, 1874-04-24

| turbid and has q very saccharine taste. 1t il
very laxative, and, when drunk too freely or By
persons disposed to diarrhea, Is apt to occasion
this disorder" There is not one person in a
! hundred who can drink unfermente3 wine, ae
| the Bible patriarchs are Represented to have
drunk it. without being sick after the operation.
| as the Rev. Edwards would pnt it, it is in the
innate depravity Of the grape to fcrment. and
! this fact the Savior had in view when he said
"No man putteth new wine into old skins. y
New leather bottles we're required to resist the
total depravity Of the grape. II wine does not
fe1nont out OF the stomach, it will ferment in
it, with what results the Rev, Edwards or any
one else can ASCERTAIN by trying few glasses
Of the juice, doctor 1t in any way they like
There is no process, and thero never will be any
process, by which unlermented vine can be
made nutritious or wholesome. The Rev. Ed
wards favorite beverage il triturated currant-
jelly mixed With water. Now let him try COB
let OF curTant~juice just expressed; glass Of
wort from the brewing tub; 3 few glasses Of
sweet cider; goblet or two Of grape-juice. He
will find them sweet and delicious in the mouth,
but We will wager considerable that he would
prefer to take threo-days' headache after fer
mented wine-drinking than the stonlach-ache
and the pangs in the adjacent regions he will
have after one bout at the liquid he calls unfer-
mented wine. Ia this the stuff with which Mel
chisedeck feasted Abraham? Is this the stuff
which Paul advised Timothy to put into his
stomach, when poor Timothy's stomach was
already out OF order? Is it likely that Paul
vas such quack as to sdyise Timothy,
who was suffering from Indigestion, to take
8 medicine which would bring On an
inevitable attack Of colic and diarrhea in addi-
tiou to his other trouble? Dr.. J. ". Draper,
the eminent chemist, says: ''The juice OF the
grape when first expressed is not an Intoxicating
liquor it contains no alcohol. It may be with
out much error regarded as compound Of sugar
and water and fer1nent." What the effect Of
this stuff is nowadays any Of the Rev. Edwards
contemporaries can tell him. The boy who has
made stealthy raid upon 3 c1der-mill, or who
has chewed too much Of the tempting sugar
eano, the servant girl who has been tempted to
overload herself With the delicious juice OF the
cur1ant OF the grape during the season whan the
thrifty housewife is manufacturing homemade
wine, aud harvesters who have indulged IN
too much molaases and water, which Ii only an
other form Of the unfermented juice, can elo-
quently testify as to the effect.
Let us still further apply the Rev. Edwards
theory to the Scrptural illusions to drinking.
Are We to believe that the Lord Was called by his
enemies wine-bibber-for drinking sugar and
water? Are We to believe that, at the marriage
festival in Cana Of Gahlee, after the guests had
already become very conyivial, the Lord trans
formed water into molasses and water, and that
the Governor Was 60 far gone he thought it WAS
the good vino reserved till the last ? When the
Bible says: "Give strong drink to the unfor-
tunate and wine to those that are Of heavy
heart +; let such one drink, that he may
forget his poverty and remainder his misery
no more" does the Bible refer to molasses and
water7 Does this compound tend to make q
man forget misery? When again the Bible
says: "Thou ahalt lay out that money for
whatsoever thy soul longeth for, for wine, or for
strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desires,
and thou ahalt rejoice. ETC., does the Bible re-
fer to molasses and watsr7 Are NE to under
stand that in Noa,s celebrated spree in his vine
yard, Abrahsm's drinking. when Isaac was
weaned, and Isaac's wine-party given in honor
Of Abimelech, sugar and water we're the drinks
in demand7 Did Jacob give his father mo-
1asses and water to drink, and did
Joseph, when he drank largely with
his brethren, get merry on molasses
and water? Arc We TO believe, as ne must, il
We accept the Rev. Edwards theory, that Noses
and Aaron, and Nadnb, and Abihu, and seventy
OF the elders Of Israel, on certain occasion did
cat and drink rnolasses aud water? Are we to
charge the Scr1ptural readings aud learn from
the inspired Psa1noist that 's molasses and water
gladdens mans heart, ;" aud listen to solomon's
advice, "D1ink, So friends, drink Abundantly Of
molaases and water,'' and mourn with
Isaiah that the rnolasees and water
mourneth, the vine languiBhes, there
is no more drinking Of sugar and water amidst
singing"? II this be so,-if sugar and water had
such disastrous effects upon Noah, Abraham,
Moses, Aaron, Isaac, Joseph, Isaiah, Solomon,
David, and Jacob as to intoxicate them quite
otten,-then is there danger that the Rev. Ed
wards some day may find himself 80 hilaziously
excited over his curzant-jelly and water that he
will not know the difference between shechar:
yayin, or tirosh II these be tho effects Of
molasses and water, look not upon the cu1rsnt-
jelly when it is red.
THE VETO MESSAGE.
Tho Presidents message returning the Senate
Currency bill without his approval has theme1it
OF being short and pointed. To understand the
veto, it is we'll to understand what the bill pro-
vided. It declared that the maximum amount
OF United States notes should be four hundred