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pretty high authority for taking drink.
Thrac "atatutcs Of noi," antl tnahy others
70 which tiave not time TO refes, prove con-
s,ns,sly tns the ', is IL tstor Of
portant nnint wo must not fall 70 notice, VIZ:
lint II another Statute OF God u Is Wild, tho
faee Of mankind has, by direct inheritance,
taken all its blood from THO families Of drunken
Nnah. Thus nur inherited blood, nu. Inherited
religion. n1ake drunkenness certain, as well as
authoritative.
Noah, Il must be presumed, was the best
Us soon ~ tho " wct spell" was over. he planlotl
q. vineyard ani rot glorIously lnto1tvated q,
The flrst crop. and never drew 4 soher ureath
aftermass!s. 70 far A we are Informed. This is
not the frat instance that the bIundcriDg GoI
OF TITO Jews mtstook his man.
Who cnn wonder that with such an an
eestry. on ths bench Of ths great g;,t ocean
co1ai '% m ..s.bcd s 'rs pSa Of ss ,u0ks 5ss
slain " ntncl Who can won'ler TINT this
ghastty accumulation Of centuries Is being
heapcd higher ani higher, unior tho Influence
Of hereditary blood, AMI ali hereditary wine
II any ono happcns to. be skcp.lcal A. to ali
the blend and religion Of tlle races Of mankind
having coma through lt,e drunken veins Of
hopc for = better tlror or iwo from, Kon,a or
Grecre, he would lind hut little consolation In
that direction. The old t'rceKs weru like the
] Jcws,--w!nc With them was "ths nectar ot gods
AuA lEcus'' A1nNuIt Htlh tIH1EEA VLllGE k}UEksf
eau4 of its divine qualities. 1t rhcered Father
on Mnunt Sinai. Thc "Biiad old man ou o
scIo's rocky lstc," as well NJ Solomon .an,i
wrote, :. With lenient beverage Iw.ncI iii your
empty yefns.' Ucsnocritus, tiko UanIct, nb-
| stunning frotn making sot vi himself !" for
provo that no person ought to drink morc than
| SIX 0fasace day.
Epictesus wrote. "A man Is = trnukard who
takas inoru than three glastcs." You sec tic
| quantity required depended OH the tempcfa.
n,rnt 0t tic trtnker,
| il we look Into the New Testament, ws read
| that John the baptist catno neither eating
bread Or bringing vine, md they sa4 :" lie haiti
| a devil" Jcsus ca.no doing both, nnu
| theY Faid, q Behold rlutton and wiak-
b!bber.n' which indicates that drinking was no
eln, md total aostinencc no virtue.
paul.taught that moderate drinking is good
not. to get drunk. Ae adviscd Timothy to
but !" drink winc," which Is lar1ucss. jesus
MT ouly sct t. te example a. . w.inedrink'ng, tut
bad eeea exhausted By . aI pihaous ssp'1it set x
FAST Joung men at wedding. Tn that oc-
saslon lie used what scems 70 10 diatespectfui
ordinary standards, VIZ: - Womant What hAvo
to do With thcer'-whicl raises the suspicion
at least that no hatl take1l glass or two too
| much Himself.
I Yet, III vlew OF such record as this. Miss VII
| lard dominates Hin as Prohibition candidate
| for Governor Of "our native land, TINT we may
havo "hosne projection against strong drink;
uinl, odfaus as wotnau.sutttago Is to her cxquts-
1atusc for the right of suffrage herself, TINT she
ulay "v0te for Jcsus.n
A. temperance man, must protest against
Miss Willarl's candidate, rith such record.
| 4rniu. II hnE haRu A6rtrfu1nRt1 in IHa r,tn
ttcal ngo tint moderate drinking prepares tho
appetite for ttnnsodtras drinking; il.at drunk.
ards arc made, by slow lt9rees, Of indulgence,
learned. They preached aea!ast drunkenness,
drnnkenness it ;. Christian Unln Temper
auce woman a." should do exactly as Paul uri
Jesus did, Miss Willard, I am quite sure. would
move her expulsion from the :" Union" Paul
antiIcsus were not prohibttfonsta. Not one ot
the Inspired mon OF the Old Testament was q
prohihitionlst. Not one Of tho writers Of The
Did Tcstahent, or the New, were woman-suf.
frAgfsts.
Tie Christian Churches. Catl,o!c or Prot.
| estant, have never construed tic Old or New
Testament - In favor OF total abstinence. Tic
Chrlstian Churches bare never regarded 1t al
improper Or immoral to drink vino and strong
| drinks, nnd do not now so regaru 1t, cxcept In
inconsidcrahc numbers. The churches Ut En-
eiand nnd Scotland, up to this h'ar, are no
| the Elglfsh and Scotch boards Of Trade. Ou
lie Other hand, The scotcf, aud English clergy
arc notorious for their drinking propensitics
And no one can ea1l them to account on Chris
tLan grounds. The Bible nI,d tho Christian
Church. from Christian potnt Of yJcw, bRrc
been and now afe the chlof souross ind bulwarks
| Ut intetnporance, as they wer1 of slavery few
years a9o. Christian nations hase NOT only
but they have forced the cyll upon so.called
hca.i1cn nattona, together with opium aud to
baeeo England cpslayc1 100 rnilliops Of total
abssiuenco tlEndoos 10 brltisf, India o. nov
wagtng another war to secure tho remainder oi
1nda) tauKht them to drink whisky, nIade i
whisky mart Of Calcutta, compelled them tt
raise 0plnni and furccd tho Chinese TO buy It aI
tho el1ln0n'n mUutll.
Arc!,dcacon Jcl1ries, Of the English Church
declared that with alt tho efforts Ut Chrtstiar
nhtt1ns to convert the hoatllen to Christianity
''for every convert We haye Madr, We haVt
mndc thousand hrupkartls.2 Christianity
thc bible, aud the Chrlstian Church is sesponsi
beside.
Long before tbs daughter Of Levi teariull,
committed hor lcaky llttla craft Ut bullrushcs
waters or tiic Nile, .lc " iIoiy Law" OF tho a,i
ctcnt DrAhmtns forbade tllu uso Ut strong drink
and punished tl!u lrInkaTd VIII. twcnty.esh
helIs instead OF one; + = Bralnln was cauEh
more, "boIi,ug hut" Thls was tl,o oarlcs
religious prohibition. anA II gave tn
wnrfA tho tlrst example Ut o fohcr poople
| }iti1Ab08 nave always DG6ff u8ttfSaIssiaa ~
subrlety, untll Chrfstian Eufope 4ent then
mastrrs, missionaries, md ntsory, In the shap
ot r1tln, oplutn, and theology, in about cqus
tarta.
Tic Koran prohibited wlno-drlnkiue Us sin
T't!s prohibition has lscn practically recognizes
as tarllnal principle OF tho Moslon fnttn io
twelve centuries. and tquor-drluklng and drunk
enness hayo been ~ rare md secr9t with sio
haInmoiaus ss adultery with chrlrtlans. Adu!
tury Is prohibited ty the Christian re1!0io,, nn.
has bssu driven Tito tho 5ark: Fhs. psohte|
Christian countries. liuu,strinkinx waa no
prohibited by Tho Chststtan retialutI, nor by III
civil eaAit, and tho result Il tint Christians nr
/ rutsl-iytnkeEa aud sots,
II Christian Eurorc ahall 9nally parcel up III
Ottoman Empire. cunTlGE anl QYupy The re
n,aindcr Of Asia, Alld BY force Of C4ristIan pul
lets a1Id tayoncts substitute thB {iEuek aud I'm
1.ts.. Churches for i}saisnfnstn a.,u the Muscs,
lallh, Mussutn.ana and llluduos wilt learn tn
yjcp uf drunkenness, IN whicl. 10 drown this ls,l
initiation Ut their unsaYtnenI.
Cunstautinoplc. liko Hung KonG aud Cafcus
ia, will becullu IN utnn market f0r thu dtstrbl
ttun vi The prGlucta Of Chrlsltan llaslllcries an
| Wrt1 ne nftut linz. unI nil