THE SOCIAL GLASS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1880

"THE SOCIAL GLASS."

The brutalizing effect of the use of liquor is well illustrated in the following incident:—

Two brothers reunited in New York last week after a separation of thirty-two years, adopted the foolish practice of celebrating their meeting by large potations of liquor. One was a shoemaker and the other a sailor, and they had not seen each other since 1848, when as young men they separated in Ireland, the one to emigrate to this country, and the other to sail around the world. They were sincerely attached to each other, and their joy at meeting after so long a separation was excessive. But before they had been twenty-four hours in each other's company the liquor they imbibed transformed them into human fiends; they quarreled and fought, and now one of them lies in a hospital in a critical condition, and the other is in prison awaiting trial for assaulting his brother.