TEMPERANCE FORCES AT WORK

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

TEMPERANCE FORCES AT WORK

The Temperance Forces from Vermont to California are mobilizing and placing orders for a large supply of Temperance Instructors. Within a few days twelve conferences have each ordered 5,000 of these papers, and the following message from W. R. Andrews, president of the Eastern New York Conference, reveals the spirit and courage of the leaders of the temperance forces:—

“Today we have been laying plans to push the Temperance Instructor. I feel a burden to do this just now, for the reason that a bill has been introduced in the legislature of New York for State-wide prohibition. There is to be a hearing in March, and it promises to be one of the most interesting hearings held in this State this winter, so we are planning to push the Instructor. I hope to circulate at least 10,000 copies in this conference. We shall aim to do it. Am sure we can.

“I went out the other day just a little while to test the Instructor. The first man I called on was a Methodist minister. I sold him 25 copies at 10 cents each. I averaged 12 copies an hour from door to door. I found it to be about the easiest thing to sell that I ever tried.”

Eastern New York will succeed, because the president is setting the pace.