TEMPERANCE NOTES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1892

TEMPERANCE NOTES.

THERE are persons who are amused by the grotesque antics and absurd acts of drunken men, but the drunkards they laugh at are not members of their own families. It is no joke to have a man or child come home drunk; and what wonder is it that a man, finding his son in a drunken stupor, should gird on the armor to fight a traffic which can work such horrible results. And it is well to remember one thing: if it is not your boy who is drunk, it is somebody's boy.—The Christian.

THIS is the way the New Jersey Temperance Gazette puts it: "If prohibitory laws are wrong in principle, then all license laws are wrong in principle, as every license law implies prohibition; all are prohibited who do not obtain license. If it is right to prohibit 299 men from selling rum, why is it wrong to prohibit the 300th man? The principle of prohibition is the same under the license system to all except licensed venders as it is under a universal prohibitory law, inasmuch as all are prohibited from selling except those to whom license is granted."

THERE is not one man or woman in ten thousand who can afford to do without seven or eight hours' sleep. All those stories written about great men and women who slept only three or four hours a night make very interesting reading; but I tell you, my readers, no man or woman ever yet kept healthy in body and mind for a number of years with less than seven hours' sleep. Americans need more sleep than they are getting. This lack makes them so nervous, and the insane asylums so populous. If you can get to bed early, then rise early. If you cannot get to bed till late, then rise late.—Talmage.