p. 71 | DRUNKENNESS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 2, 1875

DRUNKENNESS

How many of the churches, of the Christian organization of the land, pass the poor, dying drunkard by, and leave him to perish. It is sickening to see the most vital of moral enterprises so utterly neglected by those who are ready to give money and prayers for the heathen of Asia, but not a syllable or a cent to save the young men from reeling into the damnation of the dram shop. It is sickening to see so many wine glasses on the tables of so many professing Christians, and to hear so many sneers at teetotal fanatics from lips that are fluent in orthodox creeds and confessions. All the assaults of infidelity against the church of Christ do not harm her half so much as her own lamentable neglect of the drunkard, and her own silence under the terrific iniquity of the liquor traffic. If every church in the land would do its duty, we should soon see a suppression of the great majority of the rum dens, which are now feeding the grave with victims,—Sel.