St.
Asaph's was a brilliant success; St.Osoph's was a failure.

Even its own trustees couldn't deny it.

At a time when St.Asaph's was not only paying its interest but showing a handsome surplus on everything it undertook, the church of St.Osoph was moving steadily backwards.
There was no doubt, of course, as to the cause.

Everybody knew it.

It was simply a question of men, and, as everybody said, one had only to compare the two men conducting the churches to see why one succeeded and the other failed.
The Reverend Edward Fareforth Furlong of St.Asaph's was a man who threw his whole energy into his parish work.