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London’s Underworld

CHAPTER II
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Now add to your virtues, hope! For you have need of it, and you have cause for it.

I rejoice that so many of you are personally known to me! You and I, my sisters, have had much communion, and many happy times together; for sometimes we have had surcease from toil and a breath of God's fresh air together.
Be hopeful! endure a little longer; for a new spirit walks this old world to bless it, and to right your long-continued wrongs.
Oh! how you have suffered, sisters mine! and while I have been writing this chapter you have all been around me.

But you are the salt of the underworld; you are much better than the ten just men that were not found in Sodom.

And when for the underworld the day of redemption arrives, it will be you, my sisters, the simple, the suffering, enduring women that will have hastened it! So I dwell upon the good that is in the netherworld, in the sure and certain hope, whether my feeble words and life help forward the time or not, that the day is not far distant when the dead shall rise! When justice, light and sweetness will prevail, and in prevailing will purify the unexplored depths of the sad underworld.
I offer no apology for inserting the following selections from London County Council proceedings.

Neither do I make any comment, other than to say that the statements made present matters in a much too favourable light.
"LONDON'S CHILD SLAVES "OVERWORK AND BAD NUTRITION "Disclosures in L.C.C.


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