p. 191 | The Temperance "Instructor" for 1913

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 20, 1913

The Temperance "Instructor" for 1913

Still the orders for the new Temperance Instructor are pouring in at the rate of 7,000 to 10,000 copies a day. With these orders come the most gratifying reports we have ever had on the Temperance Instructor. Our workers in some places are demonstrating that it is better to put ten men to work than to attempt to do ten men's work.

They are also proving that the sincere temperance people in various temperance organizations are ready to join us in the circulation of the Temperance Instructor. We quote the following report in order to reveal a new, successful method of temperance work recently adopted in the West Pennsylvania Conference:—

“You have perhaps noticed from the wire orders that have come in from ‘this neck of the woods’ during the last few days that there is something doing. Brother Punches has been down in Somerset County this week working with the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon people, and has just come back to the office, having disposed of 3,075 copies of the Temperance Instructor in four and one-half days’ work in that county.

“The league people take the papers at five cents, and we furnish an organizer to get the work started. The plan that is being followed is to get the churches and the W. C. T. U. people to take the papers, and sell them on somewhat the same plan that we have been using in the ‘Ingathering campaign, and thus raise money for the extension of the temperance movement. This plan appeals to these people as the very best thing they have ever struck, and they grab at it like a hungry man at a free lunch. They are all delighted with the magazine; and, as the State presidents of the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League were prominent in the campaign and liked the idea very much, you are likely to hear of it again before we get through. We are expecting a call to furnish a worker for a Beaver County campaign within a few days.

“Now I do not know that this plan is a new venture, but it seems to work all right so far, and, as you see, opens up some very good possibilities for the development of our temperance campaign. If these good people want to sell our magazines for us, we are willing to let them do it, especially when they are willing to pay us well for teaching them how. I am very much pleased with the way the Lord is opening the doors for us in this temperance campaign. Every time we strike a blow for temperance, we strike a blow that helps some one back to God. No man can fear God and glorify him while a slave to drink. So I feel that this is part of the work of the Second Advent Message to prepare a people to meet the Saviour face to face. I hope the time will come when we can see the work done in Somerset County duplicated not only in other counties in West Pennsylvania, but all over the country. When the Lord has put such excellent ‘entering wedges’ in our hands, why should we lay them away carefully on the shelf and try to beat the logs open with our mauls?”—B. F. Kneeland, president of the West Pennsylvania Conference.

The Temperance Instructor appeals strongly to all classes in every locality. Presidents of our conferences lavish upon it the highest commendations. Elder C. F. McVagh, of West Michigan, sends us this message:—

“I feel sure that this number will prove a winner. I really did not think the last one could be improved upon; but even before I have read this new number all through, I must say it is the best yet. We are putting a man in the field for general missionary work, and he will not lose an opportunity for the 1913 Temperance Instructor."

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