Word: sea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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July 8. Essex County Country Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea...
...Salvation Army. First he told of his own struggles, when he had taken his stand alone against the tide of poverty, disease and crime in the eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make the salvation of his suffering fellow creatures his life work, and here in this dark district of London, where the light of God had never penetrated, be found his field of labor...
...desperate state certain districts of London were, he could induce many to take hold and aid him in the work of salvation. He prefaced his scheme with a diagram, pronounced hideous by the lovers of high art, but by it he hoped to lead people to see the dark sea of misery and crime, which was so near them. We give a man the name of drunkard or tramp, said the general, and then turn away in disgust and think we have done with him. Yet the tramp is still a man; he can feel cold and the gnawing pangs...
...conclusion General Booth outlined his well known scheme for bettering the condition of the unfortunate classes: the City Colony, the Farm Colony, and the Colony Beyond the Sea...
Editions of "The Odes and Epodes of Horace," by Professor Smith, and "Sea and Land," by Professor Shaler, have recently been published...