Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

this respect, but for the worse. Genuine reforms are
always attended with loss, sacrifice and peril;
opposition is provoked, calumny and hatred are
called out, and the better rejected for the worse.
We can not attach our names to a pledge
presented by a society which indulges the use of
the body-and-soul destroying narcotic, tobacco.
How can we unite with this class, how work with
them, how form a society with them? How is it
possible to work successfully in their way and after
their order?
As far as the temperance cause advances, we
would sanction it, but ever keep aloft the higher
standard. No one who views reforms from a
Christian standpoint should discourage any
advance in this direction from unbelievers.
The question for us to settle is whether we will
be identified with certain movements and
organizations which claim to be adopted to benefit
society. If these parties are what they claim to be,
they deserve the sympathy and support of all
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