Excited

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1874

EXCITED.—The Rev. Dr. Arnot, having been charged with “excitement” when speaking on total abstinence, has replied, “People need not tell me that I am excited on these questions. I know that I am. I should be ashamed before God and man if I were not. There is more in the public houses of Glasgow to stir the spirit of a minister than all Paul saw at Athens. In my ministry I meet the horrid fruit of these whisky-shops. I see men and women perishing in these pit-falls. The number of the victims is so great that it overwhelms me. The church is asleep and the world, too, and they are hugging each other. I am weary with holding; I must cry. I would rather be counted singular in the judgment of men than be unfaithful in the judgment of God.”