Section 3.— SOME ADVANTAGES STATED.
This Scheme takes into its embrace all kinds and classes of men who may be in destitute circumstances, irrespective of their character or conduct, and charges itself with supplying at once their temporal needs ; and then aims at placing them in a permanent position of comparative comfort, the only stipulation made being a willingness to work and to contorm to discipline on the part of those receiving its benefit.
While at the commencement, we must impose some limits with respect to age and sickness, we hope, when fairly at work, to be able to dispense with even these restrictions, and to receive an}' unfortunate individual who has only his misery to recommend him and an honest desire to get out of it.
It will be seen that, in this respect, the Scheme stands head and shoulders above any plan that has ever been mooted before, seeing that nearly all the other charitable and remedial proposals more or less confess their utter inability to benefit any but what they term the "decent" working man.
This Scheme seek.3 out by all manner of agencies, marvellously adapted for the task, the classes whose welfare it contemplates,, and, by varied measures and motives adapted to their circumstances, compels them to accept its benefits.
Our Plan contemplates nothing short of revolutionising the: character of those whose faults are the reason for their destitution. We have seen that with fully fifty per cent, of these their own evil conduct is the cause of their wretchedness. To stop short with them of anything less than a real change of heart will be to invite and ensure failure. But this we are confident of effecting— anyway, in the great majority of cases, by reasonings and persuasions, concerning both earthly and heavenly advantages, by the power of man, and by the power of God.