A Rumseller's Advice

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

A Rumseller's Advice.

A rumseller in Grafton, had a son, a bright promising boy, whom he regarded with pride and affection. For a long time the father kept his son away from the bar. But at length in the pressure of business, love and prudence gave way to avarice, and the son was made bar-tender. The father took his son behind the bar, and pointing to a long row of bottles, said, “Do you see those bottles?” “Yes,” said the son. “Well, there's poison in every one! There is poison in every one! Don't you ever drink a drop—not a drop!”

But the influence of the bar proved too strong for the father's counsel. Example is mightier than precept. The son drank, and went down, through descending sin and shame, till he died a miserable drunkard. Thus it is that the crime of the rumseller recoils upon his own family, and his iniquity is visited upon his own children.—The Morning.