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cause of political freedom; with such aid its march cannot fail to be
on and on, till every son of earth shall drink in rich fruition the
sorrow-quelching draughts of perfect liberty . . .’
“Abraham Lincoln’s ‘temperance revolution’ is our DREAM.
It makes us look to the future but forces us to be hard workers in
the present. We dare not ask for rest from our tasks in temperance
so long as—
one teen-ager is lured by someone or something to lean
upon alcohol for freedom or ability or happiness.
one motor car runs amuck because of the alcohol-
fogged brain of the driver at the wheel.
one problem drinker or alcoholic remains in the land;
a single person whose brain was meant for clear
thought and whose life was meant for constructive
living taking the alcoholic route of retreat from reality
and descent into destructive living.
“The Lord God Almighty being our helper let us give ourselves
anew to the cause. Let it be Alliance Team full spiritual STEAM
ahead into the DREAM!”
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws—that is
what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm
and unspoiled when the world praises him.