“As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.... They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage.” Matt. 24:37, 38.
3. How has the consumption of liquor increased in gallons in the United States since 1840:—
| Spirits | Wines | Liquors | Total | Per Capita | |
| 1840 | 43,060,884 | 4,873,096 | 23,310,843 | 71,244,823 | 4.17 |
| 1850 | 51,833,473 | 6,316,393 | 36,563,009 | 94,712,875 | 4.08 |
| 1860 | 89,968,651 | 10,933,981 | 101,346,669 | 202,249,301 | 6.43 |
| 1870 | 79,895,708 | 12,225,067 | 204,756,156 | 296,876,931 | 7.70 |
| 1880 | 63,526,694 | 28,098,179 | 414,220,165 | 505,845,038 | 10.08 |
| 1890 | 87,829,623 | 28,945,993 | 855,929,559 | 972,705,175 | 15.53 |
| 1900 | 97,356,864 | 29,988,467 | 1,222,387,104 | 1,349,732,435 | 17.76 |
| 1910 | 133,538,864 | 60,548,078 | 1,851,340,256 | 2,045,427,018 | 21.86 |
| 1911 | 138,585,989 | 62,859,232 | 1,966,911,744 | 2,169,356,695 | 22.79 |
The total consumption of alcoholic liquors in the United States for forty-two years (1870-1911) was 43,611,000,564 gallons.
The drink bill of the United States for 1911 was estimated at $1,833,653,425, or nearly twice the national debt.
The number of liquor dealers in the United States in 1910 was 255,765, or over a quarter of a million.
The capital invested in the manufacture of liquor in the United States in 1850 was less than $10,000,000. In 1910, sixty years later, it had increased to over $770,000,000, or more than 7,700 per cent.
The total internal revenue received by the United States for liquor for forty-nine years, or from 1863 to 1911, was $5,245,916,047.01.
The use of whisky, beer, cigars, and cigarettes in the United States increased enormously in 1912. During the three months of July, August, and September of this year alone, 33,150,000 gallons of whisky were used, an increase of 450,000 gallons over the corresponding period of the previous year; 19,800,000 barrels of beer were drunk, an increase of 320,000 barrels over the same months of 1911; 1,950,000,000 cigars were smoked, a record consumption; and more than 3,800,000,000 cigarettes were consumed, an increase of 1,000,000,000 over the same period of the previous year.
4. What can be said of intemperance in Great Britain?