p. 85 | Drunkenness Increasing by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1871

Drunkenness Increasing.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

How is it possible for ministers to preach that the world is becoming better, with such terrible facts to the contrary before them? Some are honest enough to speak out. Hear the Rev. T. L. Cuyler:—

What will you drink? This is the established formula now in divers places—from the gentleman’s dining-table down to the bar of a country tavern on town-meeting day. Tippling is on the increase. The use of alcoholic medicines is on the increase. The wine-bottle is slyly stealing back again into certain circles from which it was once banished, and “Bourbon” is becoming as common in sick-rooms as paregoric used to be in our nurseries. Half of the customers of the restaurants, at least, call for liquors every day at their dinner. As a natural result, diseases of the kidneys are increasing in frequency, brandy-flavored breaths are detected in cars and in nearly every crowd, and drunkenness is growing frightfully! The number of those who are rescued from the terrible habit and restored to sobriety cannot be more than one out of every twenty.

Let the reader compare this with Isa. 56 : 9–12.

D. M. CANRIGHT.