A TEMPERANCE MEETING IN OHIO by Wm. Beebe

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, April 15, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 16

A TEMPERANCE MEETING IN OHIO.

By Wm. Beebe

HELD a temperance meeting in Milan, Ohio, Sunday evening, March 28. The people began coming in at an early hour, having a curiosity to see how S. D. Adventists would handle the temperance question, and at half past seven, the time appointed for meeting, the house was well filled. Conspicuously seated on the anxious-seat in the front part of the house, was a row of snuff-takers, chatting and snuffing. After speaking one and a half hours, I invited all to come up and sign the pledge. After a little counsel among the snuffers, one of them said she was going to sign the pledge, remarking that if her nose had been designed for a dust-box, it would have been set the other side up. So one after another signed the pledge, and then emptied their snuff-boxes on the floor, saying they would have nothing more to do with the filthy stuff. Several signed the anti-rum pledge. Heard many friendly remarks; nearly all seemed well pleased. The writer was the only S. D. Adventist present. Hoping that some good was accomplished, I take courage and go forward. WM. BEEBE.