Written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. First published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly.

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 27, 1895: "Emanuel Bayard is a divinity student in a New England college town, and when he has completed his course he goes out to his chosen work, which is among the poor and the lost in the sea coast town of Windover. He begins his labors in the locality by thrashing a big drunken brute who was maltreating his own child, and wins the love and regard of the brute for all subsequent time. He is too much of a Christian and too little of a theologian to suit the old church for which he was intended, and so he takes up mission work in Angel alley, the worst and most God-forsaken quarter of the town, and there establishes his mission."