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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 46.

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RESPONSIBILITY.

SOME time ago a good, Christian mother was advised to give brandy to her delicate baby boy in his food. One day the brandy bottle was empty, and no one was in the house to send for a fresh supply, so the mother prepared the food without its usual flavoring spirit. To her amazement the babe spat it out with evident lack of relish. With horror she realized that she had already fastened upon her infant child the deadly alcoholic appetite. Being a woman of quick resolve and firm determination, she said to the little one: "Well, my boy, if you will not take your food without brandy, you can go hungry until you will." How few mothers would have recognized the danger until it was too late!—Selected.