A Drunken Mother | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 19, 1883

A Drunken Mother.

At Newcastle, Pennsylvania, as in other places, meetings were held Jan. 9th, the day of prayer for temperance.

Among the sad stories told at the meetings was one of a drunken wife in that place, and an incident of the night before. The lady who related the story said that on Monday night at about 12 o'clock there came a knock at the door of her residence, and investigation found that the wife of a well-known citizen was standing there so drunk she came near falling down. She said that she was looking for her children; that she had put them out of the house a short time before. The lady's husband got up and went out to search for the little ones, and after some time found them asleep on the door of their father's place of business, their tiny little arms clasped about each other's necks, and with but little clothing to keep them warm. They were taken home and put to bed while the mother was sleeping off her drunken stupor in a chair in front of the fire. Doubtless this woman had learned to rely upon alcoholic tonics, and so became the victim of a debasing appetite.—Selected.