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A PERMANENT INJURY

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 19, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 19.

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A PERMANENT INJURY.

THERE are constantly crowding into our insane asylums persons fifty to eighty years of age, who in early life were addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors, but who have reformed, and for ten, twenty, or thirty years, have never touched a drop. The injury which the liquor did to their bodies seemed to have all disappeared, being triumphed over by the full vigor of their manhood, but when their natural force began to decrease, then the concealed mischief showed itself in insanity, clearly demonstrating that the injury to their bodies was of a permanent character.