p. 539 | Alcohol’s Terrible Warning

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

Alcohol’s Terrible Warning

ANOTHER telling temperance sermon in the shape of a suicide is announced by a New York paper. A young man of good family and connections, trusted head book-keeper of a wholesale house in this city, with a loving wife and children dependent upon him for support, is weighed down by the curse of drink. At midnight he makes his way to the gate of Bellevue Hospital, rings the bell, then puts a pistol to his temple and fires. The porter finds his body lying beside the gate, life already extinct. And in his pocket with a bank bill is found a note saying: "Bury me in the Potters' Field. . . . Cause: Alcohol. Cause: nobody's business!" A sad epitaph, a rare confession, and a terrible warning!