from the Christian standpoint, beginning with the fall of Adam, when self-control and moral power were lost to the human race. Then she showed that through Jesus self-control and “moral power” are restored, enabling the believer to overcome “the slavery of habit and indulgence of perverted appetite” (ibid. 265). “Temperance alone,” she wrote, “is the foundation of all the graces that come from God, the foundation of all victories to be gained” (ibid. 201). Temperance therefore has its foundation