Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-03-25
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It Biteth Like a Serpent and
Stingeth Like an Adder" Prov.
1882
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Everywhere.
Ext SITION.-I. Six Great Evils
That esult From Indulgence in
Wine, 20, 80. Solomon here gives us
a very vivid picture of six evils that
result from indulgence in wine. Cen
turtles have passed since. Solomon's
day, but it is as true in our day as it
was in his that these evils pursue the
winebibber. Note them carefully.
(1)."Woe." literally, obi" l.. e., the
"Oh." How many "Ohs" are arising
women whose bodies are tortured
with the many ills that arise from the
use of alcoholic stimulants. I can
see still the mar that I once carried
bodily through the streets OF a city
shrfeking "Oh, oh, OH" in indescrib-
able agony from drink, and T see him
later as I held him down with my
knee upon his chest as they strapped
him to a bed in the hospital. (2)
Sorrow literally, "Alas," i. e., the
deep seated and abiding grief that
causes n to cry, ALAS! alas!" This
sorrow of the drunkard is Of innum-
cradle forms. Sometimes it is the
sorrow of seeing loved wife and chill
dren reduced from plenty to poverty.
| Sometimes it is the sorrow of being
passed Upon the street unnoticed by
old-time friends and associates. Some
times it is the sorrow of standing by
the grave of the one beautiful and
happy wife who has diedsof a broken
heart owe her loved ones degrade
ton. CD Contentious" Conten-
tons at home, contentious in society,
contentious in the place of business.
contentious on the street. Alcohol
mothers most of the broils in this
world. If a man wants perpetual war
let him drink. "a "Complaining."
(R. W Wine Injuries the stomach
and breaks down the nerves and
thereby spoils the disposition. The
drinker soon becomes a grumbler and
the grumbler is miserable under any
circumstances. 60 wounds with
out cause" Go to the police court
tomorrow morning and see the black
eyes, broken noses, crippled arms and
legs, chewsd.ears and more serious
and entire cessary wounds that
have comd drink. co "Red-
ness of eye sign of distempered
brain and p~6nition of approach
ing insanity and death. Note that
these things come from "wine," not
merely from the stronger distilled
liquors.
III. The Only Wise Attitude To-
ward Wine. 81. Look not thou upon
the wine" This is total abstinence
with a vengeance. Not only "don't
taste" but don't look It is. good
advice, inspired advice. If a thing
ought to be left alone, leave it alone
utterly. There are many who do not
mean to sin, but they will just look
at the sin. That look is fatal. Eve
first looked, then she lusted. then she
ate, then she died (Gen. 3:6). Many
a man and woman has taken the same
path to the drunkard's grave and the
drunkard's hell. II wouldn't drink
wine for anything, but I do like to
look at it. 1t has such a beautiful
color. IT sparkles so. How smoothly
it would go down! Just look there!
Just a sip now. Delicious! Another
Just one more. What is the matter
/ am dizzy. I am drowsy. I an
, dead. I damned" Don't look at it
Ill. "At the last So. "At the
last" Three significant words. Il
men could only see the end from the
beginning, how many things they
would leave undone which they nov
do. Before entering upon any course
, OF action we ought always to ash
! where it ends. There Is a way thai
seemeth right unto a man. but the
end thereof is the ways of death
fchap. 14:12l. The "a of the wine
drinker is undoubtedly such a way.
". The Wine Drinkers Eyes and
Heart, So. Thine eyes shall behold
strange things" (R. W. Indeed
they shall. They shall see things ou'
Of all proper. proportion, they shall
see double, they shall see snakes ant
monsters and devils. The drinking
s man has perverted vision. physical
mental, moral. Folly looks like wis
dom and wisdom looks like folly
= Right appears wrong and wrong ap
pears right. A man who is truthful
and honest and pure when sober, will
lie and steal and commit abominatio1
when he has drank a little. Wine in
capacitates men for business, TO,
study, for decent living. If we TAX
the rendering of the A. ", the verse
is still true. for when the stomach i
full of wine the eyes are full of lust
i. How many a young man Eyes, ant
young woman) has taken his frs
step in uncomfortable vileness whel
all that is bad in him has been set OF
fire by a glass or two Of wine. VIM
is :he seducer's most potent ally.
v. The Wine Drinkers Brain, 81
! 35. The head Of the drinker reel
;. and he is stupid. He losses to an,
= fro as she that lieth down in tn
. midst Of the sea" and SWAPS back an,
= forth as che that lieth upon the to-
: Of a mast" It is a graphic picture o
:. a d~runkard's confused and unstead.
mental condition. Furthermore tn,
I brain is for the time insensible to in
: iuries received end the drinking maj