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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, May 12, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 19

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By R. F. Cottrell

I HAVE observed the course of those who dabbled occasionally with articles of food or drink which, to say the least, were of doubtful propriety in their own minds. The more they indulged in these things, the less were their convictions of their evil tendency, till they became slaves to a habit which once might have been easily overcome by a strict adherence to principle. The moral sense seems to have been blunted by repeated indulgence, till that which they once would have admitted to be wrong, they will now advocate as right. All should know that a single departure from principle weakens the sense of right and the abhorrence of wrong. Such facts as these suggest the use of a pledge which puts occasional indulgences out of the question, strengthens us to act upon principle every time, and secures us from the wide departures which we often see. Sign the pledge. R. F. COTTRELL.