HATES DRUNKARDS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 5, 1882

HATES DRUNKARDS.

The drunkard-maker always hates his oldest and most liberal customers, and is proud of cursing them and kicking them out. How we should be surprised to hear a shoemaker slam the door against an old customer and say, "you villainous old scamp, I've made boots and shoes for you and your family for twenty years, and you have paid me for them, and here you are again after more shoes; get out, and don't let me ever see your face again." How funny it would look to see a tailor basting an old schoolmate into the gutter because after getting his clothes there for fifteen years, he wants to buy an overcoat. Or a minister assaulting an old standby because he has been twenty-five years a communicant and elder in his church; and therefore must be unfit company for anybody. But that is the way the League of Freedom and the Grocers Protective Union treat their old patrons. By the way, it is time the old drunkards were beginning to get ashamed of the drunkard makers, who are ashamed to call their own business by its own name.—Rescue.