Lincoln, the advocate of abstinence
Publisher: Methodist Book Concern
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 645
Subjects: Views on temperance
Description: Relates the story of Lincoln's temperance speech of 1842.  Sixty-five years before the founding of the Lincoln Legion (a pledge program which asked for abstinence from the use of alcohol by its signers), farmers and their families gathered at the South Fork School House in Sangamon County, Illinois to hear an appeal for total abstinence and to sign the pledge presented by a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.
Notes: Detached from The Epworth Herald, Patriotic number, Vol. XXXIII, no. 27, July 1, 1922.