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To Take a Decided Stand for Temperance, July 24
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an
incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:25
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In the family circle and in the church we should place Christian tem-
perance on an elevated platform. It should be a living, working element,
reforming habits, dispositions, and characters. Intemperance lies at the
foundation of all the evil in our world
The children need to be given lessons that will nurture in them courage
to resist evil.... Parents should exercise great care in regard to the food
placed before their children. Drunkards are only too often made by lessons
of intemperance learned in the home. Let the children be given food that
will build up mind and body, but keep away from them the highly seasoned
dishes that would arouse a desire for still stronger stimulants.
The use of tobacco and strong drink has a great deal to do with the
increase of disease and crime. Tobacco is a slow, insidious, but most
malignant poison, and its use is working untold harm....
No argument is needed to show the evils of the use of intoxicating
drink. The bleared, besotted wrecks of humanity,—souls for whom Christ
died, and over whom angels weep,—are everywhere. They are a blot on
our boasted civilization....
Those who in ancient times ran for a prize realized the importance of
temperate habits, and how much more should we, who are running a race
for a heavenly crown. We should put forth every effort to overcome evil
At all times and on all occasions it requires moral courage to adhere to
the principles of strict temperance
Remember that you are daily weaving for yourself a web of habits....
The better you observe the laws of health, the more clearly can you discern
temptations, and resist them, and the more clearly can you discern the
value of eternal things
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Manuscript 29, 1886
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The Youth’s Instructor, September 24, 1907
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The Youth’s Instructor, August 25, 1886
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