Smyrna times., 1854-08-23
Written for the Smyrna Times.
Bible Temperance mo. 7.
BY JOHANAN.

BY JoHANAN.
AS A further illustration and confirmation of
the use of the term, and the distinction here
made in the two classes of wine, will give a
quotation from certain writer in a paper call
ed the Enquirer. He says in speaking of the
word wine" Let us glance at its varied mean
ings, from the pure bio0d of the grape, fresh
and unfermented, pressed with the hand from
the ripe clustre, into the cup of Pharoah
by his chief butler, to the motley mix
ture of rye whiskey, cream-tartar, nica-rau-
qua, sugar of lead and impure water,
manufa ctured in New York and Boston, for
sale pure as imported" and to ali other intoxi-
eating mixtures now in use, and called wine
! Pharoah and others, drank liquor winch We
know could not have caused the least degree of
| intox.catlon, and that too, was called wine
Blrley water, whether an innocent household
decoction, or nauseous and mlschlcvous fer
mcntatiou, has been extensively called VINE
The juice Of the palm tree, whether termenied
! or untermented, has been named wIne. And so
| has the Juice of the BIRCH The Malay has but
one name for the innocent milk of the cocUanut
the juice of the palm, and the powerfully in
toxicating distillation from rice. That name
is SYNONYMOUS with wine, for it is all the word
he has for the juice of the grape, fermented and
unfermented, and for the distilled liquors fur
nished him by Europeans and Americans. The
Mohammedan understands his prophets prohi-
bition of wine to debar him from London porter
and Holland gun, equally with the juice Of the
grape. Solomon tells us OF the wine ot the
pomegranate. The juice of various other
fruits and melons have been called wine. In
this country the juice Of the currant has been
d called nc, and is extensively used as such in
: the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Every
! thrifty English housewife knows that the juice
e ofthe gooscberry. The raspberry, a"d the alder
berry IS wine; and you have only TO pass into
5 some parts Of Europe, 10 hear the JUICE Of tht
G peach, the pear, or the apple, called by the
u same name" WHAT, then, is wine! And
It what 10 proved or d!sproyed By showing that th
e Saviour used wine, and that the Scripture
y mention it as blessing, unless We know, no
n merely the name bu: the thing sgniied by it
n We have to do with things in this discuss on
lie | would not condemn an innocent beverage be
G. cause it is called wine. | would not use
h. poisonous one because it is called by the sam
IN name. Doubtless the Scriptures do not contra
le dict themselves consequently they do not ca
~ wine "a mocker,' and then call wine "a bless
on ing nor does God thus deceive us. When tn
- Scriptures say that God repents, and that b
he does not repent; that he tempteth no man, an
ng that he tempted Abraham, they do not contr
he dict themselves, because the same words Ia ii
las different paragraphs mean entirely diiferel
zee things This necessarily results from the in
perfection of human language. Why may v
on non infer that when the Scriptures alternate
lat condemn and approve wine, they mean difiere
to things" +" Professor Stewart, late of ArdovC
IN has clearly shown that the Bible does explicit
lin and unequivocally prohibit certain wines, Al
er, yet that the same Bible does permit and san
i'm, ton the use of certain Wines" Not al sor
ce, say, it prohibits only the excessive use; !"
il prohibits the use itself as beverage.
ure I" Look not upon the wine," &c. And that t
sri- Bible prohibits certain wines, and perm
the others, it requires but little Biblical Learnt
lit for any one to ascertain. .'The most unlettel
aim student of the Bible. by u due degree of att'
the ton, reflection and common sense, may beco
ned satisfied Cor HIMSELF "In spreading out
pes. the texts of the Bible in which wine is eit
It 6guratlvely alluded to or literally mention
the YOU will see at glance that they divide the
ring selves into TIVE great diyisions-the prohibit
his and ,inprohibiting those in which wine is
the proved, and those in which il is condernne
ring those that speak Of wine as "a mock
sno- and those that promise it as blessing
his you read Of the new wine Of Christ's spirit
3D. xingdom, and there of the wine Of aston
him ment. and Of the ierceness Of the wrath of
NAM Almighty God--the one blessing, the o.
Atur'' classified with the most vile denominations,
7; 80 as whoredom itself"--Hosea a, IL.
very J. Let Us now turn from the lists of terf
nties, the foregoing list Of liquors. that always