Build a responsible youth temperance movement with a detailed, historical guide.
This nonfiction manual offers step-by-step instructions for organizing and running a company of Loyal Crusaders, a youth-focused branch tied to the temperance movement. It covers how to recruit boys and girls, appoint leadership, and structure ranks, ceremonies, and committees. The text also provides opening services, enlistment rituals, and ways to engage families, churches, and schools in a positive, values-driven program. Authored as a practical guide, it emphasizes abstinence, moral instruction, and community involvement through parades, songs, and public meetings. The material is presented as a complete kit for volunteers and divisions seeking to educate and inspire young people toward healthy, responsible choices.
- How to start a Loyal Crusaders company, appoint officers, and assign roles like commander, sergeants, ensigns, and finance teams.
- Rituals, opening services, pledge guidance, and regular meeting rhythms designed for youth.
- Practical tips for outreach, fundraising, parental involvement, and coordinating with local temperance organizations.
- Rules around membership, discipline, transfers, reporting, and the goal of teaching abstinence and anti-alcohol values.
Ideal for readers of historical reform movements, organizational handbooks, or anyone researching early temperance youth programs and their community impact. This edition serves as a window into the structure, language, and methods used to mobilize young people for social change.
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Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a manual dedicated to organizing and operating a children's organization within the Sons of Temperance, a temperance society that flourished in North America in the late 19th century. The manual provides step-by-step guidelines for organizing a Company of what are called Loyal Crusaders, a youth wing of the larger organization dedicated to educating the youth about temperance and the evils of alcohol use. The book also includes rules, regulations, pledge forms, instructions on conducting meetings, and enlistment ceremonies, as well as goals and parameters for the organization, offering insights into the strategies for organizations with similar values and objectives in the modern day. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781334672316_0
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # LW-9781334672316
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # LW-9781334672316
Quantity: 15 available