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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · June 3, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 23

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CAUSES OF CRIME.

THE chaplain of the Auburn State-prison, Rev. William Searles, says: “There are in the United States forty-four prisons with an average of one thousand prisoners, making forty-four thousand criminals, with an average of ten relatives afflicted by each. This makes four hundred and forty thousand who suffer from this source. The long line of sorrow could be traced to one of three causes; viz., idleness, licentiousness, or intemperance,”