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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 12.

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Drink to Make You Work.

"I DRINK to make me work," said a young man.
To which an old man replied:—
"That's right; thee drink and it will make thee work.
"Hearken to me a moment, and I will tell thee something that may do thee good. I was once a prosperous farmer. I had a good, loving wife, and two as fine lads as ever the sun shone on. We had a comfortable home and lived happily together, but we used to drink ale to make us work. Those two lads I have laid in drunkards' graves. My wife died broken-hearted, and she now lies by her two sons. I am seventy-two years old. Had it not been for drink I might now have been an independent gentleman, but I used to drink to make me work, and mark, it makes me work now. At seventy years of age I am obliged to work for my daily bread. Drink, and it will make thee work."