At last they had flowed as a relief to his burden, and he gave the people his message with a courage and a peace and a love born of direct communion with the Spirit of Truth.
As he went on, people began to listen in amazement.

He had begun by giving them a statement of facts concerning the sinful, needy, desperate condition of life in the place.

He then rapidly sketched the contrast between the surroundings of the Christian and the non-Christian people, between the working-men and the church-members.

He stated what was the fact in regard to the unemployed and the vicious and the ignorant and the suffering.

And then with his heart flinging itself out among the people, he spoke the words which aroused the most intense astonishment: "Disciples of Jesus," he exclaimed, "the time has come when our Master demands of us some token of our discipleship greater than the giving of a little money or the giving of a little work and time to the salvation of the great problem of modern society and of our own city.