The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-04-19
ANSWER u j. Z. SMITH.

EDITOR BULLETIN :--SOlHe mOhIns
ago you published a communication
from Mr.. J. +. Smith, in which he
attempted to prove that the Bible
taught intemperance, and that and
Mr.. Bailey were "lunatics" and
"crack-brained'' for believing and
preaching anything else. 1 an
swered Mr.. Smiths letter soon
after receiving it. My first and
second letters of the answer were
never published, being someway
lost.
After being satisfied that they
were lost l reproduced them, but
concluded not to send them again
for publication, as the time had
gone by; but in your issue of Jan.
29th Truth and the "Bishop of
Olba" have hinted at the same in
temperate doctrine of the Bible that
Mr.. Smith referred to, and all have
used it as club to break my head
and stop prohibition. However, the
Bishop seemed to get on the stool of
repentance soon after penning his,
and declared his Incorporate thought
"lnerely distraction and wicked
one at that - hut his repentance
was not of that God-fearing kind
tha, prevented him from doing the
thing rcpeuted Of, but like the thief
that promptly repented but kept the
stolen property.
Even so the Bishops repentance
did not prevent him from penning
the wicked thought and spreading it
broadcast over the world after he
had discovered it to be wicked
thought. Still - his club did not
reach my bcaJ I will forgive him,
in fact, will 41anl him absolution so
far as | am conrcrued. But whether
the Great Master whom he processes
to serve, will deal SO leniently with
him for wilfully penning wicked
thought, and thus serving Satar
while processing to work for the
Master, l am not able to say, but
will ask the publication of this letter
in the interest of Bible temperance
truth and humanity.
If Mr.. Smith had told us he wa
livery fond of sparkling wine" w
would have believed him without hi
emphasizing it by saying he was 81
fond of it as to relish it from cul
made out of hawless skull of
prohibitionist.
l will now notice what Mr.. Smitl
has advanced as arguments in hi'
advocacy of intemperance.
He refers to the Creation as re
corded in the Bible, as proof that
the Creator made all things in th
beginning he must have made wine
gin, brandy and rum, and of cours
made them for mans use as a bey
erages, as no other animal woul,
touch them, etc. Mr.. Smith, lie
me draw your attention to this tex
n little closer than you appear t.
have yet read it, The good boo
do not tell MS that God created al
things in the beginning found in tn
world to-day, both good and bad
but in the beginning He created al
things that then existed, and afte
they were all made he looked upo
them all and pronounced them a
good, and had them all named; bu
we don't find rum, brandy, gin c
wine among the named things whic
he had created besides, she gav
the fruits of the trees and the seet
of the herbs to man for meat" NJ
drink and rum, implements of wa
in fact, all things that make ms
miserable and shorten his life is {
invention of man, not a creation
God, and they are not TO be fouI
among the things which he calle
good on the morn of creation.
fact the history referred to by M
Smith makes no mention of wine {
strong drink until after the fiooC
when Noah made such n beastly e.
hibit of himself and brought di
grace upon himself and family, an
severe curse has rested upon on
line of his descendants from th'
day to this and all growing out
this first drunk.