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Alcohol and the Home
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suffering children, the agonized cry of the mother, only serve to
exasperate the rum seller....
The liquor dealer will not hesitate to collect the debts of the
drunkard from his suffering family, and will take the very necessaries
from the home to pay the drink bill of the deceased husband and
father. What is it to him if the children of the dead starve? He looks
upon them as debased and ignorant creatures, who have been abused,
kicked about, and degraded; and he has no care for their welfare.
But the God that rules in the heavens has not lost sight of the first
cause or the last effect of the inexpressible misery and debasement
that have come upon the drunkard and his family. The ledger of
heaven contains every item of the history.—
The Review and Herald,
May 15, 1894
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The Drinker Responsible for His Guilt
—Let not the man who
indulges in drink think that he will be able to cover his defilement by
casting the blame upon the liquor dealer; for he will have to answer
for his sin and for the degradation of his wife and children. “They
that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.”—
The Review and Herald,
May 8, 1894
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In the Shadow of Liquor
—Day by day, month by month, year
by year, the work goes on. Fathers and husbands and brothers, the
stay and hope and pride of the nation, are steadily passing into the
liquor dealer’s haunts, to be sent back wrecked and ruined.
More terrible still, the curse is striking the very heart of the
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home. More and more, women are forming the liquor habit. In many
a household, little children, even in the innocence and helplessness
of babyhood, are in daily peril through the neglect, the abuse, the
vileness of drunken mothers. Sons and daughters are growing up
under the shadow of this terrible evil. What outlook for their future
but that they will sink even lower than their parents?—
The Ministry
of Healing, 339
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