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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 5, 1914

Seventh-Day Adventists and

Prohibition

Of the work of the Seventh-day Adventists in Southern California in behalf of the temperance campaign now being waged in that State, the Los Angeles Tribune of February 16 says:—

"Seventh-day Adventists in sixty or more churches throughout Southern California began a general temperance campaign Saturday morning. Elder F. M. Burg, president of the Southern California Conference, delivered the keynote campaign address. . . .

"Extensive plans were approved for a widespread campaign of education by all the members, as well as by the pastors and leaders, and the following resolutions were adopted by practically unanimous vote in all the churches:—

" 'Whereas, We are convinced that the liquor traffic is a constant menace to our homes, our schools, our churches, and our State; a disgrace to our civilization; and the cause, directly and indirectly, of an infinite amount of misery and crime; and,—

" 'Whereas, At the opening of the present prohibition campaign we wish to reaffirm similar resolutions adopted at many of our annual conference sessions,—

" 'Resolved, That we the officers and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church do hereby pledge ourselves to use every honorable and lawful means by which the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverages shall forever be prohibited; and be it further—

" 'Resolved, That we shall continue with even greater zeal, by voice and pen, and vote, by precept and example, and by the judicious circulation of specially prepared temperance literature, the campaign of education along health and temperance lines which has characterized this denomination ever since its organization.'"