Thank You" and "Please by John B. Gough

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 3, 1882

"Thank You" and "Please."

By John B. Gough

It is a grand thing to be associated with men and women trying to make a drunkard sober. I went to a little mission chapel in New York, and the speakers, of whom there were many, were allowed only a minute each. One woman said in that minute what thrilled me through and through. "The love of Jesus has made my husband and myself mannerly. We used to swear at one another, now we say, 'Thank ye,' and 'Please.'" I tell you, the preaching of infidelity and of all the scientists cannot produce an effect like that in one hundred years, nor yet in five hundred years.