But what can you do with the club men ?" "You have asked me a direct question and I shall have to answer it now," replied Rollin, smiling again.

"You see, I asked myself after that night at the tent, you remember" (he spoke hurriedly and his voice trembled a little), "what purpose I could now have in my life to redeem it, to satisfy my thought of Christian discipleship?
And the more I thought of it, the more I was driven to a place where I knew I must take up the cross.

Did you ever think that of all the neglected beings in our social system none are quite so completely left alone as the fast young men who fill the clubs and waste their time and money as I used to?
The churches look after the poor, miserable creatures like those in the Rectangle; they make some effort to reach the working man, they have a large constituency among the average salary-earning people, they send money and missionaries to the foreign heathen, but the fashionable, dissipated young men around town, the club men, are left out of all plans for reaching and Christianizing.

And yet no class of people need it more.

I said to myself: 'I know these men, their good and their bad qualities.