p. 16 | The “Temperance Instructor” by M. E. KERN.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1916

The “Temperance Instructor”

By M. E. KERN.

OUR Missionary Volunteers should not forget that just now is the time to work for the new Temperance Instructor. Surely this should be our banner year in working for this paper. We feel confident that every Missionary Volunteer has an earnest desire to see the liquor traffic abolished. Many who do not fully sense the terror of sin in the abstract can see in the ruin which rum has wrought, a concrete illustration of the awful results of wrongdoing; and as our young people work against the liquor traffic, they learn to hate sin and to identify themselves with the cause of righteousness.

On Jan. 1, 1916, seven States passed under prohibition. One of the seven had had prohibition years ago, but had gone back to liquor. It takes more than laws to insure prohibition. It takes education. The Temperance Instructor is needed just as much perhaps in prohibition territory as elsewhere. It is needed everywhere.

During the year 1916, the following States will vote on this great moral issue: Vermont, in March; in November, South Dakota, California, Nebraska, Montana, Michigan, Idaho; also Alaska. Will not our Missionary Volunteer leaders at once organize their young people for a big temperance campaign? In some cases, public-spirited men will pay for copies of the Temperance Instructor to be distributed. In others, our young people can take up the regular sale of this paper, and while conducting an educational campaign on the subject of temperance, can make a reasonable profit for themselves. We shall be glad to hear concerning your campaign plans.

M. E. KERN.