Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-05
Temperance
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for May 8. 1910
Specially Arranged for This Paper

Memory verse. 81.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"At the last II biteth
like n serpent. and stingeth like an adder
Prov. 23:32.
Solomon. who may have writ
ten this passage, reigned b. C. 969-939.
PLACE.-Solomon reigned n wrote In
Jerusalem.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Subject: The Victorious Drink De-
mon and How to Conquer Him.
The Passage Explained.-Vs. 1885.
Some Searching Questions. Who hath
woe? Who hath sorrow? who hath
contentious? Who hath babbling?
Who hath wounds without cause?
Who hath redness of eyes?
The Answered.. "They that tarry
long at the wine." beginning early In
the day and %carousing till late at
night. "They that go to seek mixed
wine"
The Only Safety.-31. Look not
thou upon the wine" Do not take the
first glass. DO not even go where II
is. Dc not put yourself within reach
OF It's insidious allurements. Says the
Arab proverb, "The contemplation OF
vice Is vice" when II Is red."-as II
usually was In Palestine. though white
and golden wine were not unknown.
"When it giveth his color in the cup"
when It moveth itself Alright"
The Drunkard's Degradation. His
Lust.-33. thine eyes shall behold
strange women" Thine heart shall
utter perverse things"
His I~nsensibility TO Peril.-34. Thou
shalt be as he that lieth down In the
midst of the sea-" like a floating. half
drowned body, or a helpless man cast
adrift in a little, wave-tossed boat. "Or
as he that lieth" asleep upon the top
of a mast" in the most imminent dan
ger from the exaggerated pitching OF
the ship. yet stupidity insensible to the
peril.
His E~nslavement to the Habit
when shall I awaken" The drunkard
is eager to shake off the supplying eff
fects of his orgies, that he may be at
II again. ~ will seek II yet again."
What the Drink Demon Does to the
Drunkard's ~Body.-Vs. 80. "a. 35. Our
passage pictures the exterior harm
done by alcohol. the stammering
speech and bleared eyes. and unsteady
gait. the numbing of all the sense
Modern science has discovered reasons
why strong drink produces these awful
physical results.
Alcohol Is a Poison.-"So Is strych-
nine. so is arsenic. SO is opium. 1t
ranks with these agents, Health is
always in some way or other injured
by It; benefited by it-never."-Sir
Andrew Clark. NJ. ID.
Alcohol Is Not d Food.-Experi.
ments made upon a man kept In an
alright glass cage and fed with two
or three ounces of alcohol a day in ad-
dition to his other drink and his food
have seemed to show that the alcohol
did not reduce the system but yielded
energy. acting as fat, sugar and starch
would have acted. But the experiment
proved nothing in favor of the use OF
alcohol as a beverage.
Alcohol Does Not Help Men Work.
"As a work-producer, alcohol is ex'
~ceedingly extravagant, and. like Other
extravagant measures. 1t Is apt to
lead to a physical bankruptcy. 1t Is
well known that troops cannot march
on alcohol Sir Frederick Treves.
What the Drink Demon Does to the
Drunkard's Soul.--Vs. 20. 33. 35, 80
Our passage paints the passion which
wine infames. the lust to which 1t ex
cites men. it's terrible slavery, the
awful Indebtedness of the victim, and
the final decay and death of all ths
spiritual powers that makes q man.
Alcohol and Crime.-The committe,
of fifty, eminent American scholar!
that undertook the scientific investiga
ton OF the liquor question a few year.
ago, examined into l3.402 cases o
crime. and discovered intemperance Il
be the sole or predominating cause II
intemperance was a contributing caus'
in 2,5l5 additional cases, making hal
of the whole number of cases In whicl
intemperance appeared as a factor
Statistics of the arrests made in mos
. of our large cities show half of them
or more than half. due to drunkenness
For Boston, for instance. in 1900, GU
of AZ. O33 arrests q. 1872 were for drunk
enness.
Alcohol and Suicjde.-Dr. w. Kul
bitz has made Investigations, extend
ing over az years, in the clinic TO
mental diseases in K~oenigsberg cor
corning the history Of patients VIII
have committed suicide. Among s
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