Drunk | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1878

Drunk.

Young man, did you ever stop to think how terrible that word sounds? Did you ever think what misery and woe you brought upon your friends, when you degraded your manhood by getting drunk? Oh, it is a fearful thing to trample under foot the high claims that God and man have upon you. Drunk! how it rings in the ear of a loving wife! How it makes the heart of a fond mother bleed! How it crushes out the hopes of doting fathers, and brings reproach and shame upon loving sisters. Drunk! See him as he leans against some friendly house. He stands ready to fall in the open jaws of hell, unconscious as to his approaching fate. The wife with tearful eyes and aching heart, sits at the window to hear her husband’s footsteps, but alas, they come not! He is drunk, spending his time and money, when he should be at home enjoying the pleasures and comforts of the family circle. Drunk! He is spending the means of support for liquor, while his family is starving for bread, his children suffering for clothing. Drunk! His reputation is going, gone? His friends, one by one, are reluctantly leaving him to his miserable fate. He goes down to his grave “unhonored and unsung.” Drunk!—Sel.