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A Lesson From O'Leary

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 39.

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A Lesson From O'Leary.

The Philadelphia Sunday School Times draws a temperance lesson from O'Leary's failure: "Here is a Mr. O'Leary, the champion footman of the universe, striving against new competitors for the belt of honor he has won so proudly. While in training and wanting strength he adopts the liberal view of alcohol, and takes whisky. Of course, he is at disadvantage in a contest with total abstainers—for the time being. When he has failed ignominiously, all his old backers denounce him because he would not abjure liquors long enough to win the prize he would strive for. If you would have strength and keep it, let liquor alone."