This Charity has always Encouraged Self-help--No Pauperism Stimulated under it--The Laborer in this Field sees the Fruit--Harmony with Natural Laws sought for constantly--Advantage Taken of Demand for Labor--The Family Home sought for, rather than the Asylum--Lodging-houses not Permitted to become Homes--Evening-schools--Savings'-bank, Religious Meeting, and Day-school--All Stimulates Self-help--The Forces under the Society the Strongest Forces of life--The Work Founded on Natural Principles--Just Treatment of the Employes by the Trustees--This Charity as well served as any Business-house--The Aim of the Executive Officer with the Employes--Great Success of many of them--One Million of Dollars passed through the Treasury, and not One Squandered--High Character of the Board of Trustees--The Success much Dependent on them--Tabulation of the Accounts--Long Services of the Treasurer, Mr. J. E. Williams--The Sectarian Danger--Great Care to Avoid this--The Utmost Publicity a Necessity--Need for State Aid--Sensation to be Avoided--Hopes that this Charity will Scatter its Blessings for Generations to come..pp. 440-448 THE DANGEROUS CLASSES OF NEW YORK; AND TWENTY YEARS' WORK AMONG THEM. ---- CHAPTER I. CHRIST IN CHARITY AND REFORM. THE CONDITION OF NEGLECTED CHILDREN BEFORE CHRISTIANITY. The central figure in the world's charity is CHRIST. An eloquent rationalistic writer--Mr. Lecky--speaking of the Christian efforts in early ages in behalf of exposed children and against infanticide, says: "Whatever mistakes may have been made, the entire movement I have traced displays an anxiety not only for the life, but for the moral well-being, of the castaways of society, such as the most humane nations of antiquity had never reached. This minute and scrupulous care for human life and human virtue in the humblest forms, in the slave, the gladiator, the savage, or the infant, was indeed wholly foreign to the genius of Paganism. It was produced by the Christian doctrine of the inestimable value of each immortal soul. "It is the distinguishing and transcendent characteristic of every society into which the spirit of Christianity has passed." Christ has indeed given a new value to the poorest and most despised human being.