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The Spendthrift and the Thief

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 4.

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The Spendthrift and the Thief

The spendthrift and the thief are twins. When a man goes to the opera about four or five times in a week, drinks a social glass, smokes the best cigars, and plays for fun with "gentlemen," draw poker for a ten-dollar stake he is educating himself up to the point of tapping a till or abstracting a bank bill from his employer's money.