Among those who opposed and criticized Father Mathew were the
Sabbatarians, who opposed the holding of temperance meetings
on Sunday. Father Mathew replied: “They must well know that if
we did not assemble on the Lord’s day, we could not hold our
meetings at all, for the great majority of those who compose our
society are from that useful and virtuous body, the operatives,
who on every other day labor from the rising to the setting sun.
The temperance cause is the work of the Most High God, and it is
admirable in our eyes.”
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