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Title: Street Arabs and gutter snipes. The pathetic and humorous side of young vagabond life in the great cities, with records of work for their reclamation
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Needham, Geo. C. (George Carter), 1840-1902
Subjects: Child welfare Poor
Publisher: Boston : D. L. Guernsey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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dence to one commanded by a good captain,and which had a German missionary on board. This faithfulman took a loving interest in the poor heathen lads, andbegan at once to give them some instruction. He furnishedthem with Kaffir Testaments, and began to teach them toread. At first it struck them as an absurd and stupid processaltogether ; but when they got a notion of the result attain-able, their ardor knew no bounds. To learn became thedearest wish of their heart; and they were soon able tomake out their Testaments. From the first their heartsseem to have been attracted by the idea of a God of love,and of a human-divine Saviour. O, my dear friends,Charlie would say, you know about God, and I know now!He is kind, he does not want to hurt us ; he is very, verygood, he loves us. Africa man no think about God at all;he pray to serpent, but sometime when it thunder very loud,up in sky, then he frightened, and he say, Ah! now God upthere ! God ! he very wicked man ! he want to kill us all.
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COME UNTO ME. TEA NS FORMA TI0N8. 359 But he no pray to him even then ; he do so (imitating thestrange, fierce, defiant, horrid noises and gestures directed bythese poor heathen against the mighty thunderer, of whomthey have no other conception than of a malicious enemy). Africa man not like God; he pray very much to serpent tohelp him stop the thunder, or make him well, or keep hisfather or his child from dying. And then he would intonea strange, weird, monotonous chant, whose tones were full ofthe most abject supplication, and the gestures accompanyingwhich were intensely expressive of real fear and humbleworship, the address or prayer to the serpent which is poorAfricas only God. One felt inclined to weep at the thoughtof myriads of fine, intelligent men, thus deluded by thedevil into defiance and distrust of the great and good God,and into real, slavish terror and veneration of a vile reptile !The German missionarys instruction roused in these poorKaffir lads a thirst after the kn

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