The sun., 1883-12-23
PAINTING OUTCAST LONDON.
A 7ERRTBL FLOOD or SIN AND MISERY
IN THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS.
sixty Year. Ola aud Never In n Church-TIow
the Outcs.ts Liye-Their W Wrrtchrd Homes
Work for Christian Men ind Women. %.


From the Report Of me london Congregational, Union.
1t is perhaps scarcely necessary to say OF
the hundreds of thousands in outcast London
very fow attend any place of Worship Out Of
1880 persons living in consecutive houses Mt
Bow Common only 80 adults and AZ children
ever attend. and us ca OF these arc connected
with one mission hall. only "a out OF the entire
number worship elsewhere. Ono street off
Leicester square contains 246 families, and
only Ia OF these arc ever represented ut the
house OF God In another street In Pentonville.
on. OF 100 families only IL persons attend any
sanctuary while the number OF attendants in
one district Of st. George's-in-the East is 80
persons out OF 4.235. Constantly We come
across persons who have never been to church
or chapel for twenty years. twenty eight years.
more than thirty years: and some persons as
old as GA never remember having been In a
place OF worship at oil. Indeed with the ex-
ception OF very small proportion. tho idea Of
going has never daynsd upon these people:
ception OF what these pestiIential human rock,
cries are. where tens OF thousands arc crowded
we have heard OF the middle passage OF the slave
ship. To get into them YOU have to penetrate
gases arising from accumuiations OF sewage
and refuse scattered in all directions and often
them which the sun never pene,rates. which
nIe never visited by breath of fresh air. and
cleansing water You have to ascend rotton
stnrcases. which threaten to give way beneath
ready broken down. leaving gaps tia! impcr
the limbs and lives OF the unwary. You hhve
to with HSons DARK n ;ny
are not driven back by the intolerable stencil
Ssn % TO %b hs Sns dSns IN m
to The for WHOM Christ died herd
who sleep undcr ra way arches. in carts or
casks. or under any shelter which they can find
IN the open air You will see that they arc to
he envied in comparison with those whose lot
Eight feet sauare-that is about tho average
ceiling are black with tho accrctions OF tlth
which have gathered upon them through long
years OF neglect II Is exuding through cracks
walls; i is eyeryWhers; What GOES BY the
or covered by boards to keen, out wind and
rain; the rest is so begrimed and obscured that
side. Should you have ascended to the attic
where at least some approach to fresh air might
dows. you look out upon the roofs aud lodges OF
lower tenements. and discover that the sickly
pass over over the pn,refyins eareasses Of dead cats
or birds. or viler denominations still You
r@ss Of s os or
fragment of table; but more commonly you
T nd rude az , substitntss for these things hxisI in
an old hamper or box turned upside down. or
nothing but rubbish and rags. ,
ment houses family, often two, In one cellar
sanni,ary inspectG2r reports 1 nding dim father
nno,hsr i room room, a missionary .y found a man iii
with s.pa-poy, his wife Just recovering from
ming about half naked and covered with dirt.
Here are seven people living in , one % under,
the same room. Elsewhere are a poor widow.
her three children. and child who has been
caJmnn had shortly before committed suicide.
Here lives widow and her SIX children. in,
son Of one A. hnhsr "a ar"r"nt 0 nn
father, mother anI sig Children. two q whom
with sss In asohsr Rsars 1s
s Hsns live mahea sS and who s'ep snr@s
moral purposes until long after midnight
elsewhere. WheTe thers are beds they ar,
ma res. any upon the llthy boards ~,
couple for %. 3D. per week. In many ease.
cupations followed by those who dwell in thes,
haoitations. Here you are choked as A you ents
1aous i fur pull pulled from m the skins Of rabbits
.ats. dogs and other M animals In m their o prepara
Of drying match boxes. s mnsins with oths
sickly odors. overpowers you; or It may be thu
on Tie prsvous s day m and kept IN the room ON oys
night. Even whenit,is possible to do 30. thu
pew%pl. people. seid"m oren zen their windows; ,, 49,. ,o
ySnd the means Of many who wander aboa
all day. NJ picking up D,,a a living % as they can can
fa the ,nnS 1''qSS Ssns n tha
abound These are often Of En- the resorts
some are kept by receivers OF stolen goods. 1
the, kitchen mon and women may be seal
loliing about smoking and gambling. In tn
sleeping room are long rows Of beds on eac
In many c"s"s both @ ssxes e are " Moved d"e to h"r
together without any att"mpt to preserve th
depth still. Hundreds cannot even scrap
together the two pence reqnired to secnr
terng common sleeping rooms. and so the
hnddle together q upon the sin stairs "a and andne
Often is the family Of an honest working ma
in the houses whore they live their rooms Al
frequently side 10y side; and continual oonta'
OF our jaiis is q matter OF necessity
Imm"ray is hn, the nGiIrsl ,s oute%mS 3 ~
men living t tcrethsr % in I'll these e o. ro"keries @ Al a,
HahGhv and Snpax w e"Sss Nssody sm
pects that they are. In axc"ptiopa eases on
could your question be answered in the nff
Vse and sensty s ssss sarnrse na % or it rac
attention. Thos" who appear to he marie
are are often a separad by r msrG quarrel an
ships immediately one man was pointed o, o,
whofor some years had lived with woman, u
mother Of his three children. She died and
less than IA week hc had taken another woma
IN her place man was living will a woma
In the low district called " The Mint" He wei
out one morning with another man for no IN
p9so OF committing II burglary. and By th
other man was murdered The murderer r.
turned. saying that his companion had bee
SG,, SauEht "a and taken away to prison and M th9 sun
The only check upon communism IN this r
gard Is lealor7y ap not vi yr iS Tns VIII"
ter-of-fact Indifference.
Tho low purts ot London are the sink in
which the filthy and nbomnnhe from all par
q tho county seem 10 flow. Entirr, courts q
filled with thieves. prostitutes. and lib"rat'
convcts. In ono street arr 10 houses. 81
which ara known 10 be hrOtaels In Apoth
district are i3 ~ these hou-"s. and 1913 fall'
women and girls. many Of them not more th'
~ years of age. A nelghhorhnod. who's" pop
laton II returned nj lO.lOU. contains 400 vi
follow this immoral tranlc. their ages Naryli
from - 10 80; and Of the moral degradation
the peopl" some idea may be formed from
incident which was brought 10 our notice. a
East End missionary rescued u young girl fro
n IN m ia nd tai farn nprn n Q N