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descriptions of conditions might vary from that with which we are
now familiar. For instance, reference is made to the saloon. While
the liquor dispensary of today may differ from the saloon of fifty
years ago, everyone knows that the same types of beverages are
dispensed that were used at the time in which Mrs. White wrote, and
that their effects upon the body, mind, and soul are the same. The
relationship between the use of alcohol and automobile accidents
was not stressed as it should be today, for the simple reason that
automobiles were not then in common use. However, the reader will
find set forth in statements concerning the use of alcohol and acci-
dents a description of causes and effects which are fully applicable
to present-day conditions. The power of alcohol to undermine the
home, to wreck the health, to ruin the morals, and to destroy the soul
is as potent now as it was a half century ago.
The reader will quickly discern the significance of temperance
as it was presented to Mrs. White through the long years of her rich
ministry. In this respect this volume makes an invaluable contribu-
tion to temperance literature. The temperance sermons found in the
appendix typify Mrs. White’s intense burden to save humanity from
the soul-destroying curse of intemperance.
That this volume may, under God’s blessings, accomplish a work
of revitalizing the interests of Seventh-day Adventists in temperance
and the temperance work and lead us to our heaven-assigned position
in the forefront of temperance forces is the sincere wish of the
Publishers.
The Trustees of the
Ellen G. White Publications.
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