Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-02-26

L TleluS VI JiOh4oitapA iNN'N
various passages of Scripture to prov
the iniquity and wrong in drinkin
wine, and the liquor advocates quot
from the same Bible to prove that
was frequently recommended b.
patriarchs and apostles to make gla'
the heart, and said to be good 70
the stomachs sake. We take tn
ground that the Bible IS true, an'
having been written by men VIII
: were inspired, that it Is directly TIT
word of God, and hence must o
necessity not only be true, but !
) consistent, every chapter one witt
the other, when properly understood
by its readers. This logical concIu
sion, We trust our opponents will no
deny. Now if the Bible Is true, anc
consistent, one passage with another
how shall we harmoniEe the apparent
ly contradictory passages on the sub
iect of wine drinking. Thus IL
| proverbs Xxi, wine is mockel
| &c, Proverbs XXllI:2l:32, J strong
drink is raging. Look not upon the
,ciae ,chm It is in he cup DC. Again
we read Of the wine that is good,
"maketh glad the heart "a bless
ing" &c. 1t is impossible that
Christ should manufacture and re.
commend VINE 10 be good for the
stomachs sake one day, and forbid It's
use the next day. The apparent
contradi ton is very easily under
stood, when we take the original
Hebrew words. for there it is found
that two leading designations tol
wine was used, and in a similar way
we apply the different names to-day.
We speak OF the old rye and corn,
frequently meaning Intoxicating
drinks manufactured from the grain
then, we rs temperance people con.
dcmn lis use as the Scripture con
demns the use of wine when II civ
eth color in the cup &c, but when
we speak of Rye and corn in its origi'
nal aud unfermented condition then
we recommend it as good for the
stomachs sake. 1t was Just so 2OOO
or 5000 years ago. In the Hebrew
in every instance where wine vas
forbidden, it was called yoyiH, and
where it was recommended it was
called tiro&t. ldyin always meaning
the fermented, or alcoholic beverage,
and tirosh, being the Hebrew word,
meaning cluster of grapes or grape
Juice unfermented and harmless.
Either of these words can as proper
! Iy be translated to read grape as
wine, rs il is equally proper for us TO
say rye when we mean whiskey, or
corn when we mean rifle whiskey, or
tangle-leg whiskey.
In the ancient Hebrew language
the words ydyin tirosh and several
Others were occasionally used To des-
ignate grapes and the juice Of grapes,
either fermented or uniermented,
precisely as we now use the various
designations, such as rye, Bourbon,
copper distilled, aGd n great many
other nouns, meaning whiskey. But
the ANCIENT Hebrew language was
not as pcrvestiye and uncertain, even
as we lind the English language OF
the present day.
III summing up the scriptural ar
guments in favor of prohibition, we
must do one of two things, viz: We
must prove the Bible TO be a confused
mass Of contradictions and inconsis-
teucies-and hence not reliable as a
guide-or we must find, as above
stated, that the same wine Is lot
praised by one passage and condemn
ed by the next but that when praised
| il refers to the wine in the grape, or
! the uniermented juice Of the grape,
and when condemned, it refers to the
wine after fermentation has commen-
ced, "when it giveth its color in the
cup, and maketh drunken . also when
''it biteth like Il serpent and stlngeth
like an adder
With this plain and sensible CON
! clusion OF the scriptural argument,
we will next proceed briefly with a
few physiological points. The physi-
illogical arguments will necessarily
have 10 be sub divided into, lsi, the
effect Of alcoholic liquors in quanti-
ties sufficient to produce intoxication :;
and 2nd, the effect of abstaining from
them altogether. We, as prohibi
tionists, do by mortality statistics,
kept by the arctic voyagers on the
one hand, ard travellers in the tropi
cal regions on the other, prove that
! in every climate health can be main
tanned and life prolonged better by
the total abstinence from the use OF
all fermented or alcoh blic drinks
I ! he inexperienced traveller may dis
pute this, but then we have an un-
answerable argument to present which
MANY of our solid and immovable
lneighbors will recognize, viz: That
nearly every case OF insanity and idi-
ocv. almost every form Of organic di-
sease, many chronic and not few
acute diseases, are frequent results Of
| long and hard drinking; that the
children of drunken parents are often
idiotic. and have transmitted to them
various diseases which are produced
Ibv excessive drinking, and which.
therefore, tend to the deterioration Of
the race; ; and that drunkards are al
,oays the frsi victims Of epidemIcs.-
The drunkard and the intelligent
whiskey dealer will admit that alco-
hol taken in narcotic quantities will
produce devitilizing influence upon
the brain and nervous system, and an
habitual excessive use Of these drinks