The Annual Cost of Strong Drink

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 21, 1876

The Annual Cost of Strong Drink

SEVEN hundred and fifteen millions of dollars are annually spent in the United States in strong drink. This is only the count in money. Who can make the estimate of the loss of manhood and virtue, of saddened homes and degraded lives? It robs the family of its brightest sons; it degrades the occupants of our most coveted positions; it steals some of the most promising members from our churches, and drags even from the pulpit some of the most eloquent preachers. It is found in alliance with almost every other vice; and wherever it obtains a foothold, it is the forerunner of every sort of degradation.