CHAPTER XXXV. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION FOR STREET-CHILDREN. The Difficulties of Religious Teaching--Street-children not to be Influenced like Sunday Schools--Rhetoric and Sentiment do not Touch Them--True Oratory and the Dramatic Method always Reach them--They are Peculiarly Open to Religion, but Exposed to Overwhelming Temptations--Solemn Aspect of their Position to the Speaker--The Problem--The Object to Implant Religious Love and Faith--Moral Influences not Sufficient--"Bread-and-Butter Piety" Doubtful--Objection to Prizes or Rewards--Religious Instruction not so desirable as Religious Inspiration--The New Testament to be Preferred to the Old--The Knowledge and Faith in Christ, Most of all Needed--What this Faith Has Done, and What it Can Do--Mistakes of Sunday-school Oratory--Rhetorical Pyrotechnics not Wanted--Allegory the Best Method--Our Best Speaker a Sportsman--His Sympathies with Boys and with Nature--"BIBLE IN SCHOOLS"--Religious Instruction in Public Schools Desirable, if all were of the same Faith--Bible-reading used by the Priests Against the Schools--Free Schools the Life-blood of the Nation--Protestants should Never Allow Them to be Broken Up--Protestant Pluck--Are School Religious Exercises of Much Use--Separation of Church and State--Experience of England--Free Schools without Religion, rather than no Free Schools.....................................................pp. 418-428 CHAPTER XXXVI. DECREASE OF JUVENILE CRIME--COST OF PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT. Instance of the Three Brothers in the Newsboys' Lodging-house--The Damage Inflicted by One on the Community--The Gain brought by the Labor of the Others--Cost of Our Criminals last Year--Amount of Property Taken--Expenses of Prevention--Average Cost of each Child in our Industrial Schools--In our Lodging-houses--And when sent to the West--Number Provided for in the Country--Crime Checked--Commitments of Female Vagrants--Arrests of Female Vagrants--Commitments for Thieving--For "Juvenile Delinquency"--Number of Girls under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned--Great Decrease of Crime among Girls--Crime Checked among Boys--Commitment of Boys for Vagrancy--For Petit Larceny--Number of Boys under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned--Number between Fifteen and Twenty--Arrests of Pickpockets--Of Petty Thieves--Of Girls under Twenty--Estimate of Money Saved in One Year by Reduction of Commitments.................................................pp. 429-439 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE CAUSES OF THE SUCCESS OF THE WORK.