The Temperance Work

Christians Should Vote for Prohibition and Total Abstinence

The following appeared in The Review and Herald, October 11, 1906 and is of importance in our consideration of the temperance question, because some have refrained from voting, even for prohibition of the liquor traffic. PH093 8.1

There is a cause for the moral paralysis upon society. Our laws sustain an evil which is sapping their very foundations. Many deplore the wrongs which they know exist, but consider themselves free from all responsibility in the matter. This cannot be. Every individual exerts an influence in society. In our favored land every voter has some voice in determining what laws shall control the nation. Should not that influence and vote be on the side of temperance and virtue?” PH093 8.2

Again, on page 290, same paper, we have a little more on the same point, as follows:— PH093 8.3

“The advocates of temperance fail to do their whole duty unless they exert their influence, by precept and example, by voice and pen and vote, in behalf of prohibition and total abstinence. We need not expect that God will work a miracle to bring about this reform, and thus remove the necessity for our exertion. We ourselves must grapple this giant foe, our motto, ‘No compromise,’ and no cessation of our efforts till victory is gained.” PH093 8.4