p. 11 | A DOUBLE KNOCK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 10, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 32.

A DOUBLE KNOCK.

“It's knocking down his wife the man knocked me out of the liquor trade.” In these words Mr. F. N. Charrington, so well known in connection with religious and temperance work in East London, begins his account of the way in which he was led to sever his connection with the great brewing firm of Charrington, Head & Co., of which he was a partner. The man in question was drinking in a public-house which Mr. Charrington happened to be passing. His wife just at that moment pushed open the door, and appealed to her husband for money to buy bread to feed their starving children. By way of answer her husband felled her to the ground. Mr. Charrington noticed that the signboard bore the name of his firm. He reflected that this particular house probably furnished many such cases, and that the same was true of hundreds of other houses owned by the company. The responsibility was more than he could bear, and from that hour he resolved to give up his partnership, worth about £30,000 a year.—Selected.