Temperance | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 32.

Temperance.

ON the revenue from the sale of liquors Wesley said: "However, what is paid (the duty) brings in a large revenue to the king.' Is this an equivalent for the lives of his subjects? Would his majesty sell 100,000 of his subjects yearly to Algiers for £500,000? Surely, no! Will he then sell them for that sum to be butchered by their own countrymen? 'But otherwise the swine for the navy cannot be fed.' Not unless they are fed with human flesh! Not unless they are fatted with human blood! Oh! tell it not in Constantinople that the English raise the royal revenue by selling the flesh and blood of their countrymen."

WE get a sense of the horrible evils of the drinking curse when we read, in a report by the chaplain of the Magdalen Asylum, of this city, that of eighty-nine fallen women in the asylum at one time, all but two had fallen through drink. A lady missionary among this class says that of two thousand known personally to her, there were only ten cases in which intoxicating liquors were not in large part responsible for their fall. Here is another illustration of the immense blessing to be expected from prohibition.—N. Y. Independent.

THERE has been introduced into the New York assembly a bill which prohibits the sale of cigarettes or tobacco to minors under sixteen years of age. A law to that effect already exists in New Jersey, and its example might advantageously be followed in other States.

EVERY moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would, and every inebriate would if he could.

"Rule and ruin," is the motto of alcohol.