The need and demand came from every quarter for facts, statistics, arguments and appeals upon every phase of the question, in neat, cheap and compact form, which, could be sent everywhere and used by everybody.

Public opinion had settled down against us, and light was needed to arouse it to right action.

The pulpit and the platform were to be supplemented by the press, which, henceforth, was to be used in this great and rapidly strengthening cause, as in every other, to reach the individuals and homes of every portion of the land." AFTER TWELVE YEARS.
"Twelve years have passed--years of anxious preparation and toil, of seed-planting and sowing, and they have been improved.

This society now publishes books and tracts upon the moral, economical, physiological, political, financial, religious, medical and social phases of the reform.

We have the writings of over two hundred different persons in almost every walk and station in life.