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Jennifer Woodruff Tait (PhD, Duke University) is the managing editor of Christian History magazine, the author of The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism, and a priest in the Episcopal Church.

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Christian teetotalers of previous generations were radically committed to the common good. The Methodists defined temperance as "distinctively a Christian virtue, enjoined in the Holy Scriptures. It implies a subordination of all the emotions, passions, and appetites to the control of reason and conscience. Temperance--defined as total abstinence, not just moderation--was a progressive cause in 19th century america, and one rooted in what was understood to be the best science available.
 
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