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their places of business, upon the payment of a considerably higher
license than had formerly been paid into the city treasury.
In the calamity that befell San Francisco, the Lord designed to
wipe out the liquor saloons that have been the cause of so much
evil, so much misery and crime; and yet the guardians of the public
welfare have proved unfaithful to their trust, by legalizing the sale of
liquor.... They know that in doing this, they are virtually licensing
the commission of crime; and yet their knowledge of this sure result
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deters them not.... The people of San Francisco must answer at the
judgment bar of God for the reopening of the liquor saloons in that
city.—
The Review and Herald, October 25, 1906
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Significance of Present-Day Conditions
—Notwithstanding
the many evidences of the increase of crime and lawlessness, men
seldom stop to think seriously of the meaning of these things. Almost
without exception, men boast of the enlightenment and progress of
the present age.
Upon those to whom God has given great light, rests the solemn
responsibility of calling the attention of others to the significance
of the increase of drunkenness and crime. They should also bring
before the minds of others the Scriptures that plainly portray the
conditions which will exist just prior to the second coming of Christ.
Faithfully should they uplift the divine standard, and raise their
voices in protest against the sanctioning of the liquor traffic by legal
enactment.—
Drunkenness and Crime, 3
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