The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People.

The excitement was great when Lord Shaftesbury announced that the 'Man with the Book,' who wrote 'Crape on the Whip' would first address them. —See Page 259.
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AUTHOR OF ROUND THE TOWER, A THOUGHT FOR THE WORLD, ETC., ETC.
Oh, blest the land, the city blest, Where Christ the Ruler is confest! Oh, happy hearts and happy homes, To whom this King in triumph comes.
Weiszel.
INTRODUCTION BY THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, K.G. TENTH THOUSAND, ENLARGED. LONDON: S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO., 9, PATERNOSTER ROW. Edinburgh & Glasgow: J. MENZIES & CO. Dublin: GEORGE HERBERT. Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. To His Beloved Wife AND UNWEARIED HELPER IN CHRISTIAN EFFORT THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY The Author.
TO all who desire to obtain an accurate knowledge of the inner life of London, and probably of all our large towns, and would ascertain, by studying the results of experience, the best mode of grappling with its evils, the following pages will be deeply interesting. They give the history and fruits of many years' labour among the most filthy, destitute, and degraded classes of the whole Metropolis. Yet these classes are by no means the most hopeless. A grand aggressive movement of Christianity against those strongholds of vice, disease, and misery, would end in a larger victory than in one of equal vigour against the obstinacy and self-satisfaction of the great body of the skilled artisans.
The publication of such papers is very important in these days, when inquiry and discussion are busy to discover the true secret of what is required at the present crisis for dealing with the vast masses of the people. So far as I can see, they have as yet reached no other conclusion (whether it be avowed or not) than that all existing arrangements and organizations, singly and collectively, are inadequate to the task. The Established Church, by itself, is feeble; the Non-conformists still more so. The two, working together in harmony, might attain some happy issues; but, even on the supposition of their cordial union, a new machinery must be devised, as an adjunct to all our actual systems of operation.