1930 The Saloon in the Home

A STRUGGLE AT THE BEDSIDE A w A Y high up in a garret-room, you find a young man sinking under a· slow decline, and shivering beneath a . thin, threadbare coverlet, in the cold that blows keen through the patched ,and broken window. You try to raise his thoughts and leave to send warm coverings for his emaciated form. Before you return that wretched apartment has seen a terrible struggle. Turning a deaf ear to his pitiful cries, un– moved by the tears on his hectic cheek, his father and mother have pulled the blankets from his body and sold them for drink. I speak what I know." From sermon by Dr. Guthrie.