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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 30, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 33.

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Save the Boys.

From a recent report, issued by the Young Men's Christian Association of Brooklyn, the announcement is quoted: "Less than one-tenth of our young men are in the churches and Sunday-schools; this statement is made after the most careful investigation." Where are the young men? The report answers: "In the city there are two thousand five hundred and sixty-seven licensed liquor saloons, and four hundred and ninety-one licensed billiard and pool-tables, besides hundreds of places where gambling and other vices are indulged in; the vast majority of the patrons are young men." The result of such a condition of things has only to be added to make the report complete: "In one of our largest State prisons two-thirds of the inmates are men, and two-thirds of these are under twenty-six years of age."