Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-09-22

unto ''e1cess." cannot now answer here what
You might say Of Noah case. 2.
Q. Methuo also signifies "to be. drunken, in-
Acts, Q: Is. 1,Thes., 5:7, and in this sense it
occurs also in the!Septuagint.. Deut., 80: a.
Isa 49: 26. And I take it, the sense of me 10
Ito drink wine) to be settled by the qualification
Of the writer inthe using of it; and here st. Paul
has added, "wherein is excess" Eph., 5: l8, (see
SAM, %: 36,-37; 2. Sam, II: 13; Kings,
20: 16; Luke, 12: 49,
The next thing to be settled, is as answer to
this question: What is ezcess9
Ans.-We have q warrant-a divine warrant
to drink wine in some condition of body and mind,
and on some occasions, not to- ezeess.; The neces
sites of men, the prescribed occasions, and pre-.
scribed degree, is here On rule to measure an ser
cess" The experience and observations Of men
have found. that the daily and hsbituaf drinking
Of wine, &C., oversteps the necessities Of well,
healthy, and prosperous men, both in his body,
and his mind, This habit, therefore, is "ercess"
The drinking wine, &c., unto intoxication is ''ez-
cess" and the drinking Of wine, &c., on non-pre-
scribed oceasiousis is ezesss" Alltheseare ''drunk-
enness," as opposedto the sobriety Of Scripture.
See Thes., s: 6, g.; Peter, 5:S
Here, doubtless, JESSE, you will reply: "Al-
though do daily, or habitually drink my drains
Of whisky, &c., yet these are Of little quality,
much weakened too with water, and never there.
/ by become in the least intoxicated at all. am,
therefore, sober man." y : =
Ans.-Not so JESSE. The dilution of your
whiskey in your little drains, lessons not the al
cohol there present; and none are able to drink
whisky, &c., in dram proportions without thereby
becoming q little altered in his condition-stimu-
lated little more than are the necessities of q
healthy state of body and mind. This, therefore,
is drunkenness" or opposed to Scriptural sobri-
ETY.. :.
Again. Sobriety as opposed to DRUNKENNESS"
is expressed IN Greek by n h omen. Phes.,
g. 6. Here it is said, "Let MS watch and be SOBER"
This word is compounded of two words, viz: n e,
which signifies not, and Psi o, which signifies to
drink nepio, not to drink-sober. Sobriety,
| therefore, consists in not drinking wine, &c. A
sober man is Mo drinking man. But JESSE, you
confess that you do daily drink drains you there:
fore, in the Scriptural sense are not a.sob7 man.
Hsbitual total abstinence men are sober. men,
and none others. he, therefore, who is hsbitual
ly q Htotal abstinence" mon from wine, whisky,
&c., is the sober man of Scripture; and no who Is
habitually,, and daily drinker of these is the
"drunkard" Of the Scripture. JESSE, are you
guilty, or not guilty? .. o.. ~ ~" 81
JESSE; you do contend, that the Scriptures do
| recommend to men to drink both vino and strong
drink and You argue, therefore, to drink these is
moral
Ans.-The Scriptures do recommend to men the
drinking Of both wine and strong drink under
certain circumstances and restrictions In Prov,
81 6. 'Give strong drink to him thatis ready to
perish; and wine to those that be of heavy hearts,"
In .Tm., s: %, we read "Drink no longer water,
but little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine
off MFR ho- TO- pn>1i-
cense to the we'll, and healthy and prosperous in
life, to drink these habitually; nor on, any and
| all occasions; but this use of wine and strong
drink is restricted only to the sons Of aiction In
body or in mind, and in such measure only as their
| wants demand. Feet. ,,>s>-.,. l-s. -. II
| But, Sir, you insist upon the morality Of your
drinking whisky, &C., habitually atcommon meals,
upon the plea, that it promoted your appetite,
and the digestion Of your,food: which tends you
say, to- keep what health you have, and to restore
what Of it is lost.
Ans.-Iti ia well settled fact, that wine, whis-
Ky, &c. is no part of the instructive wants Of man,
or necessary to his sustenance in life; nor is Il
needed to promote appetite, nor digestion in a
healty state; nor, is good health preserved there
by, nor lost health restored, except in condi-
ton. Nor is this demanded habituaDy to be
drank at all, only by morbid craving for the &C.
|
other hand, the habitual drinking of whisky, &C.,
does ipjuro or destroy o fine state Of health, and
the craving felt for it by you is the fesult Of bad
habit in your indulgence therein, and is itself q
diseased action. The craving, or want Of whisky,
therefore, felt by you twice or thrice o day, de-
mauding supply for years and years in regular
succession, is ample proof it is not medicine to
you, and instead Of cure it is your poison 1t has
produced disease: - gs'.t
But, JESSE, you do say 'Our fathers drank
their daily drains, from early youth unto extreme
old age, and were never drunken, nor was their
good health impaired thereby. This their drink
ing unto them was useful, aud, therefore, moral.
Ans.-Notso. I have already shown, that the
Bible is the only rule for right action unto man /:
what sour fathers" did can never make this moral
unto US. And have already shown. that this
habit Of sour fathers" die violate the rule of
right and that their health was not thereby i'm
paired, is q problem which never has been resol-
Hed. One of two things think perpetuates habit
ual drinking in every man. l. Either he drinks
it because he loves the taste thereof, or 2. He
drinks it for the sake of the feelings it imparts to
him. If for the taste, he acquired that by habit
If for the feelings these tend to drunkenness, or is
drunkenness itself. So then, what "Our fathers"
did from early youth to extreme old age, say
the least unworthy deeds, and dangerous path for
us to travel in, and ought to be avoided.
| JESSE: You contend that there are examples Of
feasts recorded in the Scripture, which were cele
brated with drinking of wine, and strong drink;
and these you say are good examples unto US.
Not go, JESSE. True. there are feasts Of Kings
and others Of that sort therein recorded, but
of these were drunken feasts; others wherein wine
was poureaom as offering to the Lord /; and others
censurcd of the Prophets Of the Lord, whilst some
are moral. Of some of these will treat next
week. - -, o.. -.. ,-a' NOBODY.
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