The Republican journal., 1911-09-14
The Seventh-Day Adventists.
They Do Not Admit to Membership Users
of Liquor or Tobacco.

They Do Not Admit to Membership Users
of Liquor or Tobacco.
The following communication was re-
ceived after last weeks Journal had
gone to press, and though it would have
been more timely before election it is of
sufficient interest to warrant its publi-
cation now:
To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL. 1t
may not be generally known that there
is one religious denomination in the
United States that does not admit to its
membership any individual who uses in
toxicating liquor and, going still farther
in the temperance work, excludes all
who use tobacco in any form. This de-
nomination has strong constituency of
over one hundred thousand and has al
ways been active in the prohibition cause.
Some States in the west have openly de-
clared, and the votes have shown, that
had it not been for the good work of the
Seventh-day Adventists in their midst
the prohibitory law would not have been
annulled.
In the present issue in this State no
people have been more alive. They have
imported workers from Tennessee, Aus
tralia and other far away places and with
voice and pen have entered into the cam
paign. At the annual State camp-meet-
ing in Norridgewock, Sept. Ito, the vari-
GUS churches were well represented.
Sunday. Sept. 3, was the great temper
workers was added the help of Mrs.
Deborah Knox Livingston, the eloquent
and talented spe aker from Rhode Island,
who has travelled and lectured all over
Maine in the interests of prohibition.
The mammoth pavilion pitched in the
| field in the rear Of the Seventh-Gay Ad-
ventist church in the village was packed
to overlooking. Among other speakers
was pastor G. B. Starr, from the Nelrose
SaI-arlum, a medical missionary evan
ge I. from Australia. This gentleman
SO + years ago was connected with a
sif llar campaign on that distant CONT
r FL. He presented the temperance
I lestion from a Biblical and common
sEnse standpoint. He graphically de-
scribed the divine ladder of the Christian
graces, showing that temperance has a
high place among the upward rounds.
e Pet. 1:5) while the downward ladder
OF tleshly lusts terminates in the round
of ''drunkardness" (Gal. 5:19,2D. He
declared that it would be sad spectacle
for Maine to descend from its high place
on the. topmost round TO the lowest
depths.
Pastor Fred c.. Gilbert, a converted
Jew from Boston, added his voice to the
general sentiment of the meeting and in
an enthusiastic and vigorous manner de-
nounced the rum traffic At the close of
the services the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
| Resolved: That we, the delegates of
/ the Maine Seventh-day Adventist Con-
ference assembled at Norridgewock,
Me-, Sept. 3, 1911, heartily support the
continuance of prohibition in the State
of Maine by our influence, our voice and
our vote no.
The Seventh-day Adventsts have an
organized body of young people lin the
State known as the Young Peoples Mis-
sionary Volunteers, and have united their
! forces in the distribution of a special
temperance number of the youths In
structor. Over fifty thousand of these
papers have been placed in the homes of
Maine, representing monetary value of
five thousand dollars.
The w. c. 7. U. and other temperance
organizations have united with the
Missionary Volunteers in the distribution
of these periodicals and the demand for
them has been even greater than the
supply. The most of the papers have
been marked with the words ''Vote NO. -
1t is house to house work that counts in
any great campaign, and the majority of
the homes in this fair State have thus
been visited. E. H. MORTON.