The Increase of Alcoholism
The “American Advance,” a Prohibitionist paper, quoting from the Alliance News, says, “Forty per cent of the pupils in one London school, it is found, drink alcohol regularly, and it is estimated that there are some 2,000,000 school children throughout England who are addicted to the use of intoxicating liquor.” There is no denying the fact that the use of strong drink is alarmingly on the increase, and that, too, despite the hard work that is being done by our comrades in the temperance cause. Who can picture what the condition would be in this world were it not for what is being done to stay the tide of evil! We must do everything in our power to hold in check the inroads of the demon of alcoholism, and while doing this work we should know that drunkenness and wickedness will increase more and more until they are finally smitten down in that near-by day when the Lord Jesus Christ will come in person to put an end to all sin. With the great event of His coming before us, and with the thrilling joys of that blessed hope in our hearts, we must heroically grapple with the demons of darkness, doing our utmost in His strength to rescue souls from the evil of this time.