Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-07-11

Inv strong! drink, that continue ,un-
til. night, til! wine in1ame them;
"Woen is a necessary result or such
excuses as are here described.
In the twenty-eighth verse OF
the twenty-seventh chapter OF
Genesis. we are told that, in bless
inc Jacob, Isaac said: "Therefore
God give thee of the dew of heaveE;
and the fatness of the earth, and
plenty of corn and Wine" 1t is EVIL
dent that Isaac, the grand OLA pa
triarch, did not regard the temper
ate use of VINE as sin; for he ask
, ed God to give his son plenty OF
wine as blessing. -,
The seventh verse of the nlnth
chapter of Ecclt siastes is as foll2Ws:
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with
| ioy. and drink thy wine with
merry heart; for God. now accept
eth thy works" In this passage,
the sacred writer actually advised
| that the person addressed, whose
works were then acceptable to
God, should drink wine With
merry heart,
verses of the second chapter OF
Joel contain these words: "Then
will the Lord be jealous for his
land and pity his people. Yea, the
Lord will answer, and say, Behold;
| / will send you corn and wine aud
oil, and ye shall be satisfied there.
Within Can anyone believe that
i God would have promised to send
his people wine, if it had been sin
for them to use it te,nperately?
The eighteenth and nineteenth
verses of the sixth chapter of Sec.
| ond Samuel are as follows: "1nd
as soon as David had made an end
! of offering burnt offerings and
peace offerings, he blessed the pao.
| ple in the name of the Lord OF
hosts. And he dealt among all the
people, even among the whole null
titude of Israel as we'll to the Wo'
men as men, to every one, cake
of bread, and good piece OF hesh,
and a flagon of wine" In the thir-
teenth chapter of The Acts, we are
| told that God said: 81 have found
David. the son Of Jesse, man after
mine own heart, which shall full.
| fill all my will" -And this good
man, after conducting a solemn re-
, ljgious service, and after blessing
the people in the name of the LDrd
of hosts, gave to every one OF them
tn every man and every woman, 4
fiagon Of wine! Besides, when
David fell into temporary error, as
, he sometimes did, the fact thai ht
was in error is made plain by the
sacred writers; but, in regard to his
treating the people to this stupen'
d0us quantity of wine, there is not
a word of censure in the entire
Bible. -,
The fourteenth verse of the TWEEN.
ty-eighth chapter of Numbers con-
, sists of these words: "And their
drink offerings shall be halfa hin
!, of wine unto bullock, and the
third part of IL hin unto ram, and
the fourth part of a hin unto a
! lamb: this is the burnt Offering
of every month throughout the
! months of the year."
, The tenth verse of the fifteentt
chapter of Numbers is as follows
2 sand thou shalt bring for drink
offering half a hin of wine, for al
offering made by FIRE, of a swee
t SAVIOR unto the Lord"
3 That the Most High God, al
I, though he required his chosen peo
: pie TO manufacture, every year,
7. vast quantity of wine, and to con
3 yey it to his altar, there to produc,
a sweet SAVIOR for him, yet made |
Y a sin for his creatures to use win
(. temporarily, is utterly incredible
e We cannot hold, Mr. Editor, tha
{ the right to use Intoxicating l1quo
temperately, which rights recog
! nized by the Old Testadmsn! men!
Z is gnsge tIss wis that GO
1.-The sW, .Testa me ntssl sgsn
YsfrstNer ersesof ths: aPtersA
ttiansS we are Atold. that #thos
. who are guilty of drunkenness
r "shall not inherit the kingdom U
8 God" AS have said before, drunk
8 enness implies gross excess. Tn
q seventeenth and eie ,eenth verse
e ofthe fifth chapter OF phesians ar
!. as follows: "Wherefore, be not un
s wise, but understanding what tn
o will of the Lord is. And be no
" drunk with wine, wherein. is eS
!, cess; but be filed with the spirit.
I In this passage, it is made so clea
} that excess in the use of wine, an
not temperate use, is forbidden tina
T no comment is necessary.
The third verse of the fourt
j chapter of First Peter is as follows
!: "For the time past Of our life ma,
!, suffice us to have wrought the vii
r of the Gentiles when we walked il
$ lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine
: revelIings, banquetings, and abom
3 Unable idolatries." You will notice
{ Mr. Editor, that it is not the use o
wine, but "excess of wine," that tn
Apostle Peter here classes with va
. ri0us sins.
The third verse of the secon'
chapter of Titus consists of thes
words: "The aged women likewise
that they be in behavior as becom
: eth holiness, not false accusers, no
: given to much wine, teachers o
good things" We learn from thi
passage, Mr. Editor, that, even fo
; women to be Sin behavior as be
cometh holiness, it is not necessa
ry for them to abstain from tht
temperate use of wine. They are
required only to abstain from
"much" wine.
The eighth verse of The third
chapter Of First Timothy is as fol
fows: Likewise must the deacon:
be grave, not double-tongued, not
given to much wine, not greedy oi
filthy lucre." This passage, MI
Editor, as well as several of the
preceding ones, was written by Paul
the inspired Apostle. He does not
forbid the deacons to use wine tenn.
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