Week-night services and hymn-singing and preaching.
A cold, desolate affair altogether. I'm thankful I went in there,
though, for it's given me an idea."
Yes?
"I'm going to start a mission myself."
"Go on."
"On a new principle. The first thing will be that there will be no
religious services whatever. I won't have a clergyman connected with
it. It will be intended solely for the benefit of the people from a
temporal point of view."
"You are going a long way," she said. "What about Sundays?"
"There will be a very short service for the mission helpers only. No
one will be asked from outside at all. If they come it will be as a
favour. Directly it is over the usual week-day procedure will go on.
"And what is that to be?"
Brooks smiled a little doubtfully.
"Well," he said, "I've got the main idea in my head, but all the details
want thinking out. I want the place to be a sort of help bureau, to
give the people living in a certain street or couple of streets
somewhere to go for advice and help in cases of emergency. There will
be no money given away, under any consideration--only food, clothing,
and, if they are asked for, books.
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