Terrible Fruit | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1879

Terrible Fruit.

At a temperance meeting in Philadelphia Judge Price said:—

"Science has revealed, by the aid of the microscope, the presence of living and often disgusting objects in a drop of water. The stomach revolts at the spectacle, under the glass, of the creatures which tenant every refreshing draught, however invisible to the naked eye. Let me tell you what once came out, under the processes of justice in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in this city, from a single gallon of whisky which to most eyes seemed innocent and harmless enough. There came out of it two murderers, two widows, eight orphans, two cells in the States Prison, filled with wretched convicts for a term of years. The whisky, moreover, was used in connection with the administration of one of the ordinances of religion—the sacrament of baptism. It was drunk at the christening of a child, and the men who drank it fought, and two lost their lives, and the further results were what I have said."