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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1916

Episcopal Convention Opposes Liquor Traffic

A STRONG stand on the liquor traffic was taken at the recent Protestant Episcopal General Convention, which was held in St. Louis, Mo. A resolution adopted by the house of deputies placed the church on record as favoring “such action in our legislative assemblies as will preserve the interests of temperance and the repression of the liquor traffic.” The action was an outgrowth of a memorial asking the convention to record itself as favoring nation-wide prohibition, submitted by the Church Temperance Society through Francis Lynde Stetson, of New York. The church, as such, never before took this specific stand relative to the liquor traffic.