The Church Manual (Church of the Brethren)/Chapter 7
CHAPTER VII
TEMPERANCE.
We believe temperance to be a moderate use of the things that are essential and useful, and total abstinence from such things as are harmful or lead to evil, 1 Thess. 5: 22. The Brethren church has ever been a standing monument against the manufacture, sale and use of intoxicating liquors of all kinds as a beverage, admitting their use only when necessary for medical and mechanical purposes.