One night it was reasons why the mill-men were not in the church.

Another night it was the demand of men for better houses, and how to get them.

Another night it was the subject of strikes and the attitude of Christ on wages and the relative value of the wage-earners' product and the capitalists' intelligence.

At each meeting he allowed one or two of the invited leaders to take the platform and say very plainly what to his mind was the cause and what the remedy for the poverty and crime and suffering of the world.

Then he closed the evening's discussion by a calm, clear statement of what was to him the direct application of Jesus' teaching to the point at issue.
Finally, as this series drew to a close at the end of the month, a subject came up which roused intense feeling.