselytizer, the Rev. W. C. Van Meter, which during seven years _disposed of_ 7,580 “little wanderers” of this city, in an unsectarian manner; but want of space forbids our doing so. But the _animus_ pervading this and other unsectarian institutions is exhibited to us now in the fact, that this reverend has transferred the field of his labors from the Five Points to the city of Rome, the centre and headquarters of Catholicity. He has there established a mission and home for the little Romans. We do not stand alone in our opinion that such institutions are nuisances for Catholic children, and we quote the closing words of a letter recently addressed to the Rev. Mr. Van Meter by the editor of the _Voce della Verita_, at Rome: