The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-05-05
Temperance
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Memory verse, 81.
GOLDEN TExT.-"At the last It biteth
like serpent, and stingeth like an adder
PROV. 1882
TIME.-Soomon, who may have writ
ten this passage. reigned b. c. 969-939
PLACE.-Solomon reigned and wrote In
Jerusalem
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Subject: The Victorious Drink De-
mon and How to Conquer Him
The Passage Explained 1895
Some Searching Questions Who hath
woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath
contentious? Who hath babbling?
Who hath wounds without cause?
Who hath redness Of eyes7
The Answer.-30 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 1t
is Do not put yourself within reach
of its insidious allurements. Says the
Arab proverb. "The contemplation of
vice Is vice" when II is ed,"-as II
usually was in Palestine. though white
and golden wine we're not unknown.
when it giveth his color in the cup"
when II moveth itself Alright"
The Drunkard's Degradation His
Lust.--33 Thine eyes shall behold
strange women" Thine heart shall
utter perverse things"
His Insensibility TO Peril.-34 Thou
shalt be as he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea-" like a floating, half.
drowned body, or helpless man cast
| adrift In little, wave-tossed boat "Or
as he that lieth" asleep upon the top
of mast" in the most imminent dan.
ger from the exaggerated pitching of
the ship, yet stupidity insensible to the
peril
His Enslavement to the Habit
When shall 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. 30, "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 senses
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 II
ranks with these agents Health is
always in some way or other injured
by It; benefited by it-never"-Sir
Andrew Clark. NJ d.
Alcohol Is Not Food-Experi-
ments made upon a man kept in an
| air-tight 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 extravasant, and, like other
| eXtravagant measures, II is apt to
lead to a physical bankruptcy It 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, 32
Our passage paints the passion which
wine infiames, the lust to which II ex
cites men, its terrible slavery, the
awful wretchedness of the victim, and
hnnaxy
spiritual powers that makes a man.
Alcohol and Crime.-The committee
OF fifty, eminent American scholars
that undertook the scientific investiga.
tion of the liquor question few years
ago, examined into 49, 402 cases of
crime, and discovered intemperance TO
be the sole or predominating cause in
4.l19 cases-nearly one-third-while
lntemperance was contributing cause
IN 2,5l5 additional cases, making half
OF the whole number of cases In which
intenperance appeared as a factor
Statistics of the arrests made in most
OF our large cities show half of them.
or more than half, due to drunkenness
For Boston, for instance. In 1900. out
Of 43,0S3 arrests 1882 were for drunk.
enness
Alcohol and Suicide.-Dr w. Kur.
bltz has made Investigations, extend
8 over 21s years, in the clinic for
mental diseases n Koenigs berg con.
yerning the history OF patients who
nave committed suicide. Among 81
such patients there were 20 who were
pronounced alcoholics
Alcohol and Genius .-"Remember
that liquor cost Scotland her greatest
poet Burns; cost England her great
est all-round man, Coleridge; made her
TWO greatest orators gamblers and
paupers and inmates of Jail; dimmed
the glory of our Webster, quenched
the torch committed to the hands of
man like Stephen A. Douglas. -
Newell Dwight Hills, d. d.
The greatest general OF modern
times U. s. Grant. fought his greatest
tight against the terrible appetite for
ct drinx 10 hoA