He is terribly in earnest over this.

He told me that there was no question in his mind that the saloon would be beaten in Raymond at the election now near at hand.

If so, they could go on with some courage to do the redemptive work begun by the evangelist and now taken up by the disciples in his own church.

If the saloon triumphs again there will be a terrible and, as he thinks, unnecessary waste of Christian sacrifice.

But, however we differ on that point, he convinced his church that the time had come for a fellowship with other Christians.