The Temperance Work presents Ellen White's comprehensive counsel on temperance reform as both health advocacy and gospel ministry. This pamphlet addresses the temperance movement's role in Adventist mission, methods for effective advocacy, and the spiritual dimensions of physical habits. White typically covered: temperance principles (complete abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, harmful substances), organizing temperance societies, conducting public lectures and rallies, distributing temperance literature, legislative efforts for prohibition, and connections between physical indulgence and spiritual weakness. The pamphlet emphasized that temperance work prepares people for receiving fuller truth, that Adventists should lead temperance reform, and that victory over appetite demonstrates character strength needed for final crisis. Temperance advocacy serves both humanitarian and evangelistic purposes.
Temperance workers, health evangelists, public speakers, legislative advocates, and believers understanding temperance reform's role in preparing people for truth.