Suggestive by Mrs. O. U. Whitford

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 45.

Suggestive.

By Mrs. O. U. Whitford

THE liquor trade of the United States of America swallows up $900,000,000, and destroys 100,000 lives annually.

The contributions of all the Protestant churches and societies in the world for the conversion of the heathen have never yet amounted to ten millions in a year! In New York City it is said that $7,000,000 are expended annually in theater-going and other kindred amusements; that $125,000,000 are expended annually upon silks, satins, laces, and other imported "fancy" dress goods, not including kid gloves, the value of which alone, imported into New York every year, is ten times as much as the amount given by all the societies in America to foreign missions.—Mrs. O. U. Whitford.