The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-27
DRUNKENNESS AND THE BIBLE.

A REPLY To INGERsoLL LOCKWOOD scRIPruRAL
COMMUNICATION OF INTE,aPERANcE-soIID
REASONS FOR TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
TO THE EprroR HERALD
With feelings OF intense read the letter
Mr. Lockwood published in the HERALD of January
Is man is free to drink and become a drunkard.
but to claim the authority of the Scriptures for such
an act is. to say the least. very INDIGENOUS attd
bordering blasphemy. God never sanctioned
drunkenness. no than He did murder or steal
ing and yet ii you use the scriptures
disconnected you can prove every crime
as being Scriptural. The Shareholders of the South
auoted the Bible TO prove slavery to be divine
institution The Mormons claim polygamy to be
Scriptural by quoting the Bible. The crowned aes-
pots of Europe quote the Scriptures to their
divine right. The thief may prove stealing to be
scriptural because God commanded the children of
israel To steal all they could from the Egyptians pre-
vious 10 their flight. But while Mr.. Lockwood
1uotes the scriptures TO help the rumssllers and
the drunkard / can also call to aid the
Holy Book against and drunkenness. In fact
the voice of the Lord loud and frequent against
intemperance that if was to quote every Scriptural
condemnation of drunkenness it would NIL every
column of the HERALD. Listen to what the wise man
of Israel said. "who hath woe? Who hath sorrow
Who hath contentious Who hath babbling Who
eyes They that tarry long at the wine.
They that seek mixed wine. Look not thou
upon the wine when it is red. when 1t
giyeth its color in the cup, when 1t moveth itself
Alright At the last it biteth like serpent and sting
eth like adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange
women and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea thou shalt be he that neth down in the midst
of the sea or he that lieth upon the top of the
mast "-(Proverbs xiii. 30 80 81, 32.) The above
picture was taken nearly three thousand years ago.
and vet what perfect picture of the drunkard in the
year of salvation 1879!
Drunkenness is horror in waking moments
as well as in the hours Of slumber. Temperance, on
the other hand gives us peace SOUL mind and body
The greatest Of all and OF every nation prove
this sydney smith in the prime Of his days be-
with him, he thus writes to her:-"Many thanks,
my DEAR tor your kind anxiety respecting my health
not only never was better, but never half so well
in my life: indeed. find have been i'll all my
life without knowing it. Let me state some
fermented liquors First, sweet Sleep; hav-
ing never known what sweet sleep was l
needless terrors no black visions Of life, but pleas
ing hope and pleasant recolectons Second, can
take longer walks and undergo greater exercise with
better without wine and spectaces than when used
both. Only one evil ensues from it. | am in such
extravagant spirits that must lose blood or look
out for some who will bore or depress me. Pray
leave OFF fcrmented liquors. The stomach is quite at
the noble hero Hector, OF ancient fame offered
cup Of wine he declined to drink 1t, saying
Far hence be Bacchus' gift
And dulis the noble mind
UNCLE DANIEL CHARTERS REASONS.
Here is another witness in favor of temperance.
Mr. Daniel Charter. of Springfield, Mass, whom per-
sonally know, was u confirmed drunkard some forty
wears back. At the celebration of his thirty-third
Anniversary of his conversion to the of tenn
perance made the following declaration Of reasons
for abstinence
all spirit which is calculated to derange the HUI
. Because none of these drinks, habitual bever
age are useful but ALWAYS injurious to in
health and msny y Them '0' ola ana
Because ntemperance obsructs the progress OF cvii
laion education the religion of Jesus and every useful
abstinence is sure and safe and drink ing mod
etey dangerous and has led to all the drunkenness in
) Because find cannot eFectually the drunk
ard or him example unless am myself an entire
8, Because it is important to set safe example of
T. Because myself By sustaining healthier. wealth
Ter and happier and better fitted to perform my duty to
The last declaration be verified by every drunk
ard. All of them make the rumseliers richer and
themselves poorer
The following is true story. The gentleman Is
now living in New York. Ten years ago ut revival
service he related his experience in the following
language
aboring man coming out of of the gin shops Of
horses standing near the door. and two women richly
the The aborer stepped back into the
Whose is that ostabishmen ~
1t is mine and my wife and daughter have gone out to
NIB hi, sssS for ia, g., the: .,
~: :ss xs.,l / see ii"
for sSst carriage sns for Sose horses and for the st
and aces and jeTory tor your family The money that
and children good home and good food and
and "iA the wages pot Issorins You
sss ss snS @ s Hs: s Of
labor and win endeayor to persuade my fellow wokmen
give up entirely the use Intoxicating liquors and
for anS .y ns% n,s s nS s 'TS s
curse and the remedy, the pc.sen aud the antdote.
And that poor drunkard of the past is living in his
own house to-day blessing the day when he and the
poisoned cup parted forever.
DRINKING cLERGYNEN.
II lay aside the Bible entirely and look upon
che intemperance, associated il is with all
the suferings and crimes then the dictates of hui
mainly demand from us a stern opposition to all
rum and rumsellers. Mr.. Lockwood speaks about
the drinking clergy in Europe, but he fails to tell
what bad influence a red nosed preacher has on his
congregation He fails to tell that the most God
tearing ministry in Europe the greatest friends Of
temperance. Can there be a more degraded sight
than to a priest u preacher recing drunk
Yet have such sights in Europe and the
quence that their whole congregations were
gregations of drunkards. 1t is impossible for man
TO be a Christian and a drunkard at the time.
mo drunkard can enter the kingdom of God' is the
divine cdict, which is still in force
DYING DBUNKARD.
And how Is il at the hour of death How docs the
soul of man, under the influence of intoxicating
drinks part from it's earthly tabernacle meet the
dread presence OF its Heavenly Judge Here is the
description OF dying drunkard, az uttered by the
oquent lips of that glorious apostle of temperance,
the Very Rev. Father Thomas Burke:-
IF the greatest drunkard and the greatest sot and
slave the vice of incompetence that lived
SAYS the famous friar, "were only to have heard
what / have heard and what have seen,
that man would taste the accui sed
rink aNln M hig in
for thousand years. l remember being
called to u who dying from Of drink
Pour men were holding him down in the bed The
idea that in his delirious mind that in hold
ing him down the bed they sinking him inch
by inch into hell. With terror stricken voice he
CRIED 4 am on % bed Of fire. Oh, God. I am burn
ing. Away, away ye devils! Let rise from this
bed of tormenting hainesi Don't keep me DOWN.
While his great chest heavng and he raving,
like nnssesscd of a Thousand dexils be Grind