The administration of the pledge was followed by a grand meeting of welcome in the city hall.

Father Mathew spoke with modest simplicity and deep emotion, attributing all his wonderful success to the direct blessings of God upon his efforts to persuade his fellow-men to throw off the despotism of the bottle.

After delivering my maiden speech I hastened back to Edinburgh with the deputation from "Auld Reekie," and I never saw Father Mathew again.

He was, unquestionably, the most remarkable temperance reformer who has yet appeared.

While a Catholic priest in Cork, a Quaker friend, Mr.Martin, who met him in an almshouse, said to him, "Father Theobald, why not give thyself to the work of saving men from the drink ?" Father Mathew immediately commenced his enterprise.