p. 537 | Where to Send Drunkards

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 29, 1883

Where to Send Drunkards

A prominent citizen of Lincoln County, Ill., having fallen a victim to intemperate habits, became so unfit for business that, as a last resort, he fled to Kansas to escape temptation. After being there a while he writes a letter from Ottawa, Kansas, to a friend, as follows:—

“John, I have seen over a dozen men who had been confirmed drunkards and who came here to reform; all have succeeded. One man told me he came here two years ago, had been drunk twenty years and came here drunk, but has never touched liquor since. The fact is, when a man gets here he is bound to reform; he can't get whisky if he wants it.”