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continue until night, until vine inhame them ;
"Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine.
! "Woe to ths crown OF pride, to the drunkards
OF Ephralm, where glorious beauty is fading
Of them that arc overcome With wine" .'Their
wine ia the poison ...of dragons" "And in this
mountain the Lord shall make 3 feast Of fat
! things; feast OF wine on the lees; OF wine On
the lees well refined" "a rineyazd Of red
wine; the Lord will keep It," AGO thy way,
eat thy bread with joy, and drinz thy wine with
merry heart, on God now accepeth thy works. y
] He causcth the grass to grow for cattle. and
vine that mAketh glad the heart" "1srael
shall dwell i'll safety alone; the tountalns Of
jacob shall be upon land Of corn and Hino, -
! ETC., ETC.
Bearing in mind that tho Bible is the Word Of
| God, can any one contand that the above diverse
| and contradictory extracts are prsoicated upon
in the same state be good and bad; = symbol Of
wrath and b symbol Of mercy; thing to be
sought after and thing to be avoided? And
yet there is vine spoken Of in the Bible with
express appreciation, as an emblem Of temporal
and eternal blessings; and q wine spoken Of
With express disapprobation and terrible denun-
citation, as an emblem Of temporal and eternal
judgment Are these tho same, or Is the Bible
inconsistent with itself?
a fow words upon the wine at the wedding at
Cana. WILL, tor text, again quote from the
alliance:
But the plain narrative shows that the company had
been drinking wine for some time perhaps days and
drunk Jesas by miraclc furnished them with an
article which pronounced by the most competent
authority. to bo better than any they lad Jet
drank. Had 1t been must the juice fresh from
The press, It would have lacked that avor which ago
is known to impart to this beverage favor priced the
world over whero wine is used Is beverage,
Reduced to plain English, it is simply this:
Christ came to the wedding ut Cana and found
an assemblage engaged in . drunxen debauch.
They had run out Of whisky,-or alcoholic wine,
the Intoxicating principle Of which is tho game,
-and to profong this drunken debauch, which
or three days, he changed water into an intoxi-
eating beverage for thus purpose. This may ac-
cord with Prof. Swings idea Of tho mission Of
Christ on earth but is it possible that such an
vinced that Christ manufactured intoxicating
liquor to prolong drunken debuuch, 1 should
withdraw my opposition to the distilers aud
brewers Of the present for are they not en-
gagged in th. same kind Of business The Savior
Of ths m Ts.d gogasfd in oo making h.t Thssy sy
phemy! And that assorted, too,- in
the face Of the wel-estaLlisbed historical fact |
that throughout all the East boiled, unfer- ]
mentod, Notwithstanding wine Was in general |
uso, as well as that which contained alcohol,
and WAS regarded By a1l except drunkards as the |
best!
Once moro; allow me few historical words |
on wine as temperance-provoking beverage. |
tNny the cider, Wh3 wrote IN Now Testament /
times, in his remarkable work on Natural His
tory. gives description OF grape-cuiture, and |
Of Ill the then known varieties aad OF the wines |
made from them. He very naturally concludes |
With chapter on ''Drunaenness." From this !
make few extracts:
any will takn the trouble duly to consider tho
matter he will find that upon subject Is the indus
ry OF man kept constantly the alert than that
If the making Of wine,-as II Nature had not given
ls water beverage, the In fact Of which all
aufmals mnke use- How vast our 1abors, and 70
oouudless the cost which thus lavish on = liquid
which deprives man Of hts reason, and driver him to
frenzy and the commission Of thousand crimes.
The drunkard, too, behofds the rising sum- by
xh;ch his life OF drinking is made all the shorler.
From wine too comes that rallid hue those dropping
yeds those sore eyes, those tse1nnous hands, unable
o hold with steadiness the overhowtng vessel, and
ondgn punishment In the shape Of sleep agtated by
Eares uring the restless night.
So great, however, its attractions thnt great
'art Of mankind Of opinion that there s nothing
se in life worth living for. And what is more, they
'aTe invented ways to promote drinking, and there
numerous Inventions to create artificial thirat
md theu too, what vessels employed FOR holding
vine: carved all over with adulteros nrigues ii,
fact drunkenness itself not capable OF teaching
Is lessons Of lustfnness,
And so on to the end of the chapter.
J. O. r.