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Whisky and Preaching

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 2.

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Whisky and Preaching.

“Saloons and churches” might perhaps be the better term. But men go to saloons to get whisky and to churches to hear preaching. In a district in New York City containing a population of 40,000, a recent investigation by the Society for the Federation of Churches finds 90 saloons, one for every 444 people, while there is one church building for every 4,547 people, and one church organization for every 3,327 persons. This is not a hopeful sign of the popular millennium.