Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-12-12
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! thought prolonged to a very awkward
: length. She therefore TO keep up the
4 conversation asked are you fond of
novels. Mr.. DicksonT ? Il don't know,
never eat any, he replied.
Adallne came very near laughing at
Georges answer, but as if not noticing
his mistake, she asked have you req
il Alamance? ? No, not that remeY
seldom read anything but PM .I.l-
tive Baptist, the Bible snbner i'n
hook. Oh! then youskM. IorJ 10.
IS len Thousand = - = :
my ifes no. Z never fetsd
ittor the half Of II ! excla
] lime lime io 'feaa'imy-ptttitea!k titeakss a
you are very conversant with thasS=-ssp puSI
ed book said Adaline, glad 10 have,
struck upon some subject that would
perhaps be interesting 10 him.
Yes said George, who now found
himself perfectly at home, on the sub
ject of dIvinity-and he squared himself
for the purpose of giving Miss Adaline
E specimen of his wonderful attainments.
have read in that blessed book, of our
first father and our first mother, that was
placed in Paradise; this Paradise was
| what they called garden, but we'G call
!, it orchard. There was great many
/, fruit trees in it; the best apples that ever
grow d in the world growed there, great
y big horse-apples as big as your two fists
/ and yaller as gold; then there was
y great many sorts of peaches, more than
= can tell you of, but the best of 'em all
nr was the big yaller minns peach. don't
know whether Adam made much cider
= l0r Ill, 81 l.,k
or I'll be bound he had plenty of it and
Id brandy too. Well, off at the side of the
or orchard was piece Of cleared ground,
70 where Adam had his 'taters and cotton
planted-now the Lord told Adam and
Eve, says he 10 them, here is heap of
fruit, there isn't man in the world got
= better orchard than this is. I'll tell
you what you may do: you may eat as
much fruit as you please, so you don't
: take none off of that tree that stands in
the middle of the orchard. You must not
;. eat of that, for if you do, it will kill you !;
Y, its rank pizen, says he. Now.th dew
g il was cunning old rogue, 50 he chan
IL ged himself into sarpeHt, and twisted
As. himself Pl round q Peagh Tree, and when
to ed her what purity big red apples they
I'm was, and asked her TO eat some. Eve
in was the weaker vessel so all other VIM
M min is, SO she took some of the fruit and
for eat it. Now | ask, did Eve act like a
ity prudent woman, did she seem like she
Il had much sense? No, she didn't. II
ey it had a been me. I'll tell you how I'd a
ith done I'd jumped on my horse and gal
its loped TO the nearest store, and got one oi
Collns's best axes and chopped the
a sarpent's head off.
ck- At his interesting part of the preach
25 er's discourse, Adalne, whose gravity
| had been put TO the severeSt test from
i the first, could bear up no longer; she
as therefore had a very violent fit of cough
he ing which compelled her to keep her
10 handkerchief to hide her convulsions
by and when she did remove it, her face wa:
,dy rosy indeed.
an Dinner was now announced, to which
not our friend did ample justice he was toe
tn much Of a philosopher to allow affair.
the of the heart to interfere with the affair.
rch OF the stomach. After dinner was over
m; our two friends who had been fishing il
ce, the morning, having occasion to go TO Mr.
ma Walton's Store, about half mile off, po
litely invited George to go with them, Il
pod which he readily assented. So thel
bly, started for the store, and directly afte
. of their arrival at that place the pteache
He bought quart of rot-gut whiskey I,
en- treat his companions on but to his in
ker finite astonishment :hey both refused t
his drink, merely because they were Son
rior Of Temperance. So you are both Son
i, at of Temperance, is We? says the preach
, at er; now let's have argument on tn
en- subject. Have ye got any orthorty fruT
the the Bible for being Sous ov Temperance
him which interrogation he thought of itseI
ing so potent as to silence efectually an
sion argument that might be brought forth b
l at any member of the Order.
n, David Curtis answered, We have a
ar bundant scripture for it; there is pa.
Mr.. sage something like this, wine is a mocke
Ada strong drink is raging, and whose is d,
the ceived thereby is not wise
C.'S Yes says the preacher, that is win
ONE now show me where the bible forbids
ap- man drinking brandy, whlskey, rum
nced gin, and I'll give up.
ioin No drunkard hath eternal life,' say
near David, in reply. Well but that is n
ot 10 pinting out where it says whiskey is n
that to be used. I know as well as you, tn
! left wine is forbidden, and that's the reasc
n re- why never drink it, but show me whe
r, for whiskey is forbidden
he Then you seem not to be aware tn
ed alcoholic liquors were not discovered u
til about the seventh century, nor broug
atom. into general use until about the IL
very century. At the time the Bible W
written, wine was the intoxicating be
gorge erage; alcoholic liquors were not know
ortly, and for this reason the sacred write
which speak of wine and not OF distilled sp
spon- its, said David. And where do you |