p. 426 | THE RESPONSIBILITY by New York Sun

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 7, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 27.

THE RESPONSIBILITY.

By New York Sun

INSTEAD, therefore, of putting the responsibility for liquor on God, we advise the clergy to lay the whole blame for it on men, as a dangerous luxury which God compels them neither to produce nor consume any more than he compels them to do anything else. Moreover, it is questionable whether the influence of the clergy in preventing the abuse of liquor would not be strengthened greatly if they refrained wholly from its use themselves. Besides, being usually emotional men of sedentary habits, they are better off without such a stimulant. The habit of drinking, dangerous for everybody, is especially dangerous for them, in their own persons and in the example they set for other people.—New York Sun.