The Case for Total Abstinence

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 13.

The Case for Total Abstinence

There is an anti-treating society, which pledges its members “not to give or treat any one to intoxicating liquors, nor accept the same from others, cases of actual need in sickness excepted.” But this does not go nearly far enough. Treating is evil, but the man who drinks is the man who will treat, especially if he be of a generous nature. The only true thing to do is to totally abstain, to neither drink one’s self nor give it to others. The corresponding secretary is Rev. J. W. Hartpence, 2027 Franklin Street, Philadelphia, Pa.