The Harleian Dairy System, and an Account of the Various Methods of Dairy Husbandry Pursued by the Dutch. Also a New and Improved Mode of Ventilating Stables. with an Appendix  (English, Paperback, Harley William)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. VIII. It has been suggested by those to whom the Author submitted particulars of his various undertakings, as embodied in the Introduction to this work, that no mention had been made of one public effort which had cost much application to accomplish. Without intending to obtrude any matters upon the reader which may be deemed irrelevant to the ostensible character of the present work, the Author hopes he shall be excused by his patrons generally for bowing with deference to the well-meaning counsel of intelligent friends, and publish, in this place, a brief sketch of an endeavour anxiously pursued, at one period. of his life, to improve the moral condition of the lower classes of the Glasgow community. Before the existence of a Police Establishment in Glasgow it was usual for the citizens, in rotation, to patrol the streets nightly. In the Author's turn to perform that duty, it constantly occurred to him to be a witness of such deplorable scenes of vice and depravity as to impress upon him the conviction that if some feasible plan were devised, and followed up with resolution of purpose, much of this dissoluteness might be reclaimed. With a view to attain this desirable end, and with the co-operation of others in advice and assistance, a number of Sabbath schools were opened in the city and neighbourhood for imparting religious instruction to the children of the poor; the Author's clerk keeping an account of the number of schools, scholars in each, books distributed, andc. Though the Author exercised a general superintendance over these schools, his principal attention was directed to the one formed in the Merchants' Hall, Bridgegate Street, where, as well as in the vicinity, the shoals of neglected children might be compared to so many lambs in the midst of wolves...