been

enlisted from the great congregations

that nightly thronged the dress circle

and area space of the theatre. What a

sight was that congregation ! Scores of

young men were, there whose energies are

thundering along the wrong track. The

vision of that misdirected life, tainted

with wicked tendency, so young and so

heedless, so buoyant with enthusiasm,

and so difficult to influence, haunts us

still. Old men, grown grey in sin, were

there. The young woman, whose vision of

innocence is behind her,'Selling

'Selling her soul to whoever1 would buy,

; Dealing in shame for a morsel' of

bread, . . Hating the living and fearing

the dead.' She