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Title: Abraham Lincoln and religion
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sunday schools Presidents Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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hegalleries of the low theatres. They are familiar withevery form of wickedness and crime. As they growup they swell the ranks of the dangerous classes. Ourthieves, burglars, robbers, rioters, who are the mostnotorious, are young persons of foreign parentage, be-tween ten and seventeen years of age. The degradedwomen who tramp the streets in the viler parts ofthe city, who fill the low dance houses, and wait andtend in low drinking-saloons, graduate in this vilelocality. Over a thousand young girls, between theages of twelve and eighteen, can be found in the WaterStreet drinking-saloons. To this same character anddoom these forty thousand children are hastening.All around this Mission, children can be seen whocome up daily from the brothels and dens of infamywhich they call their homes, where women and men,black and white, herd together, and where childhood istrained up, by daily beatings and scanty fare, to crueltyand blasphemy. To rescue them, this Mission Home ; j IV I II:! II Kill
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