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IN THE FINAL ACCOUNTING

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 7.

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IN THE FINAL ACCOUNTING.

By A. P.

A LITTLE girl who had been taught the physical evils of tobacco using as well as of intoxicating liquors, spent her vacation at the home of an uncle. This uncle kept a small store, and among the articles sold were tobacco and cigars. One day Florence said to him, “Uncle, what makes you sell tobacco? don’t you know it hurts people?”
“I don’t suppose it does any particular good,” he replied.
“Then,” persisted the little reformer, “why do you do it?”
He laughingly answered, “O, for the money, I guess.”
“Uncle,” she said, with a very serious face, “when you get to heaven, won’t you awfully dread to tell God that?”
Her words caused an arrest of thought, that later resulted in the banishment of narcotics from the list of articles sold at that store.—A. P.