Beware of the First Drink by Rev. Holmes

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 15, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 49.

Beware of the First Drink

By Rev. Holmes

HE was unmistakably drunk. He was so from choice — his own choice. At some time he took what is called “his first drink.” Had he not done so, he would never have been as he was when he staggered by, making the movements of those who encountered him almost as uncertain as his own. Had he never taken that first drink, there would have been no second, and no such exhibition as he was making of himself in broad day on the crowded thorofare. But he had taken the “first drink,” and the second, and many another, and there he was to be jeered at, laughed at, scorned or pitied, according to the sentiment that ruled in the mind of the passer.—Rev. Holmes.