THE BAR | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 32.

THE BAR.

Young man, has not your eye been frequently attracted to a sign having the following common word on it, "Bar"? Avoid the place; it is no misnomer. The experience of thousands have proved it to be:— A bar to respectability; A bar to honor; A bar to fame; A bar to happiness; A bar to home felicity; A bar to heaven.

Every day proves it to be:— The road to degradation; The road to vice; The road to the gambler's hell; The road to the brothel; The road to poverty; The road to wretchedness; The road to want; The road to robbery; The road to murder; The road to prison; The road to the gallows; The road to the drunkard's grave; The road to hell.

—Selected.