Good Templars, a temperance society founded in the United States in 1852 and introduced into England in 1868. Their organisation is largely modelled on that of the Freemasons, total abstinence principles being furthered by means of lodges, pass-words, grips, and insignia. See TEMPERANCE.
Good Templars
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 295
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