Results of Drinking

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

Results of Drinking.

The places of judicature I have long held in this kingdom, have given me an opportunity to observe the original cause of most of the enormities that have been committed for the space of nearly twenty years; and by due observation I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issue and product of excessive drinking—of tavern and ale-house drinking.—Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice, England, about 1670.