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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 37.

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The Temperance Cause

By Arthur G. Daniells

OUR brethren connected with the International Publishing Association, College View, Neb., are planning to issue a special Temperance number of the Sions Vaktare, our Swedish paper. Full particulars regarding this special issue will be found on page 22 of this number of the REVIEW.
The Lord has greatly blessed the efforts of our English-speaking people in the dissemination of over one hundred fifteen thousand copies of the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. The judgment day alone will reveal the good that this effort has accomplished. The vice-president of one of the leading universities in the country ordered five hundred copies to be placed in the rooms of the university students. The temperance committee of a large denomination asked the privilege of using articles and cuts from the magazine, as did also the Anti-Saloon League of a Western State.
In a recent bulletin of the Associated Prohibition Press, Seventh-day Adventists are classed as one of six leading Protestant denominations doing all in their power to abolish the crime-making, soul-destroying liquor traffic. This is as it should be, and we should do even more in this direction. Several years ago we were admonished that, “the honor of God, the stability of the nation, the well-being of the community, of the home, and of the individual, demand that every possible effort be made in arousing the people to the evil of intemperance.” And again: “Let the danger from the liquor traffic be made plain, and a public sentiment be created that shall demand its prohibition. Let an army be found to stop the sale of the drugged liquors that are making men mad.”
The special number of the Sions Vaktare will be issued on or about the first of October. Our English-speaking brethren and sisters everywhere should now assist the Scandinavian brethren in giving this paper a wide circulation. Many live near Swedish communities, where many copies can be sold. Thousands of this nationality will also be found in our large American cities. Let these be searched out and introduced to this special Temperance number.
A. G. DANIELLS.