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RUINED BY HIS FATHER

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 43.

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RUINED BY HIS FATHER

William E. Dodge, the New York merchant and philanthropist, not long ago related the following:—
A prominent New York merchant, originally an Englishman, never sat down to table without his wine and brandy, and his three sons, in consequence, all grew up drunkards. One became so abandoned that his father cast him out of the house. At last some temperance people brought about his reformation, and he went to see his father on New Year's day. The old gentleman said:—
"My son, I'm delighted to see you again. I'm glad you've reformed."
Thoughtlessly he said, "Let's drink to your better life one glass of sherry."
The young man hesitated a moment, and then thought he would just drink one glass. The old appetite revived, and that night his father found him dead drunk in his stable.