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The Cost of Drink

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 40.

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The Cost of Drink

“The National Bureau of Statistics says all the church property in the United States is worth $354,000,000, while every year $700,000,000 are spent for drinks. There is nothing valuable in this paragraph, save that it shows that men drink just twice as much as they pray. And there is not anything particularly valuable in that, either.”
Only not nearly half the sad truth is told. Drink costs $700,000,000 yearly, while over two centuries have been spent in accumulating $350,000,000 of church property.