The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-01-26

glove at me, shrek out, 0Oh all your
s reading is outside Of the Bible"-an Old
, saw you had probably heard your grand
+ mother use, or some yelfow-legged chick
en- eater with about three months school
ing, when cornered in an argument by
some bright boy that knew more than
: lie did 1 hardly think your friend IL
the "cOrner" was satisfied by that left
! handed sWing--and Ialmost see HIM now
moving his knees as il in the act OF
. apringng up to snatch away his gloves.
thought l had driven the nalI anu
clirched it, but | see there IS no use III
cIinching nail after driving it through
Z handful Of sawdust
, You say that all the world was drunk
before the food and Noah was the ONLY
one sober enough to build the ark Dc
you learn th!s IN the Blble2 You cannot
ind one word in the Book to show thai
wine was ever known before the hccd
v G inter It was, because Noah planted
.cultiyatedl q vineyard as soon as he
Ieit the ark. Nothing more natural than
Tor hlm TO 20 straight to bis old home
and scratch o little around those choice
grapeylnes, AZ TO where he got the wine
70 get drunk on, theoogians differ My
opinion is that one Of his "sons," know
ng the cid genlleman's fondness for il,
had slowed away q few demiohn under
The loose hay in the ark, which accord
ing to my figures was about 2, l27 tons
and even then the animals had to be pu
on short rations before the grass started
You say, sister, that God saves drunk
ard now and then if he repents, or he
would probably lack subjects to fill up
his hereafter" viii you please point
70 ne your proof that Noah even repent
ed Of his debauch2 Ii he slipped in as
an unrepentent drunkard why not let Il
few more like him slip in while the gates
stand ajsr2 You say that the food de-
stroyed the world because they were all
drunken. We're the sheep and the doves,
canary birds and ali the innocent an
imals that God said he would drown
and did drown-ali drunk? But there i.
another animal, the serpent, that wGs
more subtle than any beast Of the field
which the Lord God had made" Gen. |
| 3:l, What became Of him? Was he |
stored away in the ark because he, like |
Noah, was temperate? Or was God 80
'mercilCi" as to overlook the little slip
he made in tempting Eve to involve the |
whole human race, including AL animals,
IN everlasting ruin? He aud his wife |
must have been taken in by Noah, or |
else crawled in and hid themselves under |
the hay alongside those demi Johns eth
er this or they were mighty good swim-
ners. We certainly have no evidence |
that they ever got drunk-thc reason |
why the flood was sent
Now, SIS to this wine business before
the iioCd people differ. Cruden, the
greatest Bible reader of his age, treats it
thus; Several OF the ancients were OF
opinion that wine was not in use before
the deiuge and that Noah was the first
who used the liquor Ii wine, say they,
had been known before the food, Abel
would not have failed to bring an offer
ng Of it to the Lord, and Noah would
have been Oh his guard 50 as not to have
drank OF it to excess. But on the ether
hand, 1t is maintained byothers that tits
much more probable that the first men
we're not ignorant Of the use Of VINE,
which is liquor so generally useful and
agreeable that it could scarcely have
been unknown TO Adam himself"
have traced the use Of wine from Adam
down through succeeding ages-noWhere
condemned, often recommended TIL we
come to little squad tauntng prohi-
bltlon Tag, and carried by q little
blue-pellied Yankee down in. Maine-on
a soil SO poor and rocky as to produce
little else than Canada thistles and social
monomanacs But 1t seems you have
round passage in Hab. 2;l5 that you
think dssproyes all passages have quot
ed II favor OF the temperate use OF wine. D..
IL means as you read it, "h oe to him
who offers his ntighbor drink Of wine"
0At you put your loot in it by quoting
lhe passage ia full; "Noo to him that
gigcth his neighbor drink, that putteth
thy bottle to him and makeCh him
In your blind struggle to
hnd Bible arguments to contradict my
quotations IN favor Of temperance, you
nre passage at me denouncing drua&-
ea1aeSS, and yet you boast Of being care
mi reader OF the S5Criptures[?) Don't
you think, dear sister it is about time |
Tor you to throwcup the sponge and re- /
tire to your 'ooluer2" You are sprawl
ng on the floor, knocked out" by that >
terrific left swing intended for me, but +
winch you landed squarely in your own .
eye Let us look little further at sam /
Pies OF your learning and logic. You say =
hat the passage in Prov 81 IS, Give +
strong drink to him that is ready to per !
sh and wine to him that be OF heavy =
soul" You say that is all right, Very 9
ven. Then why does your little clan II
Wish law to prohibit" us from doing +
lther? Do you clamor for q statute law
o repeal one OF Gods lawsl Again: r
You think that wine and strong drink o
ire not synonomous-that strong drink &
8 fermented and wine unfermented h
,rape juice, and you conclude so because +
hey had no distileres then. Do YOU =
nov OF any distiliery now making wine? y
10 You not know that OtrOs, the Greek n
or VINE, meant either wine or strong q
rink, and the traaslators who furnished Il
IS the captuagint Use the two express n
Ions merely to avoid tautology? h
)cesn't every classical writer ALWAYS a
VOID the use Of the same word twice in i
lose connection? You SAY we are told" Il
nat there was two or three words" in n
ne original that make this distinction. 4
,ou have been "told so" by your aunt, h
erhaps, who found the statement in II
he little tract, Poor Blind Sarah" h
onverted squaw, which read and cried 10
yer 70 years age | cannot find the .,
two or three words" in the Septuagint, Sa
annot tind them in the Hebrew Bible, A,
r the Koran; they are absent in the %,
haldean Targums, they are oonspic- \
ously absent III the writings Of the y
buddhist est. Satya, the 9th incarnation !;
WlSdom;' they are not in the writ =,
1873 OIL Contucius (Kungtutze) born in e.
nina, Jan, 49, 55l years before Christ.
nd who taught the same doctrines of
huSt did and gave US the "Golden ~
ule, word for word, as Christ gave it. r. r.
cannot End your two OF thgee words }nI
the Mormon Bible, the Westminster ~,
,ntession OF faith, oreyen in the "Ateth- 90 90
list Discipline, where it ought to be if es S
,ere Is any truth in it, But YOU yeur- '''