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The Soup Kitchen School was opened in order to get begging
children off the streets.
The "success
which has attended the soup Kitchen School, and the unprecedented movement of
the Working Classes in aid of the Institution, ought to stimulate all to exert
themselves for the promotion of the interests of our Juvenile Poor, by affording
them the necessaries of life, instructing them in sound knowledge, and training
them to habits of industry, in order to raise them in the scale of humanity,
place them in the way of earning an honest livelihood, fit them for the duties
of civilized life, and prepare them for the joys of eternity" (Minutes of
Meeting 1846, p.3).
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