One Drink Cost His Life by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 11, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 10.

One Drink Cost His Life

By Editor

"One Drink Cost His Life."—This was the heading to a newspaper paragraph a few days ago. An unidentified man was found dead. He had got drunk, quarreled with some others, and was killed. How much of crime, and murder, and suicide, and indescribable miseries are chargeable to that "one drink" that so many men and women have dared to take? When the consequences are so fully and so generally known, why is it that there are so many that will dare to take the fearful risk?