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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 25, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 17.

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STOP AND THINK.

By Eben E. Rexford

My boy, when they ask you to drink, Stop and think. Just think of the danger ahead, Of the hearts that in sorrow have bled O'er hopes that were drowned in the bowl, Filled with death for the body and soul.
When you hear a man asking for drink, Stop and think. The draught that he drinks will destroy High hopes and ambitions, my boy; And a man, who the leader might be, Is a slave that no man's hand can free.
O, this terrible demon of drink! Stop and think. Of the graves where the victims are laid, Of the ruin and wo it has made, Of the wives and the mothers who pray For the curse to be taken away.
Yes, when you are tempted to drink, Stop and think Of the danger that lurks in the bowl, The death that it brings to the soul, The harvest of sin and of wo, And spurn back the tempter with, "No." —Eben E. Rexford.