Many of the richer of his parishioners had been down in parties late at night to look at it, and the ladies of his congregation were joined together into all sorts of guilds and societies and bands of endeavour for stamping it out and driving it under or putting it into jail till it surrendered.
But the slums lay outside the rector's parish.

He had no right to interfere.

They were under the charge of a special mission or auxiliary, a remnant of the St.Asaph's of the past, placed under the care of a divinity student, at four hundred dollars per annum.

His charge included all the slums and three police courts and two music halls and the City jail.

One Sunday afternoon in every three months the rector and several ladies went down and sang hymns for him in his mission-house.