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title: 'The Church and Temperance'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Richard Clark Reed'
date: 1881-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Temperance'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Matthew 18'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/reed-1881-the-church-and-temperance
---

# The Church and Temperance

1881 Presbyterian article emphasizes the deacon's office and urges the Church to combat intemperance—condemning liquor traffic and advocating moral leadership and abstinence.

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