The church and the slum; . it difficult to decide, one of them said, 66 THE CHURCH AND THE SLUM ^Xets toss up/^ which they did. Central Hallwon. This is only a sample of what is happen-ing every week. There are seven halls in all connected withthe Liverpool Wesleyan Mission, and theyare, for the most part, in the poorest neigh-borhoods of the city. Mr. Jackson has threeassistant preachers, three deaconesses, andseventeen local preachers, and all are class meeting is a most successful agencyhere. There are over fourteen hundred regu-lar attendants in class every week. ^^AU ourpeople lo
The church and the slum; . it difficult to decide, one of them said, 66 THE CHURCH AND THE SLUM ^Xets toss up/^ which they did. Central Hallwon. This is only a sample of what is happen-ing every week. There are seven halls in all connected withthe Liverpool Wesleyan Mission, and theyare, for the most part, in the poorest neigh-borhoods of the city. Mr. Jackson has threeassistant preachers, three deaconesses, andseventeen local preachers, and all are class meeting is a most successful agencyhere. There are over fourteen hundred regu-lar attendants in class every week. ^^AU ourpeople love the class,^ said Mr. Jackson. Themotto of the mission seems to be, We cannothave social regeneration without spiritual re-generation. On leaving Liverpool I felt as I did whenI left Manchester—that a mighty work forChrist was being done there. Miracles arehappening, and the kingdom of righteousnessis being hastened. My next letter will be on the Central Hallin Edinburgh, where George Jackson had soremarkable a CHAPTER III Central Hall, Edinburgh When in Edinburgh five years ago I saidto our hostess, one Saturday evening: ^^To-morrow will be our first Sunday in your shall we attend church?^ After askingwhat church we attended at home, and find-ing out that we were Methodists, the goodlady said: ^^Ah, well, then, you must hearDinsdale Young in Wesley Chapel in themorning, and youll not hear better in Edin-burgh. Then, if you like, I should be glad ifyou would hear our minister, Hugh Black, inFree Saint Georges in the evening. GeorgeJackson was at that time in the height of hispopularity at the new Central Hall in the WestEnd, almost under the shadow of Castle three men are now gone from is at City Road, London; Black is inNew York city; and Jackson is in three men wielded great influence fromthe pulpits they occupied. They were quitedifferent in their type of preaching—Young,expository and eloquent; Black, with a t
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