In the summer time baseball games were played in Milton on Sunday.

In the fall and winter very many people spent their evenings in card-playing or aimlessly strolling up and down the main street.

These facts came to Philip's knowledge gradually, and he was not long in making up his mind that Christ would not keep silent before the facts.

So he carefully prepared a plain statement of his belief in Christ's standing on the modern use of Sunday, and as on the other occasions when he had spoken the first Sunday in the month, he cast out of his reckoning all thought of the consequences.

His one purpose was to do just as, in his thought of Christ, He would do with that subject.
The people in Milton thought that the first Sunday Philip appeared in his pulpit he would naturally denounce the saloon again.