Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-29
.AIIopathvR eplies to aPauI,
BAcoNsBURc, May %, 1867.

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FRIEND PAUL:-Iperceive you are an
extremist on the temperance question.
| am a radical teetotlar, and have been
for twenty-five years. so you may
perceive that "the God you ignorantly
worship, him deliver 1 unto you."-
Now l do not suppose you are ST. Paul,
Paul the Apostle, or even Saul of Tar
sus. But l am wiling to admit that
you are a good temperance man, but
somewhat mistaken. You say / am
following the 'sold beaten track, vainly
supposing that temperance will cure
intemperance." Yes Paul, the New
Testament is an old track, but a safe
and sure me-.
When Paul reasoned of temperance,
righteousness and Judgment, Felix
trembled. There was power in tenn
perance then, as there IS now. Felix
was probably a wine biber, run guzzler.
Be it as it may he trembled under
PauPs argument.
But yousay temperance willnot cure
intemperance. Why not?-If all the
incorporate men, would become tenn
perste, would not they all be cured ?
If the whole people ere temperate,
would not that be the end to intemper-
ance if they continued so?
Is not virtue the antidote for vice?
Is not holiness the antidote forsin, and
righteousness the cure for wiekedness?
"Let the wicked man forsake his
ways, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts" is the sadmonition of the
scriptures.
Paul-Art thou a teacher in Israel,
and dost not know these things?
If the wine biber would forsake his
bowl, and the rum tipler his cup. and
all the inhabitants of the land cease to
indulge in the use of all intoxicating
liquor as a beverage, would not the
great evil of intemperance be cured ?
But you fault me because L recommend
its use as a drug, a medicine. Well
now, either you or the great Apostle
Paul is wrong. He told Timothy to
take a little wine for his stomach sake
and his often inirmaties.D Now it
seems that Paul had faith in wine as a
remedial agent, and l think l am in
good company to think SO too. st.
Paul surely understood what he said
to and taught young Timothy. He
meant nothing more nor less than that
Timothy should use the wine as amedi-
cine. Perhaps it might be well for our
modern Paul to consult the writings of
Paul the Apostle, as well as Christ and
the Prophets.
/ take the ground that intoxicating
liquor may, and is used properly, as a
medicine. That it is never useful in a
state of health, but always injurious
That it is a poison no one will deny
All medicines are poison. Pure alco-
hol is like ali indicating drugs, poison.
All intoxicating liquors are more or
less poisonous, and therefore, belong
legitimately and properly to the masc-
ria medica, and like all other drugs,
should be kept, sold, and used only as
medicine. Alcohol is the result of
vinous fermentation and distilation.-
It was discovered by Alrazi, an Arabian
physician, and for long time was used
with great care as a medicine; like
calomel, opium, tart-emetic, euinine,
arsenic, s~trychnine, morphine, de-, as a
remedial agent belongs to the family of
drugs. It should never be used ina
state of health.
Alcohol, like all other drugs when
taken in a state of health, is a poison
and will produce disease and desth.-
It should be avoided in a state of health
as we would avoid calomel, %antimony,
aconitum or stramonium. Alchohol Is
a direct and positive stimulent, and as
such, is possessed of medicating power.
solomon said: Give strong drink TO
him that isready to PERISH" Do you
not see that the Apostle Paul, mot
county Paul. but the great
Apostle Paul, and Solomon, recon-
mended it as a medicine?
Now Paul, what think We of these
things? 1 hope to hear from you again.
ALL0PATH.