The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-06-26
Prohibition Unscripiual.
ARcANrM, Va, June B, 10

! LuuOF HtFNu,-lhe Nhl-lhIlnk indu
though a fool "who visits Farmville
now, does not err when he says that
tyranny and fana.icism are sin the
saddle" and justice but shadow and
a name. Let me cite a case Of cruelty
and injustice which is a disgrace to
Virginia.
A lady in Appomattox is sick-very
sick-she is wife and mother, her life
is very precious to her children, her
family doctor says she needs a
stimulant, and must hare II day Jy day
to restore her health; the husband with
PHYSICIANS prescription travels IS miles
to Farmvlle to buy quart Of spirits
for her, but to his horror aud disgust is
quite unable to procure il and has to re-
turn to that bedside empty handed de-
MED IN this land Of freedom the oppor-
tunity to purchase the remedy that he
has been told will bring his sick wife
back to life and health.
Talk about the tyranny of Russia
A wife and mother may die-aye a
thousand wives and mothers, to crafty
the dog-in-the-manger natures Of those,
who cannot use, without abusing one
OF Gods best gifts to man. / can't eat
the hay the dog says to the OK, but you
shdnt eat il.
Our Bible teaches US on every page
that each son of Adam is responsible
before God for the acts Of his individual
life, and yet our modern SOlomons
would amend this plan Of the Almighty
and say "if your neighbor gets drunk
you shall pay the penalty by being for
eyer thereafter debarred from drink
ing" and this is Prohibition. This
is mans "Thou shalt nOt' to man. /
will show to any unbiased mind that
Prohibition in its literal sense as APP
piled to the making and selling Of
alcoholic beverages is not only I'M
American, it is also unchristian, and is
violative Of the teachings, purposes and
plans of Almighty God.
When God Numbered his "Thou
shalt not, from Sinai's crest, he was
evidently satisfied, aud as in the
creation at the end Of the 9Th day be
had completed his work and he saw
that 1t was good he rested" and 80
with the commandments he rested
if there had been need Of an eleventh
command, God would have given it,
but these advise, aud only good Pro-
hibitionsts think the Almighty
through all oversight omitted to add the
eleventh command, and they have sup
piled the omission by proclaming
"Thou shalt not press the juice from the
grape OF apple, nor distill from the
corn and rye the alcohol which God
unwisely and 10y mistake placed in
these grains.n This is the true mean
ing and goal Of prohibition in its last an
nalysis, that a man or woman who
drinks, sells, or makes an alcoholic
beverage is a criminal; and this in face
Of the fact that the only pure and per
feet man that ever trod this earth,
chose in his infinite wisdom to pro-
claim his divine origin, and divine
power to a sin burdened world 10y what,
converting all the wine and liquor in
the world into pure water, and thus
remove all temptation to intemperance?
All! no! but by converting gallons up
on gallons ofpure water in that Galilean
home into Wine, and wine Of such
quality that drew forth encomiums Of
highest praisefrom Those eastern con-
nisseurs; and ye; | have heard some
extremists say II is sin to drink. Is
not the assertion in face Of this Biblical
fact, blasphemy against the son Of God ?
Many prohibilionists are sincere in
their belief that they are helping the
cause Of Christianity; but their plan,
their method is subyersiye Of, and con-
Trajectory to every teaching Of Scripture
that / am acquainted with. They
would reaOUe the temptation. All
Chrlst's teaching was to overcome. $40
him that OuercOmeth will give to sit
at my right hand.n Note this highest
honor is not reserved for him who is
never tempted, but to him who being
tempted is able to overcome.
The poor Samaritan by the wayside,
would have been in a sorry plight had
the Jew been a prohIbitionist, no wine
would have been poured between his
parched lips to restore him TO life and
health, why? because the fellow that
beat him was drunk, and in Prohibition
logic the wounded man must suffer
thirst. Chrst's PLAZA was to use the
wine as a means to the mans recovery,
and let the other fellow "wOrk out his
own salvation"
am not espOusing the cause Of
liquor against temperance. claim
that no more temperate man than !, in
theory and practice too, reads your
paper or walks your streets, aud every
day as | drink my beer or wine or
toddy thank God as sincerely, as truly
for it as do my daily meals, and |
believe he blesses it tot my use aud gives
me, in answer to my prayer, the power
over self never to abuse this or any
other Of his gifts OF blessings.
II men and women will talk tenn
perance temperately, will endeavor to
show by kind soft words, the folly, the
stupidity, the sin Of excess in drinking,
and give up the fallacious idea that
men can I've made sober through legis-
lation then they will he on the right
track, and will save many soul from
min II. or b.