Awful waves of influence sweepin' along--sweepin' along clear from to-day to the Day of Judgment; I can't bear to think on't; I'm kinder sorry for him, and am glad enough it hain't my Josiah that has got that ahead on him.

I wish he'd ondo now what he's done as fur as he can, he'd feel better, I believe, I know that I and the meetin' house would and Josiah.
But, 'tennyrate, no matter how Satan wuz laughin' and sneerin' and angels bendin' down from the gold bars of Heaven lookin' through their pityin' tears hopin' it must be a mistake, not believin' it possible that them prayers and hims could come from a man-killin' saloon.

And coverin' their eyes with their droopin' wings when they found it wuz so--they sung it through and the minister, for he wuz a stiddy man, went home in good season.

And Perkins also started home walkin' afoot, it wuz so little ways.
And as I said, some wimmen sot on him and hoss-whipped him.

Some of these wimmen's husbands had been ruined and killed by the Poor Man's Club.