The Ocala evening star., 1905-11-25

kegs, demijohs, and packages un-
marked TO prevent Identification.
More than half of the trade of the
Ocala saloons comes from dry"
counties, so-called. The ''driest"
counties are sometimes the ''wet-
test" and they have their crimes,
casualties, tragedies, and big court
dockets. Dou't be shocked, please.
Examine the Gainesville and Citrus
county newspapers No dry" town
in Florida has yet done away with /
policemen and the ministers still 4
find sinners to preach to and call to I
repentance.
Noah and Christ forced to vote for
the saloon! What a muddling of
scriptureI Noah began to be an hus-
bandman." In this beginning he
knew lot the nature of the coming
product. The first experience knock
ed him down and two of his sons cov-
cred him with blanket, just as good
people have to nurse the results of
the liquor traffic. Who was cursed?
4 Not the ones who covered the faith
er's nakedness, but the beastly son
that exposed it. (The saloon does the
same, (After Noah's experiment God
warned against ''strong drink"
"Look not upon the wine when it is
red, that biteth and stingeth." Christ
was consistent with His own book.
He did not drink the wine that was
red" but the "good wine,' called
the fruit of the vine.n
Our Bible says that Noah planted
vineyard" and drank the wine."
1t was Ham, the younger son, who
/ wanted to make a great stir about
it, and not Noah, who received
the Course" which made Ham and
his descendants the servants of
others" unto to this good day and
has made the white mans burden"
almost intolerable to bear.
} The "wine press" is as old as the
Bible. Wine drinking seems to have
been co-equal with the human race.
, The planting of vineyards was en-
couraged in the olden times as it has
been in modern times. Wine was not
prescribed nor interdicted by Moses
nor any of the prophets of Israel. 1t
: was the ordinary drink of the peo-
ple-men, women and children-in
, ancient times as it is to-day in the
wine-growing districts of Europe and
it is the testimony of travellers, al
most without exception, that in those
districts drunkenness is largely less
than it is in Great Britain or the
United States.
No fact of history is palmer than
, that wine was a very common drink
in biblical times. Christ did not con-
denim the custom, but, on the contra
|, ry, sanctioned it. st. Paul recon-
mended it. None of the early faith
ers of the church wrote against it
nor made it the matter of church
creed, and for eighteen hundred years
/ the church was silent on the subject.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
SAYS:
"When | hear fellow get up and
twaddle about what he knows moth
, ing of; when l hear preachers talking
/ about the drinking of whiskey being
blood money, look back to the his
tory of the world, l find that no man,
no preacher, priest or statesman ever
dreamed of attempting TO prohibit
the use of liquor until about 75 or 100
= years ago, have not undertook until
: the last so years to say that man
, should not drink or that it was a sin.
, / do not hesitate to say | can find in
recognizing the use of liquor to where
you can find one which discourages it
or denounces it. Where does the sin
come in?
1.-The sin does not rest upon Bible
| authority, it rests upon the preacher 5
: authority, and l object to any preach
i er changing the scripture to suit his
[ fanaticism and to make me swallow
4 his religion. daughter and cheers
: You cannot show me in the scriptures
v except in one or two isolated cases
e where the use of wine is denounced
: as a sin, and | can show you dozer
passages where it is spoken of other
e wiSe.n
The vacated storerooms, if occupi-
Il ed by the same calss of stores that
Il are already here. will "GiVide the