. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. and fifty thousand men, women and children followed him to his grave. Channing said: Here is a minister who deserves to be canonized, andwhose name should be placed in the calendar not far below Apostles. —G. M. H. JUSTIN EDWARDS. Justin Edwards was the ablest organizer and promoter of the originaltemperance movement in America. From 1829 to 1836 he was GeneralSecretary of the American Temperance Society, and foremost among itsfounders in 1826. His reports, compiled as Permanent American
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. and fifty thousand men, women and children followed him to his grave. Channing said: Here is a minister who deserves to be canonized, andwhose name should be placed in the calendar not far below Apostles. —G. M. H. JUSTIN EDWARDS. Justin Edwards was the ablest organizer and promoter of the originaltemperance movement in America. From 1829 to 1836 he was GeneralSecretary of the American Temperance Society, and foremost among itsfounders in 1826. His reports, compiled as Permanent American Tem-perance Documents, have become classic sources of information in regardto the early history of the reform, and his addresses and tracts contributedimmeasurably to the creation and maintenance of temperance his Temperance Manual 193,625 copies were distributed priorto 1857. The radical position taken from the first by Edwards and his asso-ciates is shown in the declaration made in the Temperance Societys con-stitution, that the principal object of the organization was, not the recla-.
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