The saloon men were enraged.

Ordinarily they would have paid no attention to anything a church or a preacher might say or do.

But Philip spoke from the pulpit of the largest church in Milton.
The whisky men knew that if the large churches should all unite to fight them they would make it very uncomfortable for them and in the end probably drive them out.

Philip went home that Sunday night after the evening service with several bitter enemies.

The whisky men contributed one element.