The Drunkard's Will

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 7, 1883

The Drunkard's Will.

I LEAVE society a ruined character, wretched example, and a memory that will soon rot.

I leave my parents during the rest of their life, as much sorrow as humanity in a declining state can sustain.

I leave to my brothers and sisters as much mortification and injury as I could bring on them.

I leave to my wife a broken heart, a life of wretchedness and shame, to weep over my premature death.

I give and bequeath to each of my children, poverty, ignorance, and low character, and the remembrance that their father was a monster