The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-01-12
In Reply to DR.. Adams.

is an iuducement TO express our own
and others views, desire few words in
reply TO the article by DR.. Adams in your
last issue. Having no personal matters
to write OF, and deeming them out OF
place in 30 great an issue, / shall confne
myself to few shots at principles.
10 place myself in opposition to a
doctor may seem hazardous, but as even
doctors disagree, there is quite a margin
for me in the fact that they are not all
right, and this one may be the exception.
AS the burden Of the article is directed
TO the plea for "drink" from the Bible,
the Indifferent reader Of the word may
be led to believe that it is "wide open"
on that subject That God has saved
men that were drunkards / am glad to
admit; but be saved them not because
they were drunkards, but notwithstand-
ing that fact, The Lord would save the
drunken "vagabond," for whom there is
so little sympathy, because God is mer-
ciful, And ii he did not save some such
cases that repent of sin, there would be
difficulty in peopling the hereafter with
those who have sufficient realizing sense
of what sin is TO never repeat it. And
while the drupkard is despised of men
bacause he is 'debauched, yet the hale
fellow who gave him the glass is among
the respectable OF earth, and the framer
OF the law that gave the "license" is Of
the nobility, Albeit God has said "Woe
to him that giyeth his neighbor drink,
that putteth thy bottle to him and max
eth him drunken also," (Hab. H., l5,)
II the Dr.does not think this woe involves
all who have been party to making the
"vagabond," be certainly has read more
out OF the Bible than in it, And if the
too-tamiliar scenes of everyday life, due
to the drink custom, are not sufficient
evidence OF the need OF such q clause,
the writer Of this can but think the mind
"biased" that would denythe application.
From careful readingof the Scripture
| know Of but one license to give intox-
icating drink, and If the DR.. only follows
that, he is in a safe and good way
GIVE strong drink TO him that is ready
to perish and wine to those that be OF
heavy soul" prov. XXI, g.
Here strong drink and wine are licensed
and separated as to their qualities, Now
since, according to such authorities as
are generally accepted, "fermented" +"
wines were the strongest drink then
known (the process of distillation being
of modern times), the wine referred to
must have been unfermented. While
our DR.. may not recognize this diStinc-
ton, some doctors do, and the willing
Bible student preserves this distinction
throughout the Scriptures. There are
two or three words in the original, we
are told, that make the distinction, but
Of the New Testament have
rendered them as one-Wine. / do not
enter this as an argument in contro-
versy, for the DR.. aOiU have it otherwise,
and the old adage about "opinion" is
too familiar to use space,
The object lessons OF the drink habit |
are OF too great magnitude in evil to be |
lightly spoken Of, or the debauched in
any age to be held up as patterns to fol-
ow, or pleas for its necessity,
Now, we all know that it is wrong to
bear false Witness" but the DR.. makes
mis- customary "mistake" in referring to
,he drunkenness of Noah after the flood
md stating that the prohibitionists were
'drinkinoU was ono of the snerial sins
hat made the flood necessorv to nro.
libit, and Noah wastbe onlv one "sobern
,nough to buiId the ark and oct into II
With his family and TINS esca no tho nro'
libition act that foIlowed 81 tho br ;s
mistake can only be attributed to his
ailing that he will read out of the Bible.
God did prohibit for time at least
hall inherit the kingdom of God :" and
nen's ideas of "drHntenness', at tLat
ime will not tlikely com mmand a nremimn1
I would sugeesf n fow snbiects for The
.ersatile pen of the Dr.. snch as "The
Iirtue 81 the Drink Hohit - nThe
Health and Uanniness Insnred hv the
ilass.n a scientific treot;se On '.The
beneficial Effects mon Parent and 0ff0
pring - a work entitled 81 icensinc the
,uisance will Cleanse Society - and an.
ther on GLOW Asvnms and Prisons will
e DenopuIated by it's Extended IJse -
uch snhiects would vorv tho n,onotonv
nd he "miohtv INTERESTING readinoS for
change, '0-
Now he is ne;tbar nbilosonbor nor
enefactor who does not recognize as an
xiom that "eyerv evil invoices ali that M /
ads ia its ultimate effect !, This be;no t
,lf-evident is the Dr. nrenared to S danSS {
hat evil is in the th;no iteaif that m % ~ |
rst glass is the stem downwards tow towards M t
ne ne denlorable @ Wysoa honSS" 10 sOISSo tSare ,
OF poison in the cnn9 II sometbin9 {
efinite is necessary on this noint the s
ritter is prepared With onnntiyn sn3,;r5t s
The Dr. has M twent,eth centrrS ;deo |
! to what constitutes tannaronca ] Half M '
century ago even . man conld stoacar - t
i throneh the variows u ~ shades of onas1sStu osstu
nd onantitv Of the stnff I1 and be "a a ten. r
erancen man So lono as he d;d not - lodge G
the Gutter niobts nor toEe naoro sr,aSo sTS
,an an ordinary Sidewalk 10 and on ron u
business. y" The Tyarabond" Of TODAY a