Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-15

The INrELr.i0ENCER gives space 10
eAAmpion Of prohibition who advances
The eleventh hour to strike the long
|aiting shield Of challenger, who some
nOnths 40 furnished this paper with
series Of communications ON probibi-
1ou and the Bible. II Is hardly fair TO
Ell. Thompson that this answer should
- published few days before the cleo
Hon when there Is no time for rejOin-
}IDer by that gentleman, but free argu-
SI1ent can never hurt the right aud our
Fteades now have both sides Of the case
Well presented.
= II b cheering Ia find that neither
BY logic nor quotation has Mr.. Want
hlbit ion that would satisfy even lay
man Of calm Judgment. His imposing
3nass Of quotations will I've found to refer
Sehiefly to drunkenness, which all unite
In condemning. Drunkenness is GER
tainly classed among the works Of the
4 0esh, and temperance among the works
of the spirit, but we fail to find In this
classification any reference to abstinence,
which our correspondent would enforce,
and 30 remove the possibility Of exer-
C1sing the virtue of temperance.
We believe the first mention of wine
y fn Genesis Is with reference to the
drunkenness Of Noah PAS though to inn
press readers first Of all with horror of
chat great evil but the next referen ce
4 tells how Melchizedek brought forth
bread and wine and he was priest of the
most high God" Whoever will take n
Y e0neordance and search out texts under
4be head of wine will be impressed with
& the steady balancing of grave warnings
With evidences of appreciation Of what
the Rev. Want Is pleased to style intox-
icants. The reasoning from the sixth
Z commapdment might as well be applied
10 the dise of edged tools. Some of the
texts cited condemn wine, but when
/ considered with the many Others that
honor it and give thanks for it, the only
fair conclusion Is that the condemnation
\ y of intoxicatiOn, and that the lesson l.
y that wine can le made curse or bles
4 ding by abuse or use.
H "war, wine, women bring men ruin,
Quoth the poet Van der Bruin.
But war has overthrown tyranny and
wrong, wine has stimulated men to loft y
thoughts and deeds, and women have
done far more good than both.
The psalmist thanks God for "wint
h that maketh glad the heart ofman, I" bu
Z by reasoning that seems almost grotes
que, the champion Of Prohibition find
4 that as things sacrificed to idols wer
prohibited and as drunkenness was ,
~ bature Of idol worship, therefore win
lust have been sacrificed to idols an,
must he prohibited. We know that tn
Idol wOrshippers not only poured liba
d lions to the gods but also sacrificed AM
mails to them. Sheep and oxen, lambs an
obwls were sacrificed on these affairs, an,
u The eating of the flesh of things SO sacr
Need was prohibited by the early churcl
< but are We therefore to conclude that a
i }ls""" things things were and are subjec
#t0 equal prohibition? We think no,
And the principle of prohibition ther
4 applied was the same that gave force {
the command "keep yourselves fron
n from IDOLS" II was not, eat no meat
drink no wine but, do not sanction
idolatry by joining in u feast in honor q
idols. DO not sanction intemperauc
4 by getting drunk.