The Harmful Habits of Society

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 40.

The Harmful Habits of Society

WHAT is to become of us? With the morphine habit making a host of liars; the quinine habit, a ghostly band of nerveless, would-be suicides; the tobacco habit giving us a tendency to cancer, and what not; the whisky habit taking people by crooked ways to early graves; the money habit filling the country with avaricious speculators, thieves, and bank-robbers; the office-seeking habit turning honest people away from honest work to getting an office,—it does seem that we are generally in a bad way.—Columbia (S. C.) Register.