WHISKY AND THE WHITE MAN'S GOD

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

WHISKY AND THE WHITE MAN'S GOD.

An Indian named Swift Runner, convicted for murder, was hanged recently at Fort Saskatchewan, Canada. To a priest who sought to give him spiritual consolation he says that "the white man's whisky ruined him, and so he could not believe in the white man's God." He preferred a death dance by his own people, and while they were performing it he was hanged. In the remark of this unlettered, whisky-despoiled Indian is a significant lesson which a professedly Christian people who tolerate, if they do not encourage, the whisky traffic, should profit by.—National Temperance Advocate.