WHISKY AS A MEDICINE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 24.

WHISKY AS A MEDICINE.

An inmate of the South Dakota penitentiary, in telling his experience to the Life Boat, gives this testimony:

“It is because of my own weakness and an unwise prescription that I am in this prison. The doctor prescribed whisky as medicine—a large glassful four times a day for six months, and I took this prescription, thinking as all do that I could quit any time I wished to. It was whisky that got me into the penitentiary. From this day I intend, with the help of God, to do differently. Would you advise public confession of Christ here in the prison chapel? I have seen convicts hold up their hands for prayer and have heard the remarks made by fellow convicts, and have wondered if it did not do more harm than good to make a stand for Christ here in this place. Do you think that I could be a Christian without this public confession? I have served the devil good and faithfully for thirty-five years, and all he did for me was to land me in the penitentiary. I am done with him forever.”