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FOR THE LOVE OF HIS MOTHER

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 24.

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FOR THE LOVE OF HIS MOTHER.

The late Col. Thomas H. Benton, author of the "Thirty Years' View," lived thirty years amidst all the temptations of fashionable, dissipated life in Washington, yet never could be tempted to touch his lips to a glass of liquor. At one time, being pressed by his friends to say why he was so severely strict in refusing to take a "social glass," he replied, with great solemnity: "My father died when I was eight years old, and my poor mother struggled hard to give me an education. On her deathbed she asked me to promise that I would never drink. I did so, and shall never break my promise." Col. Benton died at the advanced age of seventy-six.