Excerpt from Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society by the Executive Committee, 1888-89 Attitude and on the part of our clergy and parishes any feeling that the results accomplished are sufiicient to satisfy them, and relieve them from all anxietv. Work so largely institutional as ours has its depress ing side, and is proverbially hard to justify in tables that will show whether human souls have been helped or saved. But we still believe that good work is being done to-day, and we pray that God may arouse the Church to a sense of shame that its heavy responsibilities should be so lightly carried. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.