Moderate Drinking by Mrs. Molloy

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 11.

Moderate Drinking.

By Mrs. Molloy

A YOUNG man, with an inherited taste for liquor, was at a Masonic festival, where was also an English clergyman who was in the habit of freely drinking beer. He called for a bottle, and offered a glass to the young man: "Mr. Cushing, have a glass of beer with me." I looked at him and said, "Don't you dare to touch it." Said the clergyman, sneeringly, "Are you his mental adviser? I hope you are able to take a glass without making a fool of yourself." The young man said, "If my pastor can drink, so can I." He took it. At the end of three weeks he died of strong drink. During his deliriums he exclaimed, in his agony, "God won't damn me for drinking unless he also damns Dr. Richmond." That minister murdered my friend, but he walks the earth to-day, unhung.—Mrs. Molloy.