TEMPERANCE

 Abstinence from alcohol drink.

1- THE PHOLOSOPHY OF INTEMPERANCE

a. The Original Perfection of Man
a.1 Created in Perfection and Beauty.
a.2 God’s Pledge to Maintain the Body’s
Healthful Action.
a.3 Responsibility to Heed Nature’s Laws.
a. 4 God Appointed the Inclinations and
Appetites.
 II- ALCOHOL AND SOCIETY
a. An Incentive to Crime
a.1 Crime is the Land
a.2 The Testimony of Judiciary
a.3 High Percentage of Crime Attributed
to Liquor
a.4 Sequence of Drinking and Crime
a.5 Why Alcohol and Crime Related.
a.6 Nature of Crimes Committed Under
Alcohol
a.7 The Drinker Not Excusable
 a.8 Drunkenness and Crime Before the Flood
and Now
a.9 God’s Judgments in Our Day
b. An Economic Problem
b.1 Liquor Traffic Breeds Dishonesty and
Violence
b.2 Millions Spent to Buy Wretchedness and
Death
b.3 A Contrasting Economic Status
b.4 Lawmakers and Liquor Dealers Held
Financially Responsible
b.5 Schools Could Have Been Established
 b.6 The Starving Might Be Fed
b.7 Mission Might Have Been Established

b.8 Publication Could Have Been Increased

c. Alcohol and the Home
c.1 Moderate Drinking
c.2 God’s Blessings Changed to a Curse
c.3 Marriage Vows Melted in the Fiery Liquid
c.4 His Manhood Is Gone
c.5 An Expression of Satan’s Violence
c.6 Calmness and Patience Lost
 c.7 The Shame and Curse of Every Land
c.8 The Wife Robbed, the Children Starved
c.9 The Drinker Responsible for His Guilt
c.10 In the Shadow of Liquor
d. A Cause Of Accidents
d.1 The Drinker Under Satan’s Control
d.2 Judgment Impaired Through Liquor
d.3 God Holds the Drinker Responsible
d.4 To Rebuke Liquor Drinking
d.5 The Only Safe Course
e. A Public Health Problem

e.1A Moral Sin and a Physical Disease

e.2In a Desperate Situation
e.3 Body and Soul in Slavery
e.4 No Strength to Resist Temptation
e.5 A Demon Power at Work
e.6 The Responsibility of the Liquor Dealer
f. Alcohol and Men In Responsibly
positions
f.1 Lessons from the Experience of Nadab and
Abihu
f.2 They were Responsible
f.3 Qualifications for Spiritual Leaders
f.4 A Call for Clear-Minded Officials
f.5 When Government Men Betray Their Trust
f.6 If All Responsible Men Were Temperate
f.7 Reason Dethroned at Belshazzar’s Feast
f.8 Awful Result of Herod’s Dissipation
f.9 No Voice to Save John
f.10 Divine Warnings
III. OTHER STIMULANTS AND
NARCOTICS
a. Abstain From Fleshy Lusts
a.1 There Is Always a Reaction
a.2 Peter’s All-Inclusive Warning
a.3 Lessens Physical and Mental Activity
a.4 Not All Tempted Alike
a.5 Satan’s Counterfeit of the Tree of Life
b. Tea and Coffee
b.1 Stimulants-Not Foods
b.2What Tea Does
b.3 Coffee still More Harmful
b.4 Effects of all Caffeine Drinks
b.5 Habit-Forming Beverages
b.6 Preparing the System for Disease
b.7The Whole System Suffers
b. 8 An Economic Waste
b. 9Destroys Temple of God
b.10 God’s People Must Overcome
b.11Determined Perseverance Will Bring
Victory
b.12A Pledge Embracing Tea and Coffee
b.13 Following Jesus in the Path of Reform
c. Drugs

c.1The Sad Result

c.2 Nervous System Deranged
c.3 A Sin Against the Children
c.4 Easier to Use Drugs
c.5 Educate Away from Drugs
c.6 Importance of Preventive Medicine
 IV. TOBACCO

a. Effects of Tobacco Use

a.1 Tobacco Users Guilty Before God.
a.2 Sowing and Reaping
a.3Beginnings of Tobacco Intemperance
a.4 Lives Are Sacrificed
a.5 Tobacco Use Is Suicide
b. Tobacco’s Polluting, Demoralizing Influence.
b.1 It Curses and Kills
b.2 A Factor in Increasing Crime
b.3 Satan Controls the Paralyzed Mind
b.4 Will the Women Smoke?
c. Defiling the Temple of God.
c.1 Inconvenient, Expensive, Uncleanly
c.2 Looking Through Clouded Windows
d. An Economic Waste
d.1 God’s Money Squandered.
d.2Tobacco Users to Look Over the Record
d.3 Appetite Versus Natural Affection and
Claims of God
d.4Taking the Lead in Self-Denial, Self- Sacrifice,
and Temperance
 V. PARENTAL EXAMPLE
AND GUIDANCE
 Responsible for Character
 The Mother an Example
 Temperance in All Details of Home
Life
 God Will Supplement the Parents’
Endeavors
VI. PREVENTIVE MEASURES
a. Education in Temperance
a.1 What Can we do?
a.2 The Rich Harvest From Educational Effort
a.3 What to Teach
a.4 Be Brave and Overcome
a.5 No Subject of Greater Interest
a.6 The Secret of a Permanent Work
a.7 Presented in Strength and Clarity
HAPPY SABBATH

AND
GOOD AFTERNOON
BRETHREN!!