Your ShelfYour Projects

The Cost of Strong Drink

50%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Oct 2, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 40.

Read the full edition

The Cost of Strong Drink

THERE is more poverty in the world to-day caused by strong drink than by any other enemy of mankind. One thousand dollars seems a large amount of money; one thousand thousand, or one million, seems much larger still; but such sums pale into insignificance when compared with one thousand million—one billion—dollars, the sum spent in this country for liquor, every year.