A Widening Work

The activity of the members of the health and temperance societies was not limited to the signing of pledges. They circulated many thousands of pages of well-prepared educational literature, and some qualified themselves as lecturers, freely giving their time and energies to the cause. Thus, in addition to its helpful influence upon church members, the movement led to the reformation of hundreds of nonbelievers.SHM 234.4

In 1889 a class was formed at the sanitarium to study health and temperance subjects; and from this class, which held winter sessions for several years, a number of efficient lecturers, teachers, and workers in other departments of the work went out under the auspices of the American Health and Temperance Association.SHM 235.1

The association continued its activities until 1893, when it was merged into the Seventh-day Adventist Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, which included the purposes of its predecessor, but represented a far broader field of endeavor.SHM 235.2