so shall continue to aim at the hea

so shall continue to aim at the heart .I still the uttermost disappointment unless that citadel is reached .In proposing to add one more to the methods I have already put into operation to this end ,do not let it be supposed that I am the less dependent upon the old plans or that I seek anything short of the old conquest .If we help the man it is in order that we may change him .The builder who should elaborate his design and erect his house and risk his reputation without burning his bricks would be pronounced a failure and a fool .Perfection of architectural beauty ,unlimited expenditure of capital ,unfailing watchfulness of his labourers ,would avail him nothing if the bricks were merely unkilned clay .Let him kindle a fire .And so here I see the folly of hoping to accomplish anything abiding ,either in the circumstances or the morals of these hopeless classes ,except there be a change effected in the whole man as well as in surroundings . To this everything I hope to attempt will tend .In many cases I shall succeed ,in some I shall fail ;but even in failing of this my ultimate design ,I shall at least benefit the bodies ,if not the souls ,of men ; and if I do not save the fathers ,I shall make a better chance for the children