My work here has been a failure, anyway." "What! A failure?
Mr.Strong, you don't know the facts.

There has never been a minister in Milton who did so much for the poor and the working-man as yourself! Let me tell you," the man continued, with an earnestness that concealed an emotion he was trying to subdue, "Mr.
Strong, if you were to leave Milton now, it would be a greater loss to the common people than you can imagine.

You may not know it, but your influence among us is very great.

I have lived in Milton as boy and man for thirty years, and I never knew so many laboring-men attend church and the lectures in the hall as during the few months you have been here.

Your work here has not been a failure; it has been a great success." A tear stole out of Philip's eye and rolled down and fell with a warm splash on the letter which lay beside him.