p. 285 | Medical Drunkards

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 22, 1882

Medical Drunkards

MEDICAL DRUNKARDS.—Let me say that of all persons that have not yet become drunkards, the most pitiable are they who are drinking liquor under medical advice. Others drink it upon their own responsibility, and therefore with more or less caution. But these drink it upon the highest authority, and therefore with no fear of consequences. Other tipplers restrain their appetite through shame of being seen to indulge in it boldly; these drink under the impervious plea that they are but taking medicine. Other tipplers are open to admonition and reformation. In a word, whilst the one drinking intoxicating liquor without excuse and therefore against conscience—against that voice of God in the soul—may stop ere it be too late; the other drinking it for health, and therefore with an approving conscience, will probably never stop until life stops. Emphatically true is it that no other tippler is going so surely to the drunkard’s grave, as the one who lets his doctor lead him to it.—Ex.