The Temperance Number by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1909

The Temperance Number

By Editor

Of The Youth’s Instructor

To aid in uniting and strengthening our efforts in the great cause of temperance, a special temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor is to be issued. This number will bear the date of March 16, 1909, and will consist of twenty-four pages and cover, with an unusually attractive design for the front cover page. This artistic and suggestive design, together with the large number of illustrations and the valuable matter contained in the paper, must make this number the most important and easy-selling one ever issued.

All the leading themes of the temperance reform movement will be presented under these general headings:— The Evils of the Liquor Traffic; License and Revenue; The Returns of the Traffic; The Remedy—Prohibition, State and National; Alcohol in Heathen Lands; The Tobacco Evil; Allies of Liquor and Tobacco.

The fact that so many well-known temperance workers have contributed articles to this number will make it easy for one to interest the people in it. Among the contributors are: Edward Wavrinsky, Member of the Swedish Parliament; Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, President of the National W. C. T. U.; Rev. Harry G. Greensmith, Grand Chief Templar of New York; Miss Jessie Forsyth, International Superintendent of Juvenile Work; Miss Alma Whitney, Grand Superintendent of Juvenile Templars; Rev. Joseph Crooker, President of the Unitarian Temperance Society; Mrs. E. G. White; and Daniel A. Poling, Traveling Secretary of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association.

For Temperance Rallies

This number is admirably adapted to serve as the basis of programs for temperance rallies, which are an effective means of making known to the people our attitude as a church toward the liquor traffic, and of giving instruction and inspiration to those who take part in the rallies.

The Problem

Who is to place this paper in the hands of the people? All should have a part in it, as individuals, societies, schools, churches, and conferences. It is hoped that this number will form a feature of every temperance rally held in connection with the camp-meetings of 1909.

It is desired that young men and women sell this special number throughout the summer, and use the money obtained therefrom to pay their expenses in school the following year. Who will undertake this work?

Perhaps there is no question to which the people will more readily give their attention now than to the temperance question. Let us take advantage of the situation, and it may be that by this means we can also enlist the attention of many in the still greater reform now being carried on in the world by the third angel’s message.

PRICES

Single copy, 10 cents; 5 copies, 5 cents a copy; 25 copies, 4 cents; 100 copies, 3¾ cents; 500 copies, 3½ cents; 1,000 copies, 3 cents.