Signs of the Times, Book 1 - Ellen G. White

Eld. Canright spoke in the evening upon the Sleep of the Dead. He
spoke with great clearness and perfect freedom. Sunday morning he again
spoke upon the Sabbath question, and many testified that they never heard
the subject presented with such clearness. At half-past one my husband took
the stand, speaking with freedom upon the reasons of our faith and hope. The
gathering was large for the place, and the audience seemed charmed by the
new and startling facts of truth brought before them. Men of repute from
Peru who listened to the two discourses stated that an overwhelming array of
argument had been presented in favor of the Sabbath which had knocked the
last prop for the sacred observance of Sunday from beneath them.
At half-past two I spoke upon the subject of Temperance, taking for my
text Revelation 3:21: "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne."
The congregation listened with solemn interest as I dwelt upon the
neglected duties of mothers in educating and training their children for the
better life, and the necessity of fathers acting their part in teaching the
children. Many fathers excuse themselves by saying that they have no time
to devote to their children. But the time squandered daily in smoking might
be made of highest value to their children in giving them important lessons
and in becoming acquainted with them. Tobacco and liquor lie at the
foundation of a large share of the crime and violence that is polluting our
world. I pointed them to Jesus, their Redeemer, who commenced the work of
redemption where the ruin began on the part of appetite.
After the meeting closed, Bro. Weber, a man of good repute in the city
of Rochester, who attended our camp-meeting in Kokomo two years since,
related his interesting experience, dating from that meeting. He stated that he
had used tobacco for forty years, commencing its use when a child. His
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