CHURCH TEMPERANCE SOCIETY
A national organization of the Episcopal Church in the United States for the promotion of temperance. It was founded in New York in 1881, on the lines which the Church of England Temperance Society had been pursuing for ten years previously. Its president is the presiding bishop of the Church. The society stands for a policy of high license as opposed to prohibition, and has done effective work through legislative channels. It has also endeavored to provide substitutes for the saloon, the "Squirrel Inn," on the Bowery, in New York City, being the most notable example. In the same city it maintains lunch-wagons, and has built and maintained seventeen free ice-water fountains. In connection with the society's work there is a Church Temperance Legion, which provides moral, civic, and military training for boys. Source: The New International Encyclopaedia Copyright: 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 Publisher: Dodd, Mead and company--New York Volumes: Total of 21 volumes __________________________________________ Transcribed by Miriam Medina RETURN to SOCIETY Main RETURN to BROOKLYN MAIN