Acknowledged Ally of Temperance Forces

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1916

Acknowledged Ally of Temperance Forces

The best temperance workers throughout the United States and Canada, those who have an opportunity to observe the influence and power of the Instructor Temperance Annual, acknowledge it to be an ally to existing temperance forces. Many say it is the strongest temperance publication in existence. The fact that nearly a half million copies are sold each year is a stronger proof of its efficiency as a temperance factor than the many most flattering statements made in its behalf.

Under date of June 30, Katherine Lent Stevenson, president of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, wrote of the annual as follows:—

“The Temperance edition of the Youth’s Instructor is a very valuable contribution to the temperance propaganda. It contains clear-cut statements, facts and figures gathered from reliable sources and presented in such an attractive form that it cannot fail to influence those whom it reaches. Mrs. Stevens, the late president of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, used to say that the thousands of copies distributed throughout Maine in 1911 did very much, she felt sure, to make the prohibition victory possible. The same result will unquestionably follow its distribution in any other State, and the temperance forces count the little paper as an ally in the great fight for nationwide prohibition.”