1855 INDIANA PROHIBITION. Rare Letter Celebrating 1855 Indiana Prohibition. Close the Grog Shops! Evangelical From a Late London Edition

From a Late London Edition

The way in which you have served the mission and ourselves has etched in our minds the most grateful feelings towards you and especially towards Him whose we are and whom we serve in the Gospel of His Son

A wonderful example of a finely preserved United States Treasury Department specimen book

For the Use of the Family in After Days

and upon completing his training at the missionary institute was dispatched in 1841 to South-West Africa to further the work of Heinrich Schmelen [1776–1848] who had been based at what is now Bethanie

1855 INDIANA PROHIBITION. Rare Letter Celebrating 1855 Indiana Prohibition. Close the Grog Shops! Evangelical From a Late London EditionA rather interesting February 12, 1855 letter with detailed account of the passage of the 1855 Act of Prohibition in Indiana, passed after the Maine Act, and here declared to be even more severe. The act would go into effect on July 4th of the same year and impose severe financial fines and imprisonment for producers and distributors. Extracts: "We are enjoying good health and have plenty of mush and milk, so you see we have no reason to grumble. I