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Russia's Great Revolution THe True 



Story of tKe World's Most Gigantic 



Temperance Experiment x 



By Margaret Wintringer 



A great army drunk and a small army sober, and the dramatic 

 defeat of that great army, was one of the big factors in 

 Russia's fight for temperance. America should study 

 Russia's experience because in the more than twenty years 

 of that fight the great Empire tried " every restriction which 

 the frantic friends of a doomed traffic are clamorously 

 urging in our own country" before the great culmination in 

 the Czar's famous ukase. 



No experiment tried out in the temperance labora- 

 tory of Europe during the present war has excited 

 such a world-wide interest as that which has wrought 

 the regeneration of Russia. 



So marvellous and yet so simple, it made a strong 

 psychological appeal to the strain of mysticism 

 inherent in the Russian peasant. It was like a fairy 

 tale, in which the ukase of the Czar was the enchanted 

 wand which transformed by its magic power that 

 ragged, sodden peasantry into an awakened princess 



1 With permission of the Sunday School Times. 



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