He had so far touched only the Church, through its representative pulpits, and a few of the leading business men, and the result had been almost to convince him that very little help could be expected from the public generally.

He was appalled to find out what a tremendous hold the whisky men had on the business and politics of the place.

It was a revelation to him of their power.

The whole thing seemed to him like a travesty of free government, and a terrible commentary on the boasted Christianity of the century.
So when he walked into the pulpit the first Sunday of the month he felt his message burning in his heart and on his lips as never before.

It seemed beyond all question that if Christ was pastor of Calvary Church he would speak out in plain denunciation of the whisky power.