It Does Not Look Like a Converted World.
By Editor
Anthony Comstock, president of the Society for Suppression of Vice, has the following to say on the fathers of the land, and what promise this gives to manhood of the future:— "I must make the startling statement that we are at present developing a race of drunkards. Statistics show that, leaving out the children, there is one drunkard to every forty-two persons. This means that nearly one-half the adult people in the United States drink something else than water.
"As there are 22,000,000 children in the United States, and they are all under the care of this society, I have sufficient evidence to encourage me in my belief that any man who tipples cannot be a good father; not that the greatest wrong is to himself, but because of the wrong done his children. I find that nine out of every ten men who drink had drinking fathers or a drinking family before them. The father says, 'Oh, I only drink a little, you know; it never affects me!' But the father never knows what terrible effects just drinking 'a little' may reveal in his offspring; what awful influence it may have upon the mind and habits of his child.
"You cannot enervate the mind and body and have strength and intellect remain. If you are a father, as you show strength and intellect in yourself, so shall you reap strength and intellect in your children. If drunkenness and licentiousness go hand in hand, if we are generating a drunken race, then we are producing at the same time an unclean race. There is room here, I regret to say, only for the cruel, hard facts. Let thinking men and women consider them." Christ's coming is the only thing which will regenerate the world by sweeping the curse of sin (of which drunkenness is one of the greatest factors), and all those who have identified themselves with sin, with the besom of destruction from the earth.