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Intemperance in Bengál

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 9.

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Intemperance in Bengál

A LETTER from India reports that one of the serious obstacles to the work of teaching the children of the poor is the increasing intemperance of the lower classes in Bengál.
Within a few years the price of intoxicating liquor has become so low, and the manufacture of it so general, that even the women and the children are forming intemperate habits.
Ten years ago, the writer says, an intoxicated woman or child was never seen, but now the sight is common.
Not unfrequently the schools are broken up by a drunken row, and the children are sometimes found too drunk to read.
The schools have to be moved in some instances in order to get the pupils away from the sight and stench of the public stills.