A Tippler's Prayer

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

A Tippler's Prayer.

I REMEMBER a poor victim of drink telling a Christian woman how he had been struggling against the desire for it, and had prayed to God, with the tears streaming down his face. The good woman turned round on him, saying, "I'll tell you how it was your prayer was not answered." "How was it?" "Because the desire for grace was not so strong as the craving for drink. If you really renounce the cup, your prayer will be heard." There is a good truth here—safe and wholesome. What should we think of a man who should deliberately thrust his head into the lion's mouth, or his hand into a den of rattlesnakes, and then pray God to keep him from being harmed? Prayer is a duty, undoubtedly; so also is the admonition to "Flee from evil and pass by it."

— Baptist Weekly.