The only agency which has been able to effect a reclamation and improvement of these tribes is the Salvation Army, which, by general consent, even of those who have no sympathy with its particular religious views, has achieved wonderful results.

There is no doubt, too, that some of the worst parts of certain seaports in our own country have been vastly improved by the same agency.

This has been done by a definite appeal made on religious grounds, and those who have made it have been inspired by religious motives.

It required, however, a body which had peculiar methods of its own to do it.

The basis of the action, also, of such organisations as the Church Army and the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations is definitely religious, and the vigorous and successful way in which their work has been carried on by such associations is due mainly to the influence of religion.