State Prohibitionist by Editor

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

State Prohibitionist.

By Editor

THIS is the title of a paper published in Sacramento. We are pleased to have such a paper in this State; we believe that at this stage of the reform prohibition is the only true position for true temperance workers. And we are glad to know that temperance people are so fast being converted to this platform. The number for January 18 contains an unusually strong article from the pen of Dr. A. J. Frost, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Sacramento, in review of another Baptist minister in California who attempted to argue the saloonist's favorite saying: “Prohibition does not prohibit,” and thence infers that it is wrong to try to prohibit! This argument will apply to all crimes committed in the land; certainly the law of California is a notable failure,—it does not prohibit murder. What then? Why, abolish the law, of course, and persuade the murderous villains to desist!

Success to the State Prohibitionist.