Sunday, January 28, 2024

Blackford, County, IN Obituary Lesson: A Winter Walk Drunk [1896]

To day if ye will hear His voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor,
that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14

Q: What IF he had listened to God's Word and NOT imbibed on strong drink?
"Isaac Fisher, aged about seventy, was found dead in a ditch outside of the city limits this morning
He had been drinking considerably, and it is supposed, was on the way to his daughter's home In the country, when he fell into the ditch, and was frozen to death. 
Deceased has been a resident of this county for many years. [Date: 1896-01-29; Paper: Indiana State Journal]."