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The Fearful Curse

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 9, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 2.

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The Fearful Curse.

The story can never be told, that of the curse of intemperance, till God’s books shall open; but, O, what volumes open before us here! Think of this: Lady Henry Somerset says in the Sunday School Times: “One saloon [only one] in London which, with a neighboring branch belonging to the same firm, was sold some little time ago for £101,200, was watched during one Sunday [only one day in the week], with the result that 377 women with babies in their arms were seen to enter its doors, and the total number of children visiting the saloon on that one Sunday was 2,712.” What does all this promise?