Rev. S. F. Millikan

MILLIKAN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/11/2012 at 08:22:05

Maquoketa Excelsior, May 10, 1895

From the Wyoming Journal's report of the W. C. T. U. convention held in that city last week we clip: Rev. Millikan of Anamosa delivered the address of the evening. He is a fine talker, but the kernel of his theme was that temperance was the result of education and breeding; that so long as corn grew, intoxicating liquors would be manufactured and by some people used as a beverage. However, he believed in the educational work of temperance beginning in the fathers and mothers, running through the nursery, kindergarten, public schools, churches and life of the individual, line upon line, precept upon precept, to the attainment of that perfection possible on earth prior to the chaining down of Satan, but his lecture gave little hope, if any, of absolute prohibition thid side of the Millenium.