His study of the whole question led him to the conviction that one of the great needs of the place was a new home life for the people.
The tenements were owned and rented by men of wealth and influence.

Many of these men were in the church.

Discouraged as he had so often been in his endeavor to get the moneyed men of the congregation to consecrate their property to Christian uses, Philip came up to that first Sunday with a new phase of the same great subject which pressed so hard for utterance that he could not keep it back.
As he faced the church this morning he faced an audience composed of very conflicting elements.

Representatives of labor were conspicuous in the galleries.

People whom he had assisted at one time and another were scattered through the house, mostly in the back seats under the choir gallery.