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Rum-Selling and Western Civilization

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 32.

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Rum-Selling and Western Civilization

The meanest fact connected with our Western civilization is that it carries rum-selling invariably in its wake. From one end of the Turkish Empire to the other there is not a grog shop kept by a Mohammedan. A recent writer says of India, that in spite of Hindoo and Mohammedan religious antagonism, Christian civilization is carrying the curse of liquor-drinking into their families. There are some things besides charity that ought to begin at home. Would it not be well for us to import a cargo of Mohammedan missionaries?—Echoes.