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       In His Care,
       Pastor Fred Vogel 

Blessings from God’s Word
by Pastor Vogel
June 29, 2009

The first “First Lade” to go counter to the social custom of serving champagne and other wines at formal White House functions was the wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, who, in fact, refused to serve any kind of alcoholic beverages.

“I have young sons,” she said, “who have never tasted liquor. They shall not receive, from my hand, or with the sanction that its use in my family would give, their taste for what might prove to be their ruin. What I wish for my own sons, I must do for the sons of other mothers.”

One day, President Abraham Lincoln was riding in a coach with a colonel from Kentucky. The colonel took a bottle of whiskey out of his pocket. He offered Mr. Lincoln a drink. Mr. Lincoln said, “No, thank you, Colonel. I never drink whiskey.” In a little while, the colonel took some cigars out of his pocket and offered one to Mt. Lincoln. Again Mr. Lincoln said, “No, thank you, Colonel.” Then Mr. Lincoln said, “I want to tell you a story.”

“One day when I was about nine years old, my mother called me to her bed. She was very sick. She said, ‘Abe, the doctor tells me that I am not going to get well. I want you to promise me before I go that you will never use whiskey or tobacco as long as you live.’ I promised my mother that I never would, and up to this hour, I have kept this promise. Would you advise me to break that promise?”

The colonel put his hand on Mt. Lincoln’s shoulder and said, “Mt. Lincoln, I would not have you break that promise for the world! It is one of the best promises you ever made. I would give a thousand dollars today if I had made my mother a promise like you have done. I would be a much better man than I am.”