7. Where, above all, should true temperance reform begin?
In the home.
Note.—Unless fathers and mothers practise temperance, they cannot expect their children to do so.
8. What classes of men especially should be strictly temperate?
“Be thou an example of the believers.” 1 Tim. 4:12.
Note.—Of all men in the world, ministers and physicians should lead strictly temperate lives. The welfare of society demands this of them, for their influence is constantly telling for or against moral reform and the improvement of society. By precept and example they can do much toward bringing about the much-needed reform.
9. Can the fact that the liquor traffic brings in a large revenue to the state justify men in licensing it?
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity.” Hab. 2:12.
Note.—In all the walks and relationships of life, whether in the home, the medical profession, the pulpit, or the legislative assembly, men should stand for temperance. To license the liquor traffic is to legalize and foster it. It cannot exist nor thrive without the patronage of each rising generation, a large number of whom it must necessarily ruin, body, soul, and spirit. For the state to receive money from such a source, therefore, must be highly reprehensible. The practise has fittingly been likened to a father catching sharks, and baiting his hook with his own children.