Temperance by Temperance Union

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

Temperance.

By Temperance Union

THE WORK OF TEMPERANCE.

It's a work of prevention and cure; A work for the rich and the poor; A work that is slow and yet sure; A work whose effects will endure.

Then pray for it, hearer and preacher; Shout for it, master and man; Shout for it, scholar and teacher, Praise it wherever you can.

Temperance lessens the stealers, Robbing by day and by night; Temperance adds to the kneelers, Who in religion delight.

Temperance aids the repealers Of the infamous liquor laws; Temperance helps the revealers Of light on our nation's grand cause.

It's a work for the old and the young; It's a work for the pen and tongue; It's a work for the pulpit and pew; It's a work, brother and sister, for you.

—Temperance Union.