Temperance and Religious Revival

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 29, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 52.

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Temperance and Religious Revival

“A GREAT movement in Ireland, unequalled in results for many years, has been sweeping over Ulster County; and in less than nine months over fifty thousand persons have been brought into the ranks of total abstainers. It is a remarkable fact that wherever a temperance movement advances, it is followed by a religious one. In a miners’ village in Wales, during the great revival, a pledge was laid on the communion table and signed by two hundred seventy men: then those who had pledged themselves to abstain from drink came up on a subsequent evening, and signed in the pulpit Bible, on the fly-leaves, a covenant with Christ to abstain from sin, and follow him as their leader.”