The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22
STRONG DRINK.

The International Sunday school les
son for Nov. % is a discussion of intern
perance, based upon the following selec-
lions from the goth Psalm, according to
the American revised version:
ID Wine is a mocker, strong drink a
brawler; and whosoever erreth thereby IS
not wise 81
(20) Be not among winebfbbers; among
gluttonous Seaters of flesh; :.
CID For the drunkard and glutton snail
come Ito poverty; and drowsiness Will
clothe a man with rags.
(29} Who hath woe? who hath sorrow!
who hath contentious? who hath COM
planning? who hath wounds without
cause? who hath redness Of eyes?
(S0) They that tarry long at the wine;
they that go to seek out mixed wine.
SD Look not thou upon the wine when
it is red, when it sparkleth In the cup,
when it goeth down smoothly.
(32) At the last it biteth like serpent,
and stingeth like an adder.
(33) Thine eyes shall behold strange
things and thy heart shall utter perverse
things.
(34) Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth
down in the midst of the sea, or as ne that
lieth upon the top of a mast
1851 They have stricken me, shalt thou
say, and I was not hurt; they have beaten
men and l felt it not; when shall l awake!
I will seek it yet again.
These selections from the ancient He
brew Wisdom Literature" do not bring US
new light on the temperance question.
They simply show us that to the WoIla
keenest minds there has always been light,
and that from time immemorial liquor mas
been the curse of the human race But
the facts stated by this writer with Sucn
dramatic power are lndls put, anu
fectly if they had been written in America
in 1908.
us today is not that wine is mocker,
though it is-it mocks all high ideals and
makes dupes of those who trust 1T, Tor
it is voluble with promises which 1t never
pays-nor is the point for us that strong
as any one who is familiar with the
sights and sounds about the doors of a
saloon knows The first great point for US
is in the words whosoever erreth thereby
men are controlled more by reason and
less by inclination and momentary de-
sire, the foolish things viii be seen to be
wicked, just as the wicked things are al
ways foolish. Drinking is wicked because
it is foolish. 1t is the high privilege and
duty of every man to make the most OF
himself physically, mentally and morally.
This he cannot do unless ne rules out
the doing of foolish things There are
great many kinds of physical fool1shness
that are intemperance just as truly as
drinking is, and these should be included
in the discussion of this lesson.
The main question is. how We can pest
check the evils of intemperance. Ihe
principle must be to overcome evil with
good, and one of the practical methods is
limited at in this utterance of Henry Van
graduating class at Princeton last June.
9Intemperance,' he said. sis the type Of
all evils, because so many others grow out
Of it. The way to attack it is to make
| Teach your boys how to work, how to
read and study, you, fathers. before you
send them to college if you want to guard
them against the temptations of strong
that go with it. You reformers, provide
men with recreations that will not harm
them If you want to take away the power
of the gilded saloons