Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-23
SCRIPTURAL ADVICE ON
THE DRINKING OF WINE
Quotations Offset Those Of Or. Ste
phen Bowers as to Bibles Attl-
tlde on Prohibition

| LOS ANGELES, Cal, May N'-
| editor Herald): I have read DR.
Stephen Bowers long letter in Wines
of the Old and New Testament" in Th'
| Herald of May Is and am not sur
prised at his frequent Bible quotations
which are. Of course, intended to con.
vey the idea that the Bible is altogethei
on the side of prohibition. We shal
see about that. There are two sides
to every question and here are some
Bible quotations on the liquor question
that were not referred to in the doc
tors letter. and will probably not be
emblazoned on the banners of the anti
saloon party of Los Angeles
"Give strong drink unto him that Is
ready to perish, and wine unto those
that be Of heavy hearts. Let him
drink and forget his poverty, and re-
member his misery no more" prov.
81. 6, ~
"Thou shalt bestow that money for
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. for
oxen. for sheep, or for wine, or for
strong drink" Duet. 1880
Drink no longer water, but use a
little wine for thy stomach's sake"
Q Tim, 5-23)
GO thy way, eat thy bread with JOY,
and drink thy wine with a merry heart.
for God now accepteth thy works"
(Ecles. 80
THEY shalt plant vineyards, and
drink the wine thereof" (Amos 9-14)
Wine that maketh glad the heart Of
man" Cps 104-15)
wine that cheereth God and man."
(Jud. 9-13)
"In the holy place shalt thou cause
the strong wine to be poured unto the
Lord for drink Offering" (Num. 2s-7.
In those good old days in Palestine,
when a wine famine occurred, they
howled with even a more dismal howl
than do the paid agitators of Los An
geles today. Hear how they howled:
Awake We drunkards and weep; and
howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because
of the new wine; for it is cut off from
your mouth. The drink. offering is cut
off from the house of the Lord; the
priests, the Lords ministers, mourn.
(They pretend to mourn the other way
nowadays) Gird yourselves and
lament ye priests, howl ye ministers of
the altar: come, lie all night in sack
cloth, ye ministers of my God, for the
drink offering is withholden from the
house of your God" (Joel 1, 5, 9, 1S)
GO into the house of the Rachabites,
and speak with them, and bring them
into the house of the Lord, into one of
the chambers, and give them wine 20
drink" Ger. 352)
We are told Matt. 11-19) that Christ
said: John the Baptist came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine =
The Son of Man is come eating and
drinking, and ye say, behold a glut-
tonous man, and a wine bibber." duke
7-33, 34.)
That there were good grounds for
this criticism is evident from the facr
that the first act in Christ's ministerial
career was to manufacture three barrels
of wine for wedding feast, his last
recorded act was a benediction upon the
wine cup.
Dr. Bowers fervent utterance Of:
Perish the thought" does not
alter the above facts, neither does his
statement that the wine manufactured
by Christ from water was not an in
toXicating drink convince the writer
that it was sweet cider or lemonade.
Those present at the feast declared
as one man that it was just the real
thing, and they We're all good judges
of intoxicating liquors, and having
sampled it in no uncertain manner,
presume their evidence Is more to
be depended upon than the statement
of DIR. Stephen Bowers to the contrary,
when we take into consideration the
fact that nearly two thousand years
had elapsed after the incident had
actually occurred before the doctor
ever heard tell of it. s. A. SMYTHE,
$50 East Thirty-f1rst Street.