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HOUSE OF REFUGE AND SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY (Boys) [Aberdeen] House of Refuge etc School of Industry (Boys)
House of Refuge etc School of Industry (Boys)
House of Refuge etc School of Industry (Boys)
Name on door of house
Annual Reports & Accounts &c
Mr Reid Superintendent
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House of Refuge & School of Industry - An abode where no reproaches shall assail the ear of the self-Condemned at that moment of lamentable transition, when the penitent delinquent is so often thrown down from his higher resolves, by the natural distrust of those who only knew him by his former aggressions on Society A place wherein to bring the wretched, and the ignorant, and the idle, at once, without parley, but also without force, into contact with habits and motives of a better impulse. To give them once more an oppertunity, with all the
concomitants of persuasion and the inducement of a fostered self-respect, to choose between the present rewards of virtuous industry, and the agonizing consequences of dissolute idleness, And more especially, a place wherein shall be proclaimed. to those who are at enmity with God. and children of his wrath, the glad tidings of Christ's pacification, to guide the footsteps of the benighted wanderer into the paths of life and peace. The pesent number of boys under warrant Committed for the term of five years and for their first offence is 29 and the total number of boys attending School and otherways engaged is 92 -

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