The Testimony of Sixty Years.
The following is not the testimony of one or twenty men, but of thousands abstaining and other thousands not abstaining: The United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution of England has been in existence sixty years. It has kept strictly separate accounts of its Abstinence Division and its Non-Abstinence Division. Such is the difference that the company grants to abstainers a rebate of fifteen per cent. on their annual premiums, whereas non-abstainers are required to pay in full. Based on such statistics, T. P. Whittaker, M. P., in the Contemporary Review of March, 1904, states: “It will be observed that during the strenuous working years of manhood, from twenty-five to sixty years of age, the annual mortality rates among abstainers were, on the average, forty per cent. lower than among non-abstainers.”