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1. I.
“Hundreds of little Italian boys are kept by old hags
on Cherry and Baxter streets, just to steal and beg.
If they come home at night without having stolen or
begged certain sums, the poor little fellows are whipped
and made to go to bed on the floor without any
supper. Most of these boys turn out pick-pockets,
and eventually go to the Island or to Sing Sing as
burglars and housebreakers. One little fellow who has
lived on Cherry street for seven years didn't know
what the Bible was, and he told us he had never
heard of Christ.”
—N.Y. Times.
But
“the Rev. Mr. Van Meter, who established the second
Five Points Mission House, has raised funds enough
to establish a Protestant mission church in Rome. He
writes that three more Italian subjects have been rescued
from Popery and converted to the Protestant
faith, and that he is deeply solicitous for further contributions
help on the glorious work and enable them to build
a snug little marble parsonage for the residence of
the American missionaries.”
—Five Points Mission Report.
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