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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 23, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 24.

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Drink to Make Me Work

"I drink to make me work," said a young man. To which an old man replied: "That's right; thee drink and it will make thee work! Hearken to me a moment, and I'll tell thee something that may do thee good. I was once a prosperous farmer. I had a good loving wife, and two as fine lads as ever the sun shone on. We had a comfortable home, and drank ale to make us work. Those two lads I have laid in drunkard's graves. My wife died broken-hearted, and she now lies by her two sons. I am seventy-two years of age. Had it not been for drink, I might now have been an independent gentleman; but I used to drink to make me work, and mark, it makes me work now. At seventy-two years of age I am obliged to work for my daily bread. Drink! Drink! and it will make you work."—Ex.