Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1903

NEW HAMPSHIRE, the second State in the Union to adopt prohibition, has now, after fifty years' trial of the system, abandoned it for “high license.” In some places in the State the prohibitory law was enforced, and in others it was not. The law was good, but public opinion did not sufficiently support it, and without such support a statute has no power. Prohibition upon the statute books without prohibition in the hearts of the people, proved to be a failure. The real battle for temperance must be fought out where all Christian battles are fought; that is, in the hearts of the people. Christian education will be found better in the cause of temperance than a prohibitory law.