All the surface remedies proposed and adopted by the city council and the churches and the benevolent societies had not touched the problem.

The mills were going on part time.

Thousands of men yet lingered in the place hoping to get work.

Even if the mills had been running as usual that would not have diminished one particle of the sin and vice and drunkenness that saturated the place.

And as Philip studied the matter with brain and soul he came to a conclusion regarding the duty of the church.