I have great faith in the membership of almost any church in this country to accomplish wonderful things for humanity.
And I am going to Milton with that faith very strong in me.

I feel as if a very great work could be done there.

Think of it, Alfred! A town of fifty thousand working men, half of them foreigners, a town with more than sixty saloons in full blast, a town with seven churches of many different denominations all situated on one street, and that street the most fashionable in the place, a town where the police records show an amount of crime and depravity almost unparalleled in municipal annals--surely such a place presents an opportunity for the true Church of Christ to do some splendid work.

I hope I do not over-estimate the needs of the place.

I have known the general condition of things in Milton ever since you and I did our summer work in the neighboring town of Clifton.