TEMPERANCE GEMS by Roswell F. Cottrell

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

TEMPERANCE GEMS.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

Our object in asking those who have always been temperate to sign the pledge, is not to make temperance men of them, but to engage them in making temperance men of others.

If you are so far addicted to the use of the mildest stimulants, such as tea and coffee, as to feel you cannot well do without them, it is high time you discontinued their use entirely; if not so far addicted to them, then make it sure, by total abstinence, that you will never get into that condition.

Those who conform to the foolish and extravagant fashions of the world to gain influence, show that they are under the influence of the vain world, and give what influence they have on the side of vanity and folly. R. F. C.