Category: History - British
Why the inhabitants called their place of residence Paradise Court was never clearly understood. The parochial authorities substituted for the name of the garden of primeval beauty that of a lovely southern county of old England, and on their official papers styled it Devonshi...
"They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament:" they who have the wisdom of God in a mystery, or the hidden wisdom,--the knowledge not to be found by searchi...
6. CHAPTER VI.A PRAISE MEETING--DEATH OF THE WIDOW--JOY OF THE BLESSED--OUT OF THE PRIZE RING--A FAREWELL SPEECH--A FAGGER--A STRANGE PREACHER--DUSTY AND THE FIDDLER--PRAYING IN THE CELL--IND...
11. CHAPTER XI.A GILDED SALOON--A PIGEON PLUCKER--DISCOURAGEMENT--THE COFFEE MAN--DESTITUTE--THE SOLITUDE OF THE CITY--MADNESS OF DISGRACE--THE BEGGAR AND HIS BOY--THE "TRAVELLER'S REST"--THE...
9. CHAPTER IX.Thirteen years of Christian work in public, coffee, and night-houses, during which time 465 Sunday evenings were spent in the bars, taps, and parlours of these places, gave the...
7. CHAPTER VII."You see, master, as how it can't be no otherwise; my poor husband is very ill, and cos it's consumption he can't live long. I has to go out a-selling to get us a living, and he...
10. CHAPTER X.London never sleeps. The noise and din of the mighty city is hushed as the night advances and the toiling millions of the day sink to repose; but their rest is the signal for th...
5. CHAPTER V.All who knew "Roley-poley," as the children delighted to call him, were convinced that something was wrong with him or his affairs. He was regarded as one of the respectables of...
3. CHAPTER III."Pioneers are required in my parish," said the Rector to the Missionary, at the time of his appointment. "In these densely populated parts of London the people have outgrown the...
12. CHAPTER XII."He went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and He said unto him, Follow Me. And he left all, rose up, and followed Him." LUKE v. 27, 28.
1. CHAPTER I.Why the inhabitants called their place of residence Paradise Court was never clearly understood. The parochial authorities substituted for the name of the garden of primeval bea...
8. CHAPTER VIII.With this farewell purpose, the Christian visitor entered the "bottle department" early upon the following Sunday evening, but found the place so filled with customers that neit...
4. CHAPTER IV.If the crew of a man of war may be regarded as a "little world," the densely-packed hundreds of our Court could certainly claim the same distinction. In addition to the miserabl...
2. CHAPTER II.Monday morning cast its usual gloom over Paradise Court in the persons of the rent collectors. Many of the men and women had gone out upon various callings, and others, whose su...