It is best strictly to enforce fulfillment of all such duties as payment of rent, etc.
It is far better to give work than either money or goods.
It is most helpful of all to strengthen by sympathy and counsel the energetic effort which shall bear fruit in time to come.
It is essential to remember that each man has his own view of his life, and must be free to fulfill it; that in many ways he is a far better judge of it than we, as he has lived through and felt what we have only seen. Our work is rather to bring him to the point of considering, and to the spirit of judging rightly, than to consider or judge for him.
The poor of London (as of all large towns) need the development of every power which can open to them noble sources of joy.
FOOTNOTE:
[3] The ultimate step taken to enforce payment of rent is to send in a broker to distrain.