Haggard women bent their heads as they murmured with unutterable sadness, 'You've come too late to save my boy or my husband.' Many saloon-keepers gave up their business and never resumed it.

Many who had lost all hope because of the appetite which bound them, heard from woman's lips the glad tidings of freedom in Christ, and accepted the liberty of the Gospel." In many other places the crusaders met with violence from exasperated liquor-dealers and their brutish associates.

A pail of cold water was thrown into the face of a woman in Clyde, Ohio, as she knelt praying in front of a saloon.

Dirty water was thrown by pailfuls over the women at Norwalk.

At Columbus, a saloon-keeper assaulted one of the praying-band, injuring her seriously.