Minutes of the Overseas Joint Temperance Committee

Signed typed minutes of the Overseas Joint Temperance Committee. Minutes principally concentrate on the issue of alcoholic consumption in mission areas and how to promote temperance through literature, legislation, campaigns, etc, and notes alcohol issues in specific countries. Other social welfare...

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Order number: MMS/Home & General/Minutes/Box 1388
Date(s) of creation: 7 Jan 1924-9 Jun 1944
Level: File
Format: Archive           

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title Minutes of the Overseas Joint Temperance Committee
scb_date_creation 7 Jan 1924-9 Jun 1944
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scb_admin_history The General Committee of the Temperance and Social Welfare Department of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Church at a meeting of 27 September [1923] invited the co-operation of the 'Foreign Missionary Society' [Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society] so that 'the attention of the Church should be called to the evils of alcoholism amongst native peoples'. The resulting Overseas Joint Temperance Committee comprised members from the WMMS and the Temperance Department, with the later addition of a representative from the WMMS Women's Auxiliary. The committee began its work by sending a questionnaire to each mission field to ascertain the extent of alcohol related problems, what action the local Church was taking, what action the local authorities were taking and also the situation amongst British and European settlers.
description Signed typed minutes of the Overseas Joint Temperance Committee. Minutes principally concentrate on the issue of alcoholic consumption in mission areas and how to promote temperance through literature, legislation, campaigns, etc, and notes alcohol issues in specific countries. Other social welfare issues discussed include the trade in opium, gambling, greyhound racing in China and cinematic films. Front of volume has lists of committee members between 1934 to 1938 and an incomplete handwritten index.
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scb_copyright Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
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