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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 19, 1882

One Glass of Rum.

MR. BARNETT, while conducting a temperance meeting, related this incident: "What one glass did for a man."

He said he was attending a meeting where temperance experience was told. One man arose and told what one glass had done for him. He said:—

"I had a little vessel on the coast; she had four men besides myself. I had my wife and two children on board; the night was stormy, and my brother was to stand watch that night; the seamen prevailed on him to take 'one glass' to help him perform his duties; but, being unaccustomed to liquor, he fell asleep, and in the night I awoke to find my vessel a wreck; took my wife and one of my little ones in my arms, and she took the other, and for hours we battled with the cold waves. After hours of suffering, the waves swept my little one from my embrace; then, after more hours of suffering, the waves swept my other little one from my wife's arms, and our two little dears were lost from us forever. After more battling with the storm and waves, I looked at my wife, and behold she was cold in death. I made my way to the shore, and here I am—my wife, my children, and all my earthly possessions lost for 'one glass of rum.'"