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Overcrowding, bad housing, unemployment, poverty and disease were rife. An outbreak of cholera killed more than 3, people, leaving families destitute. View all reading worksheets. View all writing worksheets. Dramatic Irony Cacophony Anaphora Setting. View all literature worksheets.
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View all Seasonal worksheets. View all mammal worksheets. It was during this period, on 26th August , that he underwent a Christian conversion during a religious revival that was sweeping the country. Soon afterwards, he joined the evangelical Plymouth Brethren movement, then decided to become a candidate for missionary work in China. In , he moved to London to pursue his application for this scheme and to begin studies as a medical student.
He also saw at first hand the effects of a cholera epidemic in the area which killed more than three thousand people and devastated countless families. Being judged as unready for the China mission, and unable to register for study at the London Hospital until the autumn of , he made contact with local Plymouth Brethren and began preaching in the streets of Stepney. He also started to teach at the Ernest Street ragged school and the success of his work soon led to his becoming its superintendent though he fell out with the school's committee and left with the aim of opening his own establishment.
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