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Mr. Strong was much pleased with the result of the Sunday-night meetings and said they had done much to bridge the gulf between the church and the people . He refused to credit the talk about disaffection in Calvary Church . '' In another column of this same paper were five separate accounts of the desperate condition of affairs in the town . The midnight hold-up attacks were growing in frequency and in boldness . Along with all the rest , the sickness in the tenement district had assumed the nature of an epidemic of fever , clearly caused by the lack of sanitary regulations , imperfect drainage , and crowding of families . Clearly the condition of matters was growing serious . At this time the minsters -LSB- sic -RSB- of different churches in Milton held a meeting to determine on a course of action that would relieve some of the distress .