Poisoned to Death

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1875

Poisoned to Death.

YES, poisoned to death legally! We are horrified when we are told that in China 400,000 natives die every year, of opium poisoning; that in India 20,000 die annually of serpent poisoning. But what of civilized Christian America, where over 100,000 die each year of alcoholic poisoning? Five times as many die by the snake in the glass as die by the snake in the grass! They die in their darkness and ignorance. We kill off our people lawfully, complacently, and scientifically in the broad clear light of advancing day. Liberty with a vengeance! When will the people repent, shake off apathy, wake to their danger, and strike down the enemy? It lies in their power to do it. Heaven asks when?—D. T. Taylor in World's Crisis.