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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 30, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 48.

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The Drink Demon

By Arthur M. Growden

WHAT noble intellects have been destroyed by this demon! Alexander the Great fell before it. He conquered others, but lost the great moral battle.
Byron, the gifted poet, came to his end at thirty-seven. Drink destroyed his powers, and cast his body, dishonored, into the grave.
Edgar Allan Poe, likewise, was vanquished; and William Pitt, the younger, lost his powers through alcohol. Charles Lamb, also, and William Brinsley Sheridan, and Edmund Kean, and Coleridge, son of the poet and friend of Wordsworth, were claimed likewise.
It has been truly said by Gladstone, "Drunkenness expels reason, drowns memory, distempers the body, defaces beauty, diminishes strength, inflames the blood." In the battle of life let no young man dream of success who indulges this evil taste. He cannot win. Every great corporation and railroad has ruled it out; the individual must do the same. Destroy the demon lest he destroy you.—Arthur M. Growden.