If any woman will contrast those dens with her own home, she will, if Christ is a power in her heart, stand in horror before such a travesty on the sacred thought of honor.

The destitution of the neighborhood is alarming.

The number of men out of work is dangerous.

The complete removal of all sympathy between the Church up here on this street, and the tenement district is sadder than death.

O my beloved!"-- Philip stretched out his arms and uttered a cry that rang in the ears of those who heard it and remained with some of them a memory for years--"these things ought not so to be! Where is the Christ spirit with us?
Have we not sat in our comfortable houses and eaten our pleasant food and dressed in the finest clothing and gone to amusements and entertainments without number, while God's poor have shivered on the streets, and his sinful ones have sneered at Christianity as they have walked by our church doors?
"It is true we have given money to charitable causes.