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Temperance
accomplish untold good if it were used in the support of missions in
the dark places of our world. God is being robbed of that which is
rightfully His.—
Manuscript 38 1/2, 1905
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Publications Could Have Been Increased
—When we obey
the injunction of the apostle, “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink,
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or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God,” thousands of
dollars which are now sacrificed upon the altar of hurtful lust will
flow into the Lord’s treasury, multiplying publications in different
languages to be scattered like the leaves of autumn. Missions will
be established in other nations, and then will the followers of Christ
be indeed the light of the world.—
The Signs of the Times, August
13, 1874
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Intemperance Increased by Holidays
—Drunkenness, rioting,
violence, crime, murder, come as the result of man selling his reason.
The numerous holidays increase the evils of intemperance. These
holidays are no help to morality or to religion. On them men spend
in drink the money that should be used to supply the necessities of
their families; and the liquor sellers reap their harvest.
When drink is in, reason is out. This is the hour and power of
darkness, when all crime becomes possible, and the whole human
machinery is controlled by a power from beneath, when soul and
body are brought under the control of passion. And what can stay
this passion? What can hinder it? These souls have no certain
anchorage. Holidays are leading them on to temptation; for on a
holiday many think that it is their privilege, because it is a holiday,
to do as they please.—
Manuscript 17, 1898
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Millions for the Devil’s Treasury
—Look at those that drink
wine and beer and strong drink. Let them reckon up how much
money they spend in this. How many thousands and millions of
dollars have gone into the devil’s treasury to perpetuate wickedness,
and to carry on dissolution, corruption, and crime.—
Manuscript 20,
1894
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