Ruin Wrought by Drink
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Amos 2:11-12
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel?…


: — We have no means for focalising the ruin wrought by England s greatest trade. The Press cannot mirror the tithe of it, nor the gossip relate its thousandth part. The trade is everywhere, and everywhere its work is one — unceasing slaughter. Could we but see in one fearful perspective the colossal host of men and women and sweet children struck to death by the traffic in drink, a new agony of compassion would break from the Church's heart, and the days of the trade that can only flourish as men decay would be numbered.

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Parallel Verses
KJV: And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

WEB: I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children of Israel?" says Yahweh.




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