A Drunkard's Last Will

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 8, 1882

A Drunkard's Last Will.

I DIE a wretched sinner, and I leave to the world a worthless reputation, a wicked example, and a memory that is only fit to perish. I leave to my parents sorrow and bitterness of soul all the days of their lives. I leave to my brothers and sisters shame and grief, and the reproach of their acquaintances. I leave my wife widowed and heart-broken, and a life of lonely struggling with want and suffering. I leave my children a tainted name, and a ruined position, a pitiful ignorance, and the mortifying recollection of a father, who, by his life, disgraced humanity, and at his premature death joined the great company of those who are never to enter the kingdom of God.—Selected.