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In the midst of this district, where tenement houses rise high in the air, where many blocks shelter from 2000 to 2400 people each, where the gospel of cleanliness has not yet been accepted, where men and women look prematurely old, where childhood is without pleasure, where manhood is endless toil, and old age a burden, — there is the Cathedral Mission in which the Bishop makes his home." The Bishop himself, however, found no hardship in his situation, and declined to consider his work as cont...aining any element of martyrdom. "Don't imagine," he wrote to the Rev. F. Ward Denys "that there is anything heroic in my going there or any especial risk. There are certain questions concerning the problem there to which I cannot get an answer second-hand, and I should be a very poor lot, if I were not wilHng to sub- mit to the very insignificant inconvenience or discomfort involved in looking into them." "It is a shame and an outrage on the people of Stanton street," he said, to a Times reporter, "to represent that I am going into the slums.
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