METHODISM SPEAKS
The viewpoint of the Methodist Church cf New Zealand on the Temperance Question is reflected in excerpts from Reports and Resolutions of the Annual Conference, 1957. ‘‘That while conference welcomes and supports the work of Alcoholics Anonymous and the National So:iety on Alcoholism and has no quarrel with the medical concept of alcoholism as a disease, it reiterates that, since the medical factors have been widely publicised, it is more than ever true, that; “(1) A community which makes alcohol available for consumption and those who choose to drink it, must share the responsibility for the prevalence of this disease, and, ‘‘(2) Personal total abstinence from alcohol and the prohibition of the liquor traffic by the free vote of the people is still the most practical and positive means of preventing the spread of this disei.se. That Conference views with grave concern the growing social custom of serving intoxicating liquors at wedding receptions and calls upon all Methodist people to refrain from this practice.” —Methodist Board of Publications.
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White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 10, 1 June 1958, Page 4
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170METHODISM SPEAKS White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 10, 1 June 1958, Page 4
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