Pride helped us a good deal in the beginning, sir.

I was ashamed not to have my children looking as clean as my neighbors, and ashamed not to keep things neat and tidy-like.

I didn't care anything about it in Briar street.' "I give you this instance, true in nearly every particular," said the missionary, "in order to show you how incurable is the evil condition of the people here; unless we can get the burning brands apart, they help to consume each other." "But how to get them apart?
that is the difficult question," said Mr.
Dinneford.
"There are two ways," was replied--"by forcing the human brands apart, and by interposing incombustible things between them.

As we have no authority to apply force, and no means at hand for its exercise if we had the authority, our work has been in the other direction.

We have been trying to get in among these burning brands elements that would stand the fire, and, so lessen the ardor of combustion." "How are you doing this ?" "By getting better houses for the people to live in.