Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-25

Line regular > asetings OF the w. U. Il. u. OF
Yankton will be held at 8 p, M. on the first
and third Thurs days of each month, at the
Methodist Churc hi
From q leng thy temperance article in
her possession Mrs. j. Ell. Teller has
kindly prepar ed the following compre-
hensiye abstri ,>t for the w. g. T. q.
column. 1t il logical, aud ought to be
convincing:
The questio n of abstinence from in
toxicating dri nks is capable of being
argued on three distinct grounds, scrip
tural, physiel ogical and social.
The scriptu raj argument in favor of
abstinence from Intoxicating liquors
may be brief y stated. The only strong
drink mentic ned In the bible is wine.
1t Is both praised and blamed. The
question raised by teetotallers is: Are
the sacred writers referring in both cases
to the same kinds OF wine. On sxamina-
ton it Id found that two prominent
terms for wine are usad, namely, yayin
HhS eAASohp VAo htS VI tuGS6 lb LlS gen
eric term for wine, and therefore as it
must embrace fermented liquor it is the
term used when wine is denounced.
Thus it is yayin shat is a mocksr''
proverbs 2o,1th) "ThAt is not to be
looked upon (Prov. 90. 1892 etc. On
the other hand when tirosh is the word
used, which meal the wine in clusters,
the actual grape itself or the infer
mented juice thereof, then as now Iiber-
ally drunk as a beverage by the inhabi-
tsnts of Syria. The application OF this
view to the new testament is obvious.
If there was a wine chat might be used
as we'll as a wine that was condemned,
which would Christ and his apostles be
most likely to sanction, the wine that
"maketh red the eyes" that "biteth like
a serpent and 'stingeth like an adder
or the wine that "maketh glad the
heart" that ls "geod," a 'sblessing," etc Z
In q werd, yayin in any OF its dangerous
forms, or the innocent tirosh that cheers
but not inebriates. Every candid chris
tan must be forced to the conclusion
that the wine which Jesus made at the
marriage feast at Cana and used in his
last supper with his disciples, and
which Paul advlssd Timothy to drink
for his stomach's sake, was the unfer.
mented, innocent and popular tirosh.
The physiological argument may
be stated thus. Alcohol car
never have been intended by
nature for tho food of men. 1t is never
produced spontaneously in nature. The
vegetable world yields in abundance the
principles which form the flesh and those
which keep up the heat of the body, but
tbs healthy plant never produces alco-
hol. In the body in health food is never
converted into alcohol. And the body
does not merely not produce alcohol; il
treats it as q foreign element and gets
rid of it rs fast as possible. Alcohol II
> the body, by taking mp tho oxygen, sup.
piled through the lungs, checks tht
burning of tissue upon which life and
the production OF energy depends; and
il impedes the efforts of the body to gel
rid of the waste matters which are the
products of the burning. It thus lowers
vitality, v~itiates the blood, and prevents
the production of healthy fiber. The
stimulation produced by alcohol is sue.
ceeded by reaction and the quan.
tity taken must constantly be increased
From this cause moderate drinking tends
to pass into excessive drinking, about
this evil consequences of which there is
no dispute.
The, social arguments in favor of total
abstinence can be indicated in a few
sentences. It is affirmed that the use O.
alcoholic drinks is at the root of all the
misfortunes OF the poorest and most
numerous class, that it is the chiel
cause Of pauperism, the chief cause OF
crinae, and the frequent occasion of i'm,
morally. Such are the seductive in
husnoss OF drink and good fellowship
that moderate drinkers are in danger Of
becoming drunkards; thus the use oil
liquors effects the ruin of q considerable
percentage of the middle and upper
Classes. Total abstinence is demanded
as . measure of personal precaution,
because no one who drinks at all is safe
against falling into drunkenness; as q
patriotic duty incumbent upon those
who desire the improvement of the
poorer GLASSES, as q duty of example
which every man owes to his neighbor,
and which, involving self.denial, must
have q favorable reflex influence upon
character.
AHoPEFUL OUTLOOK.
Prohibition is the car in which thous.
ands are now embarking, and its pro.
grsss is forward. never backward. The
cry that "prohibition does not prohibit"
~ 49, as