Oh, my brother man, why should you try to harm me because I denounced your business?
Do you not know in your heart of hearts that the saloon is so evil in its effects that a man who loves his home and his country must speak out against it?
And yet I love you; that is possible because you are human.

Oh, my Father!" Philip continued, changing his appeal to the man, by an almost natural manner, into a petition to the Infinite, "make this soul, dear to thee, to behold thy love for him, and make him see that it is not against me, a mere man, that he has sinned, but against thyself--against thy purity and holiness and affection.

Oh, my God, thou who didst come in the likeness of sinful man to seek and save that which was lost, stretch out the arms of thy salvation now to this child and save him from himself, from his own disbelief, his hatred of me, or of what I have said.

Thou art all-merciful and all-loving.

We leave all souls of men in the protecting, enfolding embrace of thy boundless compassion and infinite mercy." There was a moment of entire quiet in the room, and then Philip said faintly: "Sarah, I cannot say more.