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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 5.

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Fitting Names.

“MANY a true word is spoken in jest.”
Standing, the other day, near the entrance of the saloon of a large hotel at the seaside, we saw several young men pass in. As they stood at the bar, one said to another, with a smile: “Nominate your poison!” He had said a terribly true thing in joke. Yes, name your poison—just the word! And they swallowed the poison and went their way. Soon another party went in. Said the leader to his companion, as they leaned against the slab, “What is your family trouble?” meaning “What will you drink?” “Family trouble!”—rightly named; for what has made such domestic misery as liquor? And we walked away feeling that we had learned two new and strikingly appropriate names for liquor: “poison” and “family trouble.”—Watchman and Reflector.