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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: pure air and sights and sounds of the country. There is much talk
about the beneficial influence of pictures, music and literature upon
the multitudes. Money, like water, is being poured forth to supply
such attractions in Museums, People's Palaces, and the like, for the
edification and amelioration of the social condition of the masses.
But "God made the country, man made the town," and if we take the
people to the pictures of divine manufacture, that must be the superior
plan.
Again, the Scheme is capable of illimitable application. The plaister
can be made as large as the wound. The wound is certainly a very
extensive one, and it seems at first sight almost ridiculous for any
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