To the edge of the tenement houses farthest from our own church building it is a mile and three-quarters.

And within that entire district, measuring nearly two by three miles, there is not a church building.

There are two feeble mission-schools, which are held in plain, unattractive halls, where every Sunday a handful of children meet; but nothing practically is being done by the Church of Christ in this place to give the people in that part of the town the privileges and power of the life of Christ, the life more abundantly.

The houses down there are of the cheapest description.

The people who come out of them are far from well-dressed.
The streets and alleys are dirty and ill-smelling.