Whisky Good in Its Place

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1879

Whisky Good in Its Place.

The late Dr. Guthrie, of Scotland, was once maintaining the proposition that everything in the world had its uses, and was good in its place. A gentleman present, knowing that the good doctor was a firm teetotaler, asked him how he would apply that to whisky.

“Why,” said he, “there is nothing like whisky for preserving a man when he is dead, but on the other hand, it is one of the worst things in the world for preserving a live man. It kills the living and keeps the dead. The only trouble is that many of the living don’t understand this distinction and use whisky at the wrong time. They should wait till they are dead.”