World’s Temperance Congress
By Editor
A World's Temperance Congress is called to meet at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 14 to 30, 1908. This is to celebrate the organization of the first temperance society in history, so it is stated in the call, organized at Moreau, Saratoga Co., N. Y., April 30, 1808. All temperance societies of whatever name and nature are cordially invited. Various nations of the world will be invited to send national representatives. Rev. J. H. Durkee, of Rochester, N. Y., is chairman, and the Rev. C. J. Taft, of Binghampton, N. Y., is secretary. The Centennial Congress Club has been organized with a membership fee of $1.00 to defray incidental expenses, and it is suggested that societies wishing to be represented at this congress make application for space very soon. We would like to suggest that there was a temperance organization long before this, a record of which is found in Jeremiah 35. The name of that organization was the Rechabites.