MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 183
We, your committee on temperance, take pleasure in reporting the following as the result of our consideration, and we feel happy to say that we discover a grand revival in the working agencies of this important cause. Yea, never at any stage of our history did success seem more certain and victory surer than now. Intemperance is a mighty destroyer. It is a foe to the State, a foe to the church, a foe to every home circle, and a foe to every individual upon the globe. Its march is onward, invading every place. Its tread, soft and subtle, is heard in the Senate chamber, in the justice hall, and serpent-like it drags its slow length up the church aisle, enters the pew and pulpit, and one by one we see the mighty fallen.
Therefore as this intemperence is a mighty worker, so all temperance workers should be mighty and tireless workers. We need more organizations in this undertaking. In organization there is power. Our greatest commercial, mercantile and railroad enterprises are carried on by incorporated organizations. United strength, when rightly directed, is the power that wins. Therefore we as a holy church of God, gifted with grace and sanctified unto eternal righteousness, should seize this advantage to wield against this terrible destroyer which is spreading desolation throughout the land.
As a church we should do something, and as a christian community we should do something. Every Sabbath-school should do something to overthrow its power. The cry for help is daily falling upon our ears. The flowerless grave, the widowed mother in her untimely grief, the weeping orphans, the wrecked merchant, the fallen statesman, all, all appeal to us in accents louder than that voice that burst from the storm cloud, to enter into immediate action in this cause.
We stand wonderstruck and amazed when comparing a few figures, as the following: Great Britain alone spends $700,000,000 annually for intoxicating beverages; the United States spends $600,000,000 annually for the same, while all the money spent in the support of foreign missions by all the Protestant churches put together does not exceed $6,000,000 annually. Then is it to
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