And in the face of these plain facts, which no one can dispute, there is a duty before these churches on this street which cannot be evaded without denying the very purpose of a church.

It is that duty which I am now going to urge upon this Calvary Church.
"It has been said by some of the ministers and members of the churches that we might combine in an effort and build a large and commodious mission in the tenement district.

But that, to my mind, would not settle the problem at all, as it should be settled.

It is an easy and a lazy thing for church-members to put their hands in their pockets and say to a few other church-members, 'We will help build a mission, if you will run it after it is up; we will attend our church up-town here, while the mission is worked for the poor people down there.' That is not what will meet the needs of the situation.

What that part of Milton needs is the Church of Christ in its members--the whole Church, on the largest possible scale.