Introduction

  1. The Original Perfection of Man
  2. The Inception of Intemperance
  3. Impairment Through Indulged Appetite
  4. Importance of Christ’s Victory Over Appetite
  5. An Incentive to Crime
  6. An Economic Problem
  7. Alcohol and the Home
  8. A Cause of Accidents
  9. A Public-Health Problem
10. Alcohol and Men in Responsible Positions
11. Effects of Tobacco Use
12. Tobacco’s Polluting, Demoralizing Influence
13. Defiling the Temple of God
14. An Economic Waste
15. The Power of Example
16. Abstain From Fleshy Lusts
17. Tea and Coffee
18. Drugs
19. Importance of Strictly Temperate Habits
20. Psychological Effects of Mild Intoxicants
21. The Intoxicating Effects of Wine and Cider
22. Wine in the Bible
23. Christians and the Production of Liquor-Making Products
24. Temperance and Total Abstinence
25. Only as the Life Is Changed
26. Conversion the Secret of Victory
27. The Will the Key to Success
28. Enduring Victory
29. Help for the Tempted
30. Counsel on How to Work
31. The Temperance Worker
32. What True Temperance Embodies
33. The Body the Temple
34. Temperance and Spirituality
35. Daniel’s Example
36. The Food on Our Tables
37. Total Abstinence Our Position
38. Relation to Church Membership
39. Seventh-day Adventists Spiritual Leaders
40. Prenatal Influence
41. The Strength of Inherited Tendencies
42. Formation of Behavior Patterns
43. Parental Example and Guidance
44. Teaching Self-Denial and Self-Control
45. Youth and the Future
46. Education in Temperance
47. Signing the Pledge
48. Removing the Temptation
49. Diversion and Harmless Substitutes
50. The Sense of Moral Obligation
51. Working Together
52. Co-operating With the W.C.T.U.
53. The Present Situation
54. Called to the Battle
55. By Voice — a Part of Our Evangelistic Message
56. Temperance Education an Objective of Our Medical Work
57. The Influence of the Pen
58. The Power of the Vote
59. The Call to the Harvest

Appendices
  A. Ellen G. White a Temperance Worker
  B. At Christiana, Norway — 1886
  C. A talk on Temperance — 1891
  D. At Sydney, Australia — 1893