A RUINED LIFE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 34.

A RUINED LIFE.

ONE of the best Greek scholars in New York is a guard on the 6th Avenue elevated road. One morning I was rewarded by meeting the learned man. I asked him, "How does it happen," showing him my card, "that you, a Greek scholar of first rank, should be doing such work as this?" He looked at me sadly, and his red face grew more flushed than usual; "I was the best Hellenist of my year at Dublin," he said. "My Greek is still what it used to be, but my career has been ruined by whisky."—Selected.