Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-05-11
w. C. r. u.
G7his Coiumnis Ediicdunderthe Direeiion
ofthc w. O. T. Union. Of Perrvsbur
TOWNSHIPS LETTER.


poet al qnutaliurs. lie can roar ynu n
piece from PolloUk'a "Cnurse OF Time" or
lleber's "Icy Mountains" aud likes 10 be
around ut general conference time aud ai
the college quarterly meetings. The State
Of New Jrrsey hps just passed u very high
license bill. Bnt this will not do. Gener.
nj III Ike thinks that there ought Ia he
NO COMPROMISE WITH LIQUOR
whttrvet. The very making ui II, lie SAYS
IL M .fTtuce against God. lie scouts the
idea that God had anything to do with
putting alcohol Into rye aud wheat and pn.
iatoes, etc. Man went aud did that after
dark went and smugsled the alcohol intU
all these plants.
Geo. Alfred does moi say what he means
would like TO have men think that alcohol
is III the rye, wheat aud potatoes, ia good
creature of God" But lie knows too much
to say 30 and knows enough 10 write such
stnil which would insinuale the absurdity.
He knows that alcohol is formed from
sugar in decomposition and that there is
no such thing in the rye, wheat or potato'
but that those are composed Of materials
which can be turned into sugar, and from
this, alcohol can be produced.
In the Christian Union, of May 2, a Re-
ligious paper, edited by christian man, is
an article on "Christian LIBERTY" which
must have been written by one who had
been reading Geo. Alfred Townsend and
Interpreted it according to its possibilities
and not according to the categorical state
ment. lie gives very good illustration
Of the evolution Of scientific falsity.
"Alcohol," says this writer, "is natur-
al product. Let us take, as the very sim
plest illustration to make our meaning
clesr-alcohol. 1t IS a natural product.
God is making it all the time. 1t is in the
water, in the herbs, in the human flesh.
II is one Of the most common Ingredients
Of nature; and yet, probably, there are
not few of our readers that practically
regard alcohol as the product OF the devil.
They believe it is evil, and only evil, and
that continually, and they want to destroy
it. But one must needs be very industrious
10 destroy what GOd is continually maklngi
and God is continually making alcohol
There is but one Christian method of deal.
ing, as there Is but one scientific method Of
dealing, with it. 1t IS by asking and ans
wering the questions. What is its use
What It's functions? There Is good scien-
tiic authority for saying that alcohol new
er serves the purpose OF food, and never,
therefore, should be used for food. We do
not propose here 10 consider the question.
Science must answer il, and until it is ans
wered we may very well give ourselves the
benefit OF the doubt, and not use alcohol
for food. But the final Christian duty is
| that which science also points out TO Ms,
the duty OF ascertaining the true use Of al
coliol, and using 1t for that purpose, and
none other. The duty is TO use as not
abusing it. AGy reform that undertakes TO
work lis way toward the future by destroy
ng anything that God has made Is a pre-
ordained aud certain failure"
The conclusion which is reached is very
proper one. But II does not follow from
the false statement that "alcohol is nat
ural product in the water, in the herbs, in
the human fesh." ("In the rye, in the
wheat,.in the potatoes" says Geo. Alfred
DR.. Henry Monroe, OF Hull Medical Col
lege. England, says: "Alcohol is nc
where to be found in any product, wal
never itself created by God, but is essen
TALLY an artificial thing prepared by man
through the Obstructive process Of fermen-
tation."
fermentation" says Baron Won Leibeg
"is nothing else but the putrifsction oil 8
substance containing no nitrogen, "and Lei
beg further says, "Acohol cannot be evol'
we'd from The sugar of vegetable matter un'
til after vinons fermentation sets in"
DR.. Geo b. Wood says, in the United
States dispensatory, a standard authorit,
among druggists, "Alcohol is the product
of sugar in liquid state, diluted at I
temperature of from go to rs degrees an,
the presence OF Terment called yinou
fermentation"
Later Investigations have established III,
fnct that this iermenl il living anima
called microbe, known by the scientific
name OF Torpuia Csrerisiae (Lalnn for corr
twists) or corn twists. Pretty well named
considering the twists produced in TIN
consumers OF The ercrement of these germ
or twists. This corn twist consumes tn
sugar and breatlies out carbonic gas AM
exCreies the alcohol. And tins excremen
the Christian Union man would have u
believe. was"in the water, IN the herbs AM
in the human flesh" made and put ther
by God as one Of the most common ingre
dienls Of nature.
But the thought is disgusting. The rot
ting manure pile bears the same relation
to the grasses and the grains, that alcollo
does 10 the apple, the grape and the barley
The animals Oh our iarms have elimina
ted their food and the waste is pat on
course to be converted into plant food
This, :he microbe, does for the sugar o
: grains aud lr uils, CONSUMES il and puts III
waste ou a course to be converted into
form winch can be used for heat or 10 pro
tect other matters from the attack oil III,
destroying microbes which cannot live i
any material VIII ich contains 20 per cen
Of this excrementory matter which we cal
alcohol.
. So much for science as against sensa ion
, al letter writers.