toguide
their
souls
as
they
would
.
The
immense
gulf
existing
between
the
church
and
the
workmen
also
surprised
the
Cornish
lad
.
At
home
,
though
the
cottagers
and
the
clergy
stood
as
wide
as
the
poles
apart
,
socially
and
intellectually
,
yet
there
was
some
kind
of
mutual
knowledge
and
intercourse
;
which
,
if
it
meant
little
for
human
wants
and
less
for
spiritual
needs
,
still
was
intercourse
and
knowledge
.
In
London
there
was
none
;
or
so
little
in
proportion
to
the
work
to
be
done
,
it
seemed
almost
as
good
as
none
.
The
parish
priest
,
save
in
some
chiefly
ritualistic
exceptions
,
scarcely
exists
,
and
his
place
is
supplied
by
all
sorts
of
lieutenants
,
both
authorised
and
irregular
;
by
Bible
women
,
the
City
missionaries
,
Baptists
,
Roman
Catholics
,
and
the
thousand
and
one
odd
,
obscure
sectaries
of
whom
no
one
in
good
society
ever
heard
the
names
—
anything
rather
than
the
fashionable
preacher
who
has
invested
all
his
store
of
godliness
in
his
sermons
,
or
the
beneficed
clergyman
who
thinks
his
East-end
income
dearly
bought
at
the
price
of
his
East-end
residence
.
As
he
grew
however
,
to
understand
the
inner
relations
of
life
in
the
metropolis
,
he
ceased
to
wonder
at
the
wide-spread
indifferentism
of
the
working
men
;
and
he
came
further
to
understand
how
religion
,
like
other
things
,
had
followed
that
class
antagonism
felt
by
the
artisan
,
to
which
the
exclusiveness
of
caste
cherished
by
the
rich
had
given
birth
.
Christianity
represents
to
the
poor
,
not
Christ
tender
to
the
sinful
,
visiting
the
leprous
,
the
brother
of
publicans
,
at
whose
feet
sat
the
harlots
and
were
comforted
,
but
the
bishop
in
his
palace
and
the
parson
in
his
grand
house
,
the
gentleman
taking
sides
with
God
against
the
poor
and
oppressed
,
as
an
elder
brother
in
the
courts
of
heaven
kicking
the
younger
out
of
doors
.
It
is
in
fact
,
he
used
to
say
,
antagonism
not
love
;
Cain
not
Christ
.
His
religious
experiences
followed
the
natural
course
of
such
a
mind
as
his
,
at
once
so
earnest
and
so
logical
.
Attracted
by
the
self-sacrificing
lives
of
so
many
of
the
Ritualist
party
,
he
threw
himself
with
ardour
into
the
congregation
of
a
noted
City
priest
whose
name
I
do
not
feel
justified
in
giving
,
as
I
have
not
asked
his
consent
.
If
,
however
,
he
should
read
these
pages
he
will
remember
Joshua
Davidson
well
enough
.
The
Superior
,
as
he
was
called
,
took
to
him
greatly
,
and
Joshua
felt
all
the
charm
of
close
intercourse
with
a
cultivated
mind
.
It
was
the
first
time
this
great
good
had
been
granted
him
,
and
it
was
like
a
new
life
to
him
.
At
one
time
I
thought
he
would
have
abandoned
the
independent
line
he
had
chosen
and
would
have
gone
over
to
the
High
Church
party
;
but
I
do
not
think
now
that
he
was
ever
very
near
.
For
,
fascinated
as
he
was
with
the
earnestness
and
culture
of
the
Superior
and
his
colleagues
,
they
failed
to
hold
him
mainly
because
of
the
largeness
of
their
assertions
,
the
smallness
of
their
proofs
,
and
the
feeling
he
had
that
more
lay
behind
their
position
than
they
acknowledged
,
and
that
they
used
their
adherents
as
tools
.
Added
to
which
,
their
devotion
to
the
Church
rather
than
to
Christianity
at
large
,
the
absorption
of
the
human
example
of
Christ
in
His
mystical
character
,
the
deification
of
the
man
as
He
lived
,
as
if
He
had
walked
about
like
a
God
with
a
halo
round
His
head
,
and
was
not
a
real
man
of
the
people
of
his
time
—
of
lowly
birth
,
of
confessed
scientific
ignorance
,
in
antagonism
to
all
the
wealth
and
culture
,
and
class-refinement
and
political
economy
of
His
day
,
fighting
the
cause
of
the
poor
against
the
rich
,
of
the
outcast
against
the
aristocrats
,
just
as
any
earnest
democrat
,
any
single-hearted
communist
,
might
be
doing
at
the
present
day
—
all
this
repelled
him
from
close
union
;
and
all
this
made
him
feel
that
,
great
and
good
as
the
men
themselves
are
,
in
the
High
Church
movement
was
not
his
Shekinah
.
Then
again
,
their
elaborate
system
of
symbolism
seemed
to
him
puerile
;
a
playing
with
spiritual
toys
that
had
less
reality
than
ingenuity
;
and
their
central
creed
of
sacrifice
rather
than
commemoration
in
the
Eucharist
,
backed
by
their
assumption
of
a
priesthood
possessing
unproved
and
mysterious
powers
,
failed
to
convince
him
.
“
You
have
captivated
my
heart
,
”
he
one
day
said
to
the
Superior
—
“
you
charm
my
tastes
—
you
delight
my
imagination
;
but
you
have
not
mastered
my
reason
.
Fairly
reasoned
out
I
do
not
think
your
position
is
tenable
.
You
are
Roman
Catholics
under
another
name
;
irregulars
claiming
to
be
received
on
the
footing
of
the
acknowledged
Body
Guard
;
you
are
infallible
yet
eclectic
,
and
I
cannot
concede
infallibility
to
eclecticism
.
”
“
But
have
you
no
reverence
for
the
virtues
of
obedience
and
humility
?
”
asked
the
Superior
.
“
Cannot
you
quell
that
questioning
spirit
of
yours
for
the
sake
of
the
Church
's
honour
,
and
to
maintain
a
close
front
?
Who
can
hope
to
do
anything
as
an
isolated
unit
against
a
host
?
Is
not
the
whole
secret
of
strength
in
organisation
?
”
“
But
I
cannot
become
part
of
a
system
for
expediency
!
”
said
Joshua
mournfully
.
“
Some
men
may
,
but
it
is
not
given
to
me
to
be
able
to
stifle
my
own
individual
conscience
for
any
considerations
of
party
strength
.
I
have
got
it
to
do
—
to
find
out
if
practical
Christianity
is
possible
in
the
world
,
and
to
learn
why
,
being
Christians
,
we
are
not
of
Christ
.
I
know
I
should
get
something
of
the
kind
in
such
institutions
as
St.
Vincent
de
Paul
and
the
like
,
but
I
should
have
there
so
much
in
excess
of
the
simple
faith
I
love
,
that
I
cannot
join
them
.
I
must
go
on
my
way
alone
.
”
“
And
you
will
fail
,
”
said
the
Superior
.
“
No
one
man
can
succeed
in
such
a
search
as
yours
.
Guided
by
wise
counsels
and
supported
by
authority
you
might
come
to
satisfactory
conclusions
;
but
adrift
on
the
wide
sea
of
dissent
,
and
private
opinion
,
and
individual
vidual
interpretation
,
you
are
lost
.
To
the
Church
came
the
promise
and
the
Spirit
;
believe
in
the
Church
is
your
only
ark.
”
“
If
any
,
then
the
Roman
Catholic
at
once
,
frankly
and
without
reserve
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
If
the
keys
of
life
and
death
are
held
by
a
governing
body
,
they
are
surely
held
within
the
Vatican
;
and
if
I
must
enter
into
the
virtue
of
unquestioning
obedience
,
I
would
rather
accept
it
in
its
totality
.
Your
ritualism
seems
to
me
like
Canute
and
the
waves
.
‘Thus
far
and
no
farther
,
’
you
say
to
private
inquiry
;
and
‘only
so
much
and
so
much
will
we
take
of
tradition
and
the
vitality
of
past
ages.’
Where
is
your
standing-point
?
where
your
logical
foothold
?
By
what
authority
do
you
reject
and
accept
at
will
?
and
by
what
measure
sure
do
you
set
the
length
of
the
tether
of
reason
?
”
“
If
you
are
for
the
whole
history
of
the
Church
you
must
read
more
closely
than
you
have
done
,
”
said
the
Superior
a
little
evasively
.
“
Forgive
me
,
sir
,
”
continued
Joshua
earnestly
;
“
I
know
you
will
,
whatever
I
say
;
for
I
am
speaking
now
heart-open
,
man
to
man
,
and
there
is
no
question
of
discourtesy
or
of
courtesy
;
but
with
all
my
personal
love
and
admiration
for
the
professors
of
your
creed
,
the
creed
itself
is
tainted
with
an
insincerity
I
cannot
digest
.
And
your
position
,
standing
as
you
do
in
the
front
,
between
yearning
souls
demanding
the
support
of
authority
,
the
moral
protection
of
infallibility
,
and
the
only
Western
Church
that
can
give
it
logically
,
is
,
to
my
way
of
thinking
,
both
dangerous
to
yourselves
and
cruel
to
the
people
.
Why
do
you
not
go
over
to
Rome
at
once
,
sir
,
since
your
commission
is
self-appointed
and
irregular
?
”
The
Superior
smiled
gently
.
“
I
never
argue
,
”
he
said
;
“
for
I
never
found
any
good
to
come
of
it
.
These
questions
are
matters
for
spiritual
reception
,
not
dialectical
discussion
.
Use
the
appointed
means
and
the
grace
of
our
Lord
will
find
you
.
”
“
I
have
used
them
;
I
do
use
them
;
and
yet
I
cannot
get
conviction
,
”
Joshua
made
answer
,
as
sorrowfully
as
frankly
.
“
Persevere
!
”
said
the
Superior
solemnly
;
“
the
promises
of
God
never
failed
yet
.
”
Joshua
did
not
speak
.
He
remembered
his
trial
of
the
material
promises
and
how
they
failed
;
but
he
did
not
go
into
that
with
the
Superior
.
He
had
learnt
to
look
back
on
the
phase
through
which
he
had
passed
then
as
a
boyish
craze
,
sincere
if
you
will
,
but
a
craze
all
the
same
.
Yet
it
had
struck
into
him
,
and
,
perhaps
unknown
to
himself
how
much
,
had
helped
greatly
to
modify
his
views
.
It
had
broken
down
his
belief
in
the
literal
exactness
of
the
Scriptures
,
and
the
science-lectures
he
attended
event
the
same
way
;
and
when
one
's
childlike
confidence
has
received
its
first
shock
,
it
is
long
before
anything
like
an
analogous
faith
is
reconstructed
out
of
more
mature
knowledge
.
At
this
time
Joshua
's
mind
was
like
an
unpiloted
vessel
.
He
was
beset
with
doubts
,
in
which
the
only
thing
that
kept
its
shape
or
place
was
the
character
of
Christ
.
For
the
rest
,
everything
had
failed
him
.
“
What
,
”
he
said
to
me
at
this
time
,
“
if
the
spiritual
life
is
as
little
real
as
that
act
of
faith
in
which
we
all
failed
?
—
if
what
we
call
conviction
is
only
a
state
of
the
mind
—
a
subjective
condition
owning
no
absolute
without
—
a
state
as
good
and
righteous
for
the
Buddhist
,
for
the
Mohammedan
,
for
the
Hindoo
,
as
for
the
various
Christian
denominations
?
We
are
all
convinced
.
Every
creed
has
had
its
martyrs
and
enthusiasts
and
its
well-trained
,
well-balanced
professors
,
all
as
firmly
convinced
of
its
truth
and
of
its
being
the
one
truth
only
,
as
the
Superior
is
convinced
of
the
absolute
rightness
of
Anglicanism
,
as
the
Pope
believes
in
the
infallibility
of
his
Church
,
and
the
whole
Christian
world
in
the
impregnability
of
the
Bible
and
its
literal
exactness
.
I
cannot
focus
God
as
these
men
are
able
to
do
;
and
yet
I
feel
it
better
to
be
rooted
than
wandering
,
as
I
am
wandering
now
,
unfixed
and
unnourished
.
If
you
are
rooted
you
can
grow
;
but
floating
,
hovering
,
what
is
the
soul
but
as
one
of
those
winged
seeds
carried
about
by
the
wind
and
fastened
nowhere
?
”
“
And
yet
,
”
I
answered
,
“
it
is
better
to
be
unfastened
from
a
fallacy
than
to
be
rooted
on
it
.
There
must
be
the
moment
of
suspension
when
you
are
in
progress
.
To
mount
a
ladder
you
must
leave
the
rung
on
which
you
stand
,
and
before
you
have
your
foot
on
the
other
it
is
nowhere
—
only
in
space
.
The
time
of
doubt
is
a
time
of
pain
,
but
it
must
be
passed
through
if
we
would
believe
the
better
thing
.
To
have
lost
the
old
land-marks
—
left
them
behind
us
—
is
not
necessarily
to
have
lost
the
right
way
,
Joshua
!
”
“
Ah
!
but
to
have
been
so
near
to
God
as
I
once
felt
myself
—
to
have
lived
in
the
light
—
and
now
to
be
so
far
off
—
to
be
in
darkness
and
alone
!
”
he
sighed
.
“
The
darkest
hour
is
that
before
dawn
,
”
was
my
reply
.
“
Even
at
this
moment
God
may
be
preparing
you
for
conviction
.
”
I
do
not
think
that
what
is
called
the
Evangelical
school
ever
warmed
Joshua
as
the
Ritualists
had
done
.
If
the
assumptions
of
the
Church
,
clad
in
her
venerable
authority
,
seemed
to
him
excessive
,
the
assumptions
of
sectarianism
,
where
each
man
is
an
independent
pope
and
quite
as
bigoted
as
the
real
one
,
were
more
so
.
And
he
could
not
come
to
believe
that
faith
,
which
is
a
thing
we
cannot
give
ourselves
,
which
will
not
come
for
the
seeming
,
and
which
,
when
we
have
it
,
is
as
likely
to
lead
us
wrong
as
right
—
unless
all
beliefs
are
true
alike
;
which
sectarianism
does
not
admit
—
is
the
one
sole
means
of
salvation
,
without
which
we
are
lost
.
It
seemed
to
him
a
theory
entangled
in
contradictions
.
Faith
is
the
gift
of
God
;
no
one
can
believe
at
will
,
but
only
as
God
gives
him
grace
to
do
so
;
but
if
you
do
not
believe
you
are
damned
,
and
God
punishes
you
for
not
having
what
He
will
not
bestow
.
Again
,
you
have
to
distinguish
between
your
various
kinds
of
faith
,
and
you
must
discern
accurately
which
kind
is
sent
by
God
and
which
by
the
devil
.
No
outward
test
can
tell
you
:
for
the
Calvinist
holds
the
Romanist
in
deadly
error
;
the
Romanist
damns
the
heretic
with
no
hope
of
mercy
;
the
Anglican
talks
about
the
deadly
sin
of
dissent
;
and
not
one
of
them
all
regards
the
Unitarian
,
the
Jew
,
or
the
Pagan
,
as
in
any
sort
of
possibility
a
child
of
God
,
or
as
aught
but
a
confirmed
,
if
unconscious
,
son
of
the
devil
.
What
known
test
then
can
be
applied
to
all
these
conflicting
schools
?
To
Joshua
's
mind
,
none
;
and
the
more
he
sought
for
the
unerring
truth
—
truth
centralised
,
unified
,
focussed
—
the
less
,
it
seemed
to
him
,
he
found
it
,
and
the
more
dignity
and
grandeur
and
charity
he
felt
resided
in
the
wide
creed
of
Universalism
.
During
this
time
he
did
not
neglect
what
I
suppose
may
be
called
secular
life
.
He
attended
all
such
science-classes
as
he
had
time
for
;
and
being
naturally
quick
in
study
,
he
picked
up
a
vast
deal
of
knowledge
in
a
very
short
time
;
he
interested
himself
in
politics
,
in
current
social
questions
,
specially
those
relating
to
labour
and
capital
,
and
in
the
condition
of
the
poor
.
This
,
above
all
,
was
his
main
subject
;
and
perhaps
more
than
any
thing
else
,
the
fact
that
all
the
sects
and
denominations
he
had
searched
into
accepted
the
class
divisions
of
the
present
time
as
final
,
and
thought
that
it
was
enough
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
the
poor
—
that
is
,
to
preach
to
them
submission
and
patience
,
and
belief
that
Christ
was
God
,
and
then
leave
them
to
their
physical
wretchedness
and
social
degradation
as
to
things
that
must
be
,
and
with
which
they
must
make
themselves
content
—
had
turned
him
from
communion
with
them
,
one
and
all
.
It
was
such
a
comfortable
way
of
getting
rid
of
a
difficulty
,
he
used
to
say
.
It
was
offering
a
potential
heaven
as
a
bribe
to
induce
the
starving
and
the
down-trodden
to
be
patient
with
their
sufferings
,
and
submissive
to
the
unjust
tyranny
of
circumstances
.
It
was
shirking
the
question
of
Christian
equality
altogether
,
and
nullifying
the
whole
teaching
and
tendency
of
Christ
's
life
.
So
his
time
passed
,
and
his
thoughts
went
more
and
more
into
the
rationalistic
channel
;
till
at
last
one
evening
,
when
I
and
other
of
his
friends
were
sitting
with
him
,
he
made
his
declaration
.
“
Friends
,
”
he
said
,
“
I
have
at
last
cleared
my
mind
and
come
to
a
Belief
.
I
have
proved
to
myself
the
sole
meaning
of
Christ
;
it
is
Humanity
.
I
relinquish
the
miracles
,
the
doctrine
of
the
Atonement
,
the
doctrine
of
the
Divinity
of
Jesus
,
and
the
unelastic
finality
of
His
knowledge
.
He
was
the
product
of
His
time
;
and
if
He
went
beyond
it
in
some
things
,
He
was
only
abreast
of
it
in
others
.
His
views
of
human
life
were
oriental
;
His
images
are
drawn
from
the
autocratic
despotism
of
the
great
and
the
slavish
submission
of
the
humble
,
and
there
is
never
a
word
of
reprobation
of
these
conditions
,
as
conditions
,
only
of
the
individuals
according
to
their
desert
.
He
did
His
best
to
remedy
that
injustice
,
so
far
as
there
might
be
solace
in
thought
,
by
proclaiming
the
spiritual
equality
of
all
men
,
and
the
greater
value
of
worth
than
status
;
but
He
left
the
social
question
where
he
found
it
—
paying
tribute
even
to
Cæsar
without
reluctance
—
His
mind
not
being
ripe
to
accept
the
idea
of
a
radical
revolution
,
and
His
hands
not
strong
enough
to
accomplish
it
,
if
even
He
had
imagined
it
.
But
neither
He
nor
His
disciples
imagined
more
than
the
communism
of
their
own
sect
;
they
did
not
touch
the
throne
of
Cæsar
,
or
the
power
of
the
hereditary
irresponsible
Lord
.
Their
communism
never
aimed
at
the
equalization
of
classes
throughout
all
society
.
Hence
,
I
cannot
accept
the
beginning
of
Christian
politics
as
final
,
but
hold
that
we
have
to
carry
on
the
work
under
different
forms
.
The
modern
Christ
would
be
a
politician
.
His
aim
would
be
to
raise
the
whole
platform
of
society
,
he
would
not
try
to
make
the
poor
contented
with
a
lot
in
which
they
cannot
be
much
better
than
savages
or
brutes
.
He
would
work
at
the
destruction
of
caste
,
which
is
the
vice
at
the
root
of
all
our
creeds
and
institutions
.
He
would
not
content
himself
with
denouncing
sin
as
merely
spiritual
evil
;
he
would
go
into
its
economic
causes
,
and
destroy
the
flower
by
cutting
at
the
roots
—
poverty
and
ignorance
.
He
would
accept
the
truths
of
science
,
and
he
would
teach
that
a
man
saves
his
own
soul
best
by
helping
his
neighbour
.
That
,
indeed
,
He
did
teach
;
and
that
is
the
one
solid
foothold
I
have
.
Friends
,
Christianity
according
to
Christ
is
the
creed
of
human
progress
,
not
that
of
resignation
to
the
avoidable
miseries
of
class
;
it
is
the
confession
that
society
is
elastic
,
and
that
no
social
arrangements
are
final
;
that
morals
themselves
are
only
experimental
,
and
that
no
laws
are
divine
—
that
is
,
absolute
and
unchangeable
by
circumstance
.
It
is
the
doctrine
of
evolution
,
of
growth
;
and
just
as
Christ
was
the
starting-point
of
a
new
era
of
theological
thought
,
so
is
the
present
the
starting-point
of
a
new
era
of
social
fact
.
Let
us
then
strip
our
Christianity
of
all
the
mythology
,
the
fetichism
that
has
grown
about
it
.
Let
us
abandon
the
idolatry
with
which
we
have
obscured
the
meaning
of
the
Life
;
let
us
go
back
to
the
MAN
,
and
carry
on
His
work
in
its
essential
spirit
in
the
direction
suited
to
our
times
and
social
conditions
.
Those
of
you
who
still
cling
to
the
mystical
aspect
of
the
creed
,
and
who
prefer
to
worship
the
God
rather
than
imitate
the
Man
,
must
here
part
company
with
me
.
You
know
that
,
as
a
youth
,
I
went
deep
into
the
life
of
prayer
and
faith
;
as
a
man
,
I
have
come
out
into
the
upper
air
of
action
;
into
the
understanding
that
Christianity
is
not
a
creed
as
dogmatised
by
churches
,
but
an
organization
having
politics
for
its
means
and
the
equalization
of
classes
as
its
end
.
It
is
Communism
.
Friends
!
the
doctrine
trine
I
have
chosen
for
myself
is
Christian
Communism
—
and
my
aim
will
be
,
the
Life
after
Christ
in
the
service
of
humanity
,
without
distinction
of
persons
or
morals
.
The
Man
Jesus
is
my
master
,
and
by
His
example
I
will
walk
.
”
CHAPTER
V.
THESE
then
were
the
stages
through
which
Joshua
's
mind
had
passed
;
first
,
literal
acceptance
of
the
Word
,
which
as
he
went
on
he
found
to
be
against
the
laws
of
nature
,
and
which
therefore
he
relegated
to
the
ignorance
and
exaggeration
of
the
time
in
which
it
was
written
;
next
,
the
authority
of
the
Church
with
its
increment
of
symbolism
and
tradition
,
by
which
the
Humanity
of
Jesus
is
resolved
into
a
mystical
Appearance
of
Divinity
,
and
his
Life
made
no
longer
an
example
for
men
to
follow
but
a
dogma
to
be
worshipped
under
emblems
;
and
now
the
frank
acceptance
of
that
Humanity
alone
,
of
the
Man
as
a
teacher
,
and
of
the
Life
as
an
example
to
be
faithfully
followed
;
more
especially
in
its
tenderness
to
sinners
and
its
brotherhood
with
the
poor
and
outcast
.
It
was
an
abandonment
of
the
dead
mystical
for
the
living
real
;
but
I
doubt
if
any
single
sect
among
all
the
hundreds
into
which
the
Christianity
of
Jesus
is
shredded
,
would
have
recognised
him
as
a
brother
Christian
,
or
have
believed
that
Christ
would
do
aught
else
to
him
in
the
Last
Day
but
deny
him
as
a
“
thief
and
a
robber
.
”
And
now
Joshua
began
to
carry
out
his
programme
of
life
with
more
fixed
lines
.
He
disdained
nothing
that
could
advance
him
in
knowledge
and
intellectual
strength
:
and
I
have
often
heard
him
say
that
the
great
marvels
of
science
,
such
as
were
shown
us
in
the
lectures
to
working
men
that
we
attended
,
stirred
his
soul
to
religious
feeling
just
like
the
passion
of
prayer
.
And
what
he
knew
and
valued
for
himself
,
that
he
was
eager
to
impart
to
others
.
And
it
was
this
which
made
him
begin
his
“
night
school
,
”
where
he
got
together
all
who
would
come
,
and
tried
to
interest
them
in
some
of
the
more
taking
“
fairy
tales
of
science
,
”
as
well
as
to
teach
them
a
few
homely
truths
in
the
way
of
cleanliness
,
health
,
good
cooking
,
and
the
like
;
with
interludes
,
so
to
speak
,
of
lessons
in
morality
;
winding
up
with
a
few
simple
prayers
and
an
attempt
to
make
his
hearers
feel
the
Presence
and
the
Power
of
God
.
All
came
to
this
meeting
who
would
;
thieves
and
drunkards
,
lost
women
and
gutter-children
—
no
matter
who
:
there
was
a
kindly
welcome
for
all
;
no
preaching
at
them
for
their
sins
;
no
expression
of
spiritual
or
moral
superiority
,
but
just
the
great
loving
equality
which
does
the
degraded
so
much
good
,
and
gives
them
,
if
only
for
a
moment
,
a
flash
of
natural
self-respect
and
the
glorious
sense
of
inclusion
and
brotherhood
.
So
that
you
see
his
life
was
not
a
meagre
one
;
and
while
he
blessed
others
so
far
as
his
power
went
,
he
grew
daily
riper
in
his
own
thoughts
,
and
fuller
of
knowledge
,
and
more
clear
as
to
what
he
meant
.
We
were
very
poor
all
this
time
:
that
of
course
we
understood
we
must
be
.
We
were
accustomed
to
it
,
and
would
have
been
more
embarrassed
with
a
lot
of
surplus
money
to
spend
,
if
we
had
had
to
spend
it
on
ourselves
,
than
we
were
to
make
the
best
of
the
little
we
possessed
.
But
we
did
look
to
live
like
decent
men
,
and
not
like
savages
.
And
we
desired
the
same
for
our
order
.
Yet
how
was
that
possible
in
the
conditions
in
which
we
found
ourselves
?
And
we
were
only
two
out
of
thousands
.
We
lodged
in
a
stifling
court
,
Church-court
,
where
every
room
was
filled
as
if
cubic
inches
were
gold
,
as
indeed
they
are
to
London
house-owners
,
if
human
life
is
but
dross
.
Children
swarmed
like
rabbits
in
every
house
,
and
died
like
sheep
with
the
rot
.
It
was
sore
to
see
them
,
poor
little
,
pale
,
stunted
,
half-naked
creatures
,
playing
about
the
foul
uncleansed
pavement
of
the
court
,
from
the
reeking
gutter
of
which
they
picked
up
apple-parings
,
potato-peelings
,
fish-heads
,
and
the
like
,
which
I
have
seen
them
many
a
time
wipe
on
their
rags
and
eat
.
“
The
bronchitis
”
it
was
called
that
sent
so
many
of
them
to
the
hospital
and
the
graveyard
,
but
the
real
word
was
poverty
:
poverty
in
everything
;
in
food
,
in
clothing
,
in
care
,
in
lodging
.
It
made
one
's
heart
ache
to
see
them
—
them
and
their
parents
too
:
the
hopeless
misery
of
their
lives
and
the
moral
degradation
following
.
And
it
made
one
think
with
deep
amazement
of
what
the
wisdom
of
that
nation
could
be
which
leaves
its
riches
to
rot
in
the
gutter
for
want
of
looking
after
and
tending
;
not
to
speak
of
the
religion
,
which
contents
itself
with
building
churches
,
and
endowing
foreign
and
colonial
bishoprics
,
while
its
own
immortal
souls
perish
for
lack
of
the
Bread
of
Life
squandered
in
baskets
full
on
the
altars
to
Baal
!
Where
to
find
the
issue
?
How
to
fill
up
the
great
chasm
between
the
rich
and
the
poor
,
the
virtuous
and
the
vicious
,
the
learned
and
the
ignorant
,
the
civilised
and
the
brutish
?
“
There
is
only
one
way
out
of
it
,
”
said
a
noted
M.P.
to
Joshua
one
day
,
a
great
political
economist
and
a
strict
Malthusian
:
“
abstinence
;
if
you
wish
to
see
the
poor
raised
you
must
lighten
the
labour
market
by
bringing
fewer
labourers
into
it
.
That
is
the
first
necessity
.
Leave
off
having
children
,
live
frugally
,
and
put
by
money
,
and
as
many
of
you
can
,
emigrate
.
”
“
Is
this
not
omitting
one
important
factor
from
your
calculations
,
sir
?
”
said
Joshua
.
“
What
do
you
mean
?
”
asked
Mr.
—
“
Merely
the
human
nature
there
is
in
humanity
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Do
you
think
the
poor
have
no
instincts
?
Is
not
a
wife
or
a
husband
,
a
home
where
there
are
little
children
,
sometimes
a
day
's
pleasure
,
and
the
old
family
ties
of
father
and
mother
and
brothers
and
sisters
—
are
not
all
these
as
dear
to
them
as
to
the
rich
?
Why
should
they
be
required
to
forego
these
that
the
rich
not
be
called
upon
to
share
?
”
“
Would
you
destroy
the
existing
order
of
society
?
”
said
the
M.P.
sternly
.
“
Destroy
it
?
aye
!
root
and
branch
,
if
need
be
!
In
no
civilised
community
—
not
to
speak
of
a
Christian
one
,
if
Christianity
meant
anything
—
ought
there
to
be
such
places
as
Belgrave-square
and
Church-court
.
Keep
your
Belgrave-square
by
all
means
,
but
let
the
Church-courts
be
made
at
least
wholesome
and
decent
.
”
“
You
have
the
remedy
in
your
own
hands
,
”
said
the
M.P.
“
So
long
as
you
will
marry
on
nothing
,
spend
all
you
get
,
and
breed
paupers
,
paupers
you
must
remain
,
wallowing
in
filth
and
wretchedness
.
The
whole
question
is
as
much
a
matter
of
exact
science
as
any
other
mathematical
problem
;
and
you
are
to
blame
,
Davidson
,
that
you
do
not
abandon
your
foolish
rant
about
Christian
charity
and
human
rights
,
and
apply
yourself
to
the
only
way
out
of
the
difficulty
—
the
science
of
Political
Economy
.
”
Joshua
smiled
sadly
.
“
Political
Economy
is
not
quite
human
enough
for
us
,
sir
,
”
he
said
.
“
It
rests
too
on
the
basis
of
these
very
existing
conditions
of
society
that
I
do
not
care
for
;
I
would
rather
see
something
more
radical
,
going
straight
to
the
root
of
the
evil
.
”
“
You
are
an
enthusiast
,
”
said
the
M.P.
coldly
.
“
I
tell
you
again
,
Political
Economy
does
go
to
the
root
of
the
evil
;
and
the
only
thing
that
does
.
”
“
Then
Christianity
is
wrong
,
”
said
Joshua
.
And
the
M.P.
was
silent
.
He
had
never
confessed
himself
on
the
subject
of
religion
,
and
never
would
.
Not
his
most
intimate
friends
knew
what
he
believed
or
what
he
did
not
believe
.
All
that
the
world
saw
was
that
he
went
to
church
,
made
the
orthodox
bow
at
the
Name
in
the
Creed
,
and
wrote
books
and
pamphlets
full
of
anti-Christian
,
hard-headed
doctrines
,
without
ever
once
alluding
to
religious
dogma
.
When
he
was
called
an
infidel
by
his
foes
he
hit
out
savagely
,
and
said
,
“
Prove
it
.
”
And
no
man
could
:
only
every
man
felt
that
his
whole
teaching
,
from
first
to
last
,
was
absolutely
devoid
of
all
Christian
feeling
;
that
pity
,
charity
,
warmth
,
and
love
were
as
far
from
him
as
heaven
is
from
the
earth
;
and
that
he
squared
the
accounts
of
humanity
with
the
most
sublime
unconsciousness
that
such
disturbing
elements
as
passions
or
the
sentiment
of
rights
existed
to
upset
his
sums
and
prove
his
sociology
for
the
present
at
least
imperfect
.
And
the
result
of
the
conversation
was
,
that
Mr.
—
,
the
M.P.
,
who
is
a
worthy
man
,
upright
and
honourable
,
but
practically
one-sided
because
so
utterly
undisturbed
by
weakness
or
passions
of
any
kind
,
and
therefore
unable
to
allow
for
them
in
another
,
denounced
Joshua
as
a
mischievous
agitator
and
an
ignorant
fanatic
,
and
warned
those
of
us
whom
he
knew
to
beware
of
him
.
Yet
Mr.
—
was
as
hearty
as
Joshua
himself
in
his
desire
to
see
the
regeneration
of
the
working
class
:
but
as
Joshua
said
,
and
I
thought
said
well
too
;
“
He
advocates
our
making
ourselves
so
slender
that
we
can
slip
through
our
bands
and
fetters
,
while
I
hold
that
we
should
make
ourselves
strong
enough
to
force
those
who
hold
the
fastenings
to
loosen
them
.
We
both
mean
the
same
thing
in
the
end
,
liberty
and
social
advancement
;
but
we
differ
as
to
the
means
.
”
Our
court
was
one
of
just
ordinary
moral
character
,
neither
strictly
respectable
nor
the
reverse
.
We
had
all
sorts
;
from
the
man
who
would
harbour
a
pal
in
trouble
and
stow
away
swag
not
honestly
come
by
till
the
police
scent
grew
cold
,
to
the
decent
workman
doing
his
best
to
be
respectable
,
and
to
keep
his
girls
pure
and
his
boys
honest
;
from
the
hard
working-woman
slaving
night
and
day
to
make
her
two
poor
ends
meet
,
to
the
idle
slattern
who
was
drunk
half
her
time
,
and
begged
in
the
streets
the
other
half
;
from
the
fond
mother
with
her
pretty
pride
in
Sunday
frocks
or
bits
of
coloured
bows
,
to
the
husbandless
wench
whose
half-starved
children
,
as
naked
as
crows
and
nearly
as
black
,
were
knocked
about
as
if
they
were
street
dogs
,
and
on
the
highway
to
the
gallows
through
neglect
;
from
the
virtuous
spinster
proud
of
her
character
and
intolerant
of
looseness
,
to
the
poor
flaunting
girl
who
got
her
living
in
the
streets
,
leastwise
eked
out
her
scanty
wages
from
slopwork
and
the
like
by
prostitution
,
more
or
less
avowed
.
One
of
these
girls
lived
just
opposite
to
us
.
Her
name
was
Mary
Prinsep
.
He
had
seen
her
at
a
music-hall
we
went
to
by
times
:
for
Joshua
was
not
one
of
those
prudes
who
are
afraid
of
appearances
pearances
,
and
as
he
wanted
to
learn
the
world
on
all
sides
he
went
to
all
sorts
of
places
and
talked
to
all
sorts
of
people
—
to
these
poor
girls
,
as
well
as
to
any
one
else
,
and
just
as
he
would
to
any
one
else
;
seeking
to
know
the
causes
of
things
,
and
why
they
went
on
to
the
streets
,
and
if
they
would
keep
out
of
them
if
they
could
,
and
so
on
.
Any
one
who
knows
anything
about
us
working
men
as
we
are
and
not
by
fancy
portraits
,
knows
the
profound
contempt
,
and
more
,
in
which
as
a
class
we
hold
the
professed
prostitute
,
or
the
woman
of
our
own
homes
who
lets
herself
be
seduced
by
a
gentleman
.
A
base
child
—
nay
,
more
than
one
,
and
by
different
fathers
too
—
if
by
men
of
our
own
class
is
not
so
unpardonable
an
offence
.
We
think
it
a
pity
,
of
course
and
we
would
rather
not
have
it
happen
to
our
daughters
and
sisters
;
but
we
get
over
it
;
and
the
women
not
unfrequently
marry
,
and
marry
well
,
when
the
thing
has
blown
by
a
little
.
But
the
poor
,
painted
,
bedizened
wreck
of
womanhood
who
goes
about
the
streets
at
the
West-end
,
and
sells
herself
to
club-gentlemen
and
the
like
,
is
of
all
things
that
of
which
we
have
the
most
abhorrence
.
I
do
n't
pretend
to
explain
it
,
and
very
likely
it
is
only
a
matter
of
class
jealousy
when
all
is
said
and
done
;
but
I
mention
it
as
a
kind
of
introduction
to
what
I
have
to
say
of
Mary
Prinsep
.
I
want
it
to
be
seen
that
it
was
no
indifferentism
to
her
trade
which
actuated
Joshua
;
but
,
on
the
contrary
,
that
it
was
the
large
and
generous
humanity
in
him
which
made
him
able
to
accept
even
a
streetwalker
as
his
sister
and
his
friend
.
Mary
was
very
young
and
very
ignorant
.
She
had
been
brought
up
any
how
,
and
had
been
neglected
and
untaught
from
the
beginning
.
There
was
no
romantic
history
attached
to
her
.
She
was
no
“
soiled
dove
”
whose
feathers
had
once
been
white
and
shining
;
she
was
the
daughter
of
a
dram-drinking
charwoman
,
sent
out
to
mind
children
when
quite
a
child
herself
,
brought
up
to
no
trade
,
and
knowing
nothing
now
but
the
streets
and
the
music-halls
.
But
she
had
so
much
to
the
good
,
that
she
did
not
drink
—
at
least
not
much
—
they
all
drink
some
;
and
she
had
never
been
in
trouble
or
locked
up
.
She
was
merely
one
of
the
abandoned
—
abandoned
by
society
from
her
birth
,
and
left
to
sink
or
swim
in
the
foul
streams
of
the
metropolis
as
she
best
could
.
She
had
been
picked
up
by
a
gentleman
a
few
years
ago
when
she
was
about
fifteen
;
and
he
had
taught
her
a
good
deal
both
of
refinement
and
womanly
ways
.
She
had
been
grateful
to
him
at
the
time
,
but
she
scarcely
loved
him
.
He
was
older
than
herself
;
in
fact
,
an
old
man
comparatively
;
married
,
with
grown-up
daughters
and
sons
,
a
churchwarden
,
and
a
fine
Christian
gentleman
living
out
at
Bayswater
in
the
very
odour
of
class
respectability
.
But
he
had
an
eye
for
pretty
girls
;
and
he
had
placed
Mary
in
a
little
house
at
Bow
,
where
,
as
I
said
,
she
had
learned
some
things
that
were
useful
to
her
,
being
a
girl
of
great
natural
quickness
,
and
,
if
she
had
had
fair
play
,
of
refined
taste
and
good
disposition
.
In
time
he
got
tired
of
her
.
Such
men
always
do
:
for
what
was
there
in
an
ignorant
girl
like
to
keep
him
when
he
had
had
enough
of
her
beauty
?
So
,
making
her
a
handsome
present
—
oh
!
he
behaved
to
her
quite
handsomely
!
—
he
parted
with
her
,
and
Mary
had
to
turn
out
into
the
streets
with
a
ruined
character
and
a
taste
for
good
living
.
She
had
learned
however
,
during
her
two
or
three
years
of
“
protection
,
”
to
keep
herself
and
her
place
tidy
,
and
to
do
needlework
after
a
fashion
,
but
not
sufficiently
well
to
keep
her
.
Twelve
hours
a
day
of
slop-work
would
not
feed
,
clothe
,
and
lodge
her
;
flower-selling
would
not
;
but
her
youth
and
good
looks
would
.
So
she
sold
them
,
as
all
she
had
to
sell
;
and
got
bread
of
the
devil
's
baking
because
she
could
not
get
it
any
way
else
.
It
was
a
bad
life
;
and
she
felt
it
was
.
And
it
was
a
hard
life
too
.
Those
who
see
these
girls
only
in
their
show-hours
,
dressed
in
the
height
of
the
fashion
and
queening
it
at
night-houses
and
the
like
,
have
no
idea
of
the
wretchedness
of
the
reality
for
the
poorer
kind
;
for
there
are
classes
even
here
.
No
wonder
they
take
to
drink
,
poor
souls
,
suffering
as
they
do
—
merciful
Heaven
,
how
they
do
suffer
!
And
how
some
of
them
loathe
their
lives
as
they
go
on
,
and
go
down
,
and
wish
they
had
died
before
they
took
up
the
trade
!
Not
that
I
say
for
an
instant
they
go
moaning
about
in
eternal
agonies
of
remorse
or
horror
—
human
nature
does
not
live
at
such
high
pressure
;
but
a
lot
of
them
do
hate
their
business
nevertheless
,
when
the
drink
is
not
in
them
and
their
vanity
is
not
flattered
.
But
—
virtuous
women
will
start
at
this
—
they
look
on
themselves
,
like
all
the
poor
,
as
martyrs
to
society
.
They
think
that
,
as
men
and
things
are
,
they
must
be
;
that
they
make
the
virtuous
wife
,
the
chaste
maiden
,
possible
.
In
their
blind
way
they
are
vaguely
conscious
that
the
root
of
this
fine
flower
of
western
civilisation
,
the
rich
monogamous
Christian
home
,
is
planted
in
the
filth
of
prostitution
,
and
that
to
them
is
owing
the
“
self-restraint
,
”
so
much
admired
in
gentlemen
who
do
not
marry
until
they
can
afford
to
have
a
family
,
and
so
often
offered
as
an
example
to
us
working
men
who
love
honestly
one
of
our
own
sort
,
and
do
not
as
a
rule
go
among
these
girls
.
And
the
more
thoughtful
of
them
,
conscious
of
their
economic
uses
,
resent
the
opprobrium
dealt
out
to
them
,
and
pity
themselves
angrily
as
victims
rather
than
criminals
,
the
scapegoats
not
the
polluters
of
society
.
To
be
sure
,
they
do
not
fret
at
the
scorn
of
the
great
ladies
whom
they
help
to
keep
virtuous
,
for
they
have
their
compensations
.
Fine
ladies
think
that
because
they
would
not
brush
skirts
with
a
prostitute
,
therefore
no
one
will
,
and
that
all
life
shows
them
the
same
aspect
of
repulsion
and
horror
.
It
is
nothing
of
the
kind
.
Decent
women
of
the
poorer
class
,
consort
with
them
,
if
not
cordially
yet
humanely
;
then
they
have
friends
of
their
own
sort
,
and
many
of
them
;
and
we
know
that
a
multitude
of
evil
doers
makes
the
evil
done
seem
light
to
each
.
The
gentlemen
who
go
with
them
are
often
kind
and
playful
,
and
no
more
brutal
than
most
men
are
to
most
woman
outside
the
artificial
restraints
of
society
.
Sometimes
,
of
course
,
they
are
vile
enough
;
but
these
are
the
men
who
would
be
brutal
to
their
own
lady-wives
and
daughters
.
So
that
the
poor
Girls
,
as
they
call
themselves
,
are
not
quite
shut
out
from
all
human
sympathy
like
the
lepers
of
old
—
though
indeed
the
circle
is
terribly
narrowed
!
And
though
many
of
them
have
fits
of
self-loathing
and
regret
,
others
take
matters
more
coolly
,
and
look
on
their
profession
as
a
legitimate
trade
,
as
lawful
as
a
publican
's
who
sells
the
gin
that
robs
a
man
's
family
of
bread
,
and
makes
him
perhaps
a
murderer
as
well
as
a
madman
.
Mary
Prinsep
was
what
the
world
calls
lost
—
a
bad
girl
—
a
castaway
—
but
she
might
have
been
a
saint
for
the
natural
virtue
that
was
in
her
.
I
have
reason
to
speak
well
of
her
,
for
to
her
we
owe
the
life
of
Joshua
.
Soon
after
we
came
to
know
her
,
Joshua
fell
ill
in
our
wretched
lodgings
where
we
lived
and
did
for
ourselves
.
He
did
not
like
to
go
to
the
hospital
,
nor
did
I
like
it
for
him
.
We
both
had
a
strong
feeling
against
accepting
the
charity
of
society
;
so
I
said
he
should
not
go
,
and
that
I
would
work
harder
for
him
and
myself
too
.
But
by
my
harder
work
—
overtime
,
and
the
like
—
I
was
obliged
to
leave
him
for
twelve
hours
and
more
at
a
stretch
;
and
Mary
Prinsep
,
whose
“
friend
”
had
just
left
her
to
go
into
a
west-end
“
dress-house
,
”
poor
wench
!
came
over
and
nursed
him
,
and
kept
him
alive
.
She
it
was
who
made
up
the
fire
,
cooked
his
broths
and
messes
,
gave
him
his
medicine
,
washed
his
clothes
,
and
kept
him
clean
and
comfortable
.
And
when
I
came
home
from
work
,
and
found
her
there
,
with
everything
arranged
so
nicely
and
as
only
a
woman
can
—
Joshua
's
bed
made
and
him
settled
for
the
night
,
and
my
own
supper
ready
,
and
hot
water
for
cleaning
myself
—
for
we
had
but
one
room
between
us
—
as
one
of
the
great
family
of
the
frail
,
the
suffering
,
I
could
not
feel
anything
like
virtuous
horror
of
her
.
She
was
our
sister
—
our
sister
of
sorrow
,
of
poverty
,
of
affliction
.
Gladly
would
Joshua
have
lifted
her
out
of
her
life
into
something
purer
and
nobler
.
He
was
so
poor
himself
with
all
he
did
and
gave
away
,
he
had
much
ado
to
live
on
the
leavings
;
and
as
for
marrying
,
that
was
as
unlikely
as
murder
!
So
that
he
could
neither
put
her
into
any
way
of
business
independently
,
nor
give
her
a
home
that
the
world
would
not
misjudge
.
We
did
what
we
could
,
however
.
I
say
we
intentionally
,
as
it
makes
the
whole
thing
clear
to
those
who
are
candid
enough
not
to
wilfully
misunderstand
.
We
helped
her
all
we
could
,
and
she
helped
us
.
We
worked
for
her
food
,
while
she
gave
us
her
time
and
did
our
chores
.
And
so
in
this
way
we
made
it
unnecessary
for
her
to
continue
her
sad
trade
.
This
got
us
the
name
of
associating
with
bad
women
;
for
it
was
said
that
we
lived
partly
on
her
earnings
;
and
made
us
to
be
shyly
looked
on
by
our
shopmates
.
But
Joshua
's
mind
was
set
to
do
the
thing
that
is
right
;
and
what
men
said
against
him
,
not
understanding
facts
or
motives
,
hurt
him
no
more
than
that
dogs
should
bark
at
shadows
.
That
which
is
,
not
that
which
seems
,
nor
what
folks
choose
to
say
,
was
what
he
lived
for
;
and
Mary
Prinsep
was
only
a
text
and
an
occasion
,
like
others
.
And
even
when
,
one
day
,
the
men
fairly
hooted
him
down
and
hustled
him
into
the
street
,
and
me
along
with
him
,
because
when
he
was
chaffed
savagely
about
“
his
girl
”
he
answered
them
mildly
enough
;
“
Mates
,
did
our
great
Master
receive
Mary
Magdalene
and
all
sinners
,
or
did
He
not
?
And
if
He
did
—
as
you
may
find
for
yourselves
—
am
I
too
pure
to
help
them
?
”
—
He
only
said
to
me
,
wiping
the
mud
from
his
torn
coat
;
“
You
are
not
afraid
,
John
?
You
'll
go
on
the
right
way
,
whatever
comes
of
it
?
”
—
and
not
a
word
even
of
impatience
against
those
who
had
misused
us
,
calling
us
“
canters
,
”
“
white-livered
hypocrites
,
”
and
worse
words
still
.
No
,
I
was
not
afraid
,
I
said
.
I
would
stand
shoulder
to
shoulder
with
him
through
it
all
;
and
where
he
led
,
there
would
I
follow
,
if
we
sunk
up
to
our
very
necks
in
the
slough
of
the
world
's
reproach
.
And
we
were
not
far
off
.
CHAPTER
VI
.
AMONG
the
rest
of
the
doubtful
characters
with
which
our
court
abounded
,
was
one
Joe
Traill
,
who
had
been
in
prison
many
a
time
for
petty
larceny
and
the
like
,
but
who
,
the
last
time
he
was
had
up
,
was
convicted
of
burglary
.
However
,
he
was
out
now
on
a
ticket-of-leave
,
and
fast
going
the
way
to
get
it
cancelled
,
with
a
new
score
to
the
back
of
it
.
Respectability
and
the
police
were
bent
on
elbowing
poor
Joe
into
the
mire
,
which
was
only
too
much
his
natural
element
.
He
had
been
crotch
deep
in
the
mud
from
the
earliest
;
a
gutter
child
,
in
whose
very
blood
ran
the
hereditary
taint
;
a
thief
,
the
son
of
thieves
,
the
grandson
of
thieves
;
a
thing
of
mud
from
head
to
heel
,
inside
and
out
;
dirty
,
dissipated
,
shiftless
,
and
with
no
more
moral
principle
in
him
than
he
had
of
education
.
His
only
morality
indeed
,
was
his
cleverness
in
being
able
to
break
the
law
without
being
found
out
;
and
when
he
was
most
down
on
his
luck
,
he
was
disposed
to
think
most
meanly
of
himself
.
He
was
one
of
those
who
stink
in
the
nostrils
of
cleanly
,
civilised
society
,
and
who
are
its
shame
and
secret
sore
.
And
cleanly
,
civilised
society
,
not
being
able
to
make
a
good
job
of
him
as
he
stood
,
thrust
him
out
of
its
sight
,
and
tried
to
forget
him
behind
the
prison
grating
.
There
was
no
place
for
Joe
in
this
great
world
of
ours
.
There
was
no
work
for
him
to
do
,
because
he
could
do
none
requiring
any
of
the
deftness
got
by
practice
;
and
if
by
chance
he
got
a
job
anywhere
,
he
lost
it
mysteriously
in
a
day
or
so
;
and
,
double
as
he
might
,
he
found
the
dogs
of
detection
too
sharp
for
him
.
So
he
said
to
Joshua
one
night
in
his
blithe
way
—
poor
Joe
!
he
had
not
fibre
enough
in
him
to
take
even
his
misfortunes
seriously
!
—
that
there
was
nothing
for
him
but
the
old
line
along
with
his
pals
,
making
a
running
fight
of
it
,
now
up
now
down
,
as
his
luck
went
.
“
We
'll
see
if
something
better
wo
n't
turn
up
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Burglary
's
a
bad
trade
,
Joe
.
”
“
Only
one
I
've
got
at
my
fingers
'
ends
,
governor
,
”
laughed
the
thief
;
“
and
starvation
is
a
worse
go
than
quod
.
”
“
Well
,
till
you
've
learned
a
better
,
share
with
us
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
If
we
have
no
widow
's
cruse
—
”
“
Blowed
if
I
know
what
that
means
!
”
put
in
Joe
,
“
—
we
have
what
does
as
well
,
”
continued
Joshua
;
“
and
it
's
better
for
four
to
go
short
than
for
one
to
be
rationed
at
the
hulks
.
”
So
now
our
little
home
circle
was
increased
by
one
more
;
and
we
had
added
a
burglar
to
the
prostitute
.
“
It
is
what
Christ
would
have
done
,
”
said
Joshua
,
when
he
was
remonstrated
with
.
“
He
lived
among
the
lepers
whom
no
man
would
touch
,
and
whose
very
presence
was
pollution
.
But
he
healed
some
among
them
;
and
so
will
I
these
.
”
But
the
police
did
not
see
it
.
They
do
not
understand
practical
Christianity
in
Scotland-yard
,
save
as
a
generous
kind
of
fad
or
pastime
in
a
swell
with
more
money
than
brains
,
and
a
lot
of
idle
time
on
his
hands
.
And
then
they
laugh
at
it
behind
backs
,
and
ridicule
him
for
being
green
.
But
when
it
came
to
a
poor
journeyman
carpenter
housing
a
jail-bird
,
and
consorting
with
bad
characters
daily
,
they
had
but
one
conclusion
to
come
to
—
the
carpenter
was
no
better
than
his
company
.
Wherefore
,
“
from
information
received
,
”
Joshua
and
I
,
who
had
long
been
looked
on
askance
by
our
mates
as
I
said
,
were
called
up
before
the
master
,
and
had
our
dismissal
from
the
shop
.
His
other
men
,
he
said
,
objected
to
us
;
and
,
by
the
Lord
,
from
all
he
had
been
told
he
did
not
wonder
at
it
!
And
he
gave
us
a
caution
—
kindly
meant
,
if
harshly
said
—
not
to
keep
such
company
as
we
did
,
if
we
wanted
to
be
respected
by
master
or
mate
,
and
to
remember
that
“
birds
of
a
feather
flock
together
,
”
and
if
we
chose
such
birds
as
he
was
told
we
did
,
we
could
look
for
nothing
else
than
to
be
classed
along
,
with
them
.
On
which
he
paid
us
our
week
's
wages
,
and
we
found
ourselves
next
thing
to
penniless
in
the
wilds
of
London
.
But
Joshua
was
disturbed
.
He
told
both
Joe
and
Mary
,
on
the
evening
,
we
were
discharged
,
that
he
would
not
forsake
them
come
what
might
.
It
should
still
be
share
and
share
alike
;
only
let
them
be
of
good
courage
and
a
clean
conscience
,
and
things
would
go
well
.
How
,
nobody
knew
;
but
this
is
what
he
said
,
and
promised
.
And
Mary
,
looking
up
into
his
face
with
a
look
that
made
her
like
an
angel
—
for
indeed
she
was
a
pretty
girl
!
—
said
,
“
If
I
have
to
starve
,
Joshua
,
I
'll
never
go
back
to
the
streets
again
!
”
and
poor
Joe
,
first
laughing
,
and
then
sobbing
like
a
woman
,
said
,
“
You
'd
have
done
better
to
have
left
me
to
my
little
game
,
governor
!
I
've
brought
you
bad
luck
,
you
see
;
and
I
'm
no
good
,
you
see
,
when
you
've
done
your
best
!
”
“
Do
n't
carry
on
like
that
,
Joe
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
I
shall
have
done
something
,
if
I
save
you
both
:
and
I
will
.
”
I
could
not
help
thinking
that
this
“
I
will
,
”
said
with
such
manly
courage
,
such
deep
religious
firmness
,
was
a
greater
trial
of
faith
than
the
boyish
exaltation
in
the
Rocky
Valley
so
many
years
ago
;
and
that
to
save
from
the
streets
a
girl
who
was
not
able
to
do
anything
,
else
that
the
world
wants
,
and
to
put
honesty
and
a
clean
name
into
such
a
poor
conscienceless
waif
as
Joe
,
were
greater
deeds
than
to
cause
a
stone
to
move
out
of
its
place
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
And
all
of
us
,
his
old
Cornish
friends
who
had
come
up
to
be
near
him
,
and
some
new
friends
he
had
made
in
London
,
swore
we
would
never
desert
him
,
but
would
stand
by
him
to
the
last
.
For
we
looked
that
he
should
do
something
in
his
day
,
as
I
said
before
—
something
to
advance
the
world
,
and
towards
the
solution
of
the
great
questions
perplexing
society
at
this
moment
.
True
,
we
were
a
poor
,
moneyless
lot
—
all
working
men
,
no
science
among
us
,
no
political
power
,
no
social
status
,
no
political-economy
knowledge
of
the
right
sort
;
a
handful
of
enthusiasts
set
out
to
realise
Christ
at
one
time
by
faith
,
and
now
by
works
.
But
we
had
a
soul
among
us
—
a
leader
in
whom
we
believed
;
and
we
trusted
in
ourselves
.
And
one
by
one
we
all
got
to
work
again
somehow
,
and
floated
in
the
shallow
but
sufficient
water
to
which
we
were
accustomed
.
But
it
was
a
hard
time
;
and
,
bit
by
bit
,
everything
we
possessed
passed
over
the
pawnbroker
's
counter
,
even
to
our
tools
.
And
when
they
went
,
it
seemed
as
if
all
hope
had
gone
.
But
when
we
were
at
the
worst
,
and
things
looked
as
though
they
had
given
over
all
thought
of
mending
—
for
we
were
getting
whersh
and
weak
for
want
of
food
—
Joshua
received
a
letter
enclosing
a
five-pound
note
,
“
from
a
friend
.
”
We
never
knew
where
it
came
from
,
and
there
was
no
clue
by
which
we
could
guess
.
It
was
very
certain
that
neither
had
Mary
earned
it
in
the
old
way
,
nor
had
Joe
stolen
it
;
but
who
sent
it
remained
for
ever
a
mystery
.
I
always
thought
that
Mary
had
had
a
hand
in
it
,
and
I
think
so
to
this
day
.
I
believe
,
though
I
do
n't
know
,
that
she
borrowed
it
of
an
artist
to
whom
she
went
to
sit
for
a
model
;
for
she
did
not
make
any
secret
of
this
;
and
that
she
paid
it
back
honestly
when
we
were
in
funds
again
.
However
that
might
be
,
it
came
at
the
very
nick
of
time
;
and
immediately
after
,
both
Joshua
and
I
got
the
offer
of
a
job
at
Messrs.
—
in
Curtain-road
,
which
we
could
not
have
accepted
had
we
not
had
money
wherewith
to
take
our
tools
out
of
pawn
.
It
was
a
sharp
pinch
while
it
lasted
,
but
,
God
be
praised
,
it
passed
without
doing
real
harm
to
any
one
.
And
Joe
and
Mary
still
bided
with
us
.
By
this
time
Joshua
's
strange
doings
in
Church-court
had
got
known
to
some
of
the
gentlemen
who
practise
philanthropy
.
His
night-school
for
those
who
would
learn
either
prayer
or
secular
knowledge
of
him
—
his
charity
dinners
,
when
he
could
get
enough
money
together
to
give
them
—
his
goodness
to
the
children
,
to
the
lost
,
to
the
starving
—
all
this
had
got
wind
;
and
just
as
he
wanted
help
most
,
the
news
of
his
doings
brought
him
the
famous
Mr.
C
.
anxious
to
know
how
a
man
like
him
could
carry
on
charities
,
apparently
on
nothing
,
which
cost
himself
a
large
income
to
keep
up
.
He
was
a
good
man
,
this
Mr.
C
.
;
up
to
his
lights
,
none
better
;
but
his
lights
were
few
and
feeble
,
and
he
drew
a
line
hard
and
fast
where
Joshua
did
not
.
His
line
was
respectability
.
He
distinctly
refused
to
aid
those
who
were
hopeless
paupers
,
or
those
of
bad
repute
.
He
would
help
respectable
poverty
,
and
help
it
substantially
though
always
afraid
of
overdoing
it
and
inducing
a
habit
of
reliance
on
extraneous
aid
;
but
beasted
,
shiftless
,
drunken
poverty
—
poverty
that
lied
and
whined
and
drank
gin
and
got
relief
from
half-a-dozen
charities
at
once
—
poverty
that
was
its
own
cause
and
that
never
stirred
a
hand
to
help
itself
—
for
this
he
had
no
pity
,
and
to
it
gave
no
help
.
“
To
encourage
pauperism
”
and
“
to
offer
a
premium
for
vice
”
were
the
two
things
of
which
he
was
most
afraid
in
his
dealings
with
the
poor
;
but
he
held
out
a
helping
hand
gladly
enough
to
the
“
deserving
”
and
the
“
respectable
”
poor
,
and
he
was
a
warm
patron
of
reformatories
,
refuges
for
soiled
doves
,
and
the
like
half-punitive
places
of
retreat
for
sinful
flesh
,
where
they
might
repent
of
their
evil
past
,
and
be
made
fit
to
take
up
a
lowly
place
among
the
respectable
members
of
society
once
more
;
—
but
always
,
in
a
sense
,
a
place
of
humiliation
and
penitent
degradation
.
As
he
came
along
at
this
time
,
