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Gin Shops and Churches in New York

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 19, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 5.

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Gin Shops and Churches in New York

By Editor

In the First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards of New York, there are 1,673 gin shops and nine churches. These tell volumes. We do not wonder that crime, lust and degradation hold high carnival in these localities. Is it right to build costly churches on spacious avenues, and leave Satan and wicked men in almost undisputed empire of large portions of the city?