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Monday, May 29, 2023

Ministers Ask for Campaign for Temperance, May 29, 1923

To Make Campaign for Temperance, Law and Order

Owing to the widespread tendency of many of the people toward habits of intemperance and disregard of the laws of our country, the laws of God, the Ministerial Association of Union county in session in Monroe on May the 21, voted unanimously to ask every minister in the county to give one service each to each church in his charge during the month of June to the presentation of the claims of temperance and good citizenship. The ministers were also asked to give additional time outside the bound of their charges that teams of speakers might visit churches without pastors and school house communities desiring their service. Any such community wishing speakers for afternoon services will please report to any member of the undersigned committee. In their endeavor to encourage and recreate habits of sobriety among a spirit of reference for law and order and responsibility to Almighty we earnestly crave the sympathetic co-operation and prayer of all God-fearing people.

--R.J. McIlwaine, J.J. Edwards, C.C. Burris, Committee

From the front page of the Monroe Journal, May 29, 1923

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