They would come out to hear you." "Well, that would be something, to be sure," replied Philip, smiling.
"But as to the wisdom of my plan--how does it strike you on the whole ?" "I would like to see it done.

I don't believe I shall, though." "Why ?" "Your church won't agree to it." "Maybe they will in time." "I hope they will.

And yet let me tell you, Mr.Strong, if you succeeded in getting your church and people to come into the tenement district, you would find plenty of people there who wouldn't go hear you." "I suppose that is so.

But oh, that we might do something!" Philip clasped his hand over his knee and gazed earnestly at the man opposite.
The man returned the gaze almost as earnestly.

It was the personification of the Church confronting the laboring man, each in a certain way asking the other, "What will the Church do ?" And it was a noticeable fact that the minister's look revealed more doubt and anxiety than the other man's look, which contained more or less of indifference and distrust.