p. 9 | What Would You Do? by Adelaide Bee Evans

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 1, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 34.

What Would You Do?

By Adelaide Bee Evans

What Will You Do?

By ADELAIDE BEE EVANS

If kidnapers were carrying away the children of our town to hold them for a ransom, if wild beasts were infesting the paths they must take on their way to school, if wide-spread contagion threatened them with blight and deformity, what would happen? What would you do?

What occurs when one child is lured away, lost to its mother's caresses, its father's love?—Ten thousand voices are at once raised in its behalf; ten thousand pens take up the cry; all the machinery of the law, every agency at the command of the state, is set in operation to restore the child to its parents, and to punish those who through it have sought to enrich themselves.

The alcohol evil is particularly the enemy of the child—an enemy so cruel, so destructive, so blighting, that it should be fought by every means within the power of home-loving, child-loving men and women. It must be reached by strong laws; it must be antagonized and overcome; it must be bound and cast out. What will you do?