Intemperance Impeached

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1883

Intemperance Impeached.

DR. CHALMERS arraigned intemperance in the following words: "Before God and man, before the church, the world, I impeach intemperance. I charge it with the murder of innumerable souls. I charge it as the cause of almost all the poverty, and almost all the crime, and almost all the ignorance, and almost all irreligion that disgrace and afflict the land. I do in my conscience believe that these intoxicating stimulants have sunk into perdition more men and women than found a grave in the deluge which swept over the highest hill-tops, engulfing the world, of which but eight were saved. As compared with other vices, it may be said of this, 'Saul hath slain his thousands, but this David his ten thousands.'"—Selected.