CROSSING THE LINE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1880

CROSSING THE LINE.

A boy who went with his father on a voyage to South America, was anxious to see the equatorial line, and said to an old sailor, "Jack, will you show me the line when we cross it?"

"O yes, my boy."

After a few days the boy asked whether they had crossed the line. The old tar said, "Yes, my lad."

"Why didn't you tell me, and show it to me?"

The sailor replied, "O my lad, we always cross the line in the dark."

Moderate drinker, you always cross the line between the moderate and immoderate in the dark. Mental and moral night settles down on you as you cross the line between moderate drinking and inebriety, blinding you to the awful facts of ruin and death only a little way farther on in the road you are traveling.—Christian Advocate.