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earlier days of the Saviour. For His sake did father and mother undertake long and perilous journeys; and deep must have been the anguish which wrung their "sorrowing" hearts during the few days He escaped their vigilant attention. All this may be, it is true, regarded as the result of mere natural affection. But well would it be for society, were very much of its juvenile population blessed even with such instinctive regards. In almost all our criminal statistics, one of the main causes of juvenile delinquency is set down as belonging to the parental desertion of children, as well as the cruel and unnatural treatment of the instruments of their being. Idle and dissipated parents not unfrequently cast their offspring upon the world, leaving them to become the bjects either of parochial relief, or the victims 84150 ensnaring vice. For some of this forsaken On Ind helpless class, there is the poorhouse, and of it, the