Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-05-07
Temperance
Lesson
Sandy School LsssOs for May s. 1910
Specially Arranged for This Papsr

Jerusalem.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Subject: The Victorious Drink De
mon and How 90 Conquer Him.
The Passage Explained VS. 1885.
Some Searching Questions Who hath
woe? Who hath sorrow? who hath
eontentions? Who hath babbling.
Who hath wounds without cause7
Who hath redness Of eyes?
The Answer.-3O "They that tarrv
long at the wine" beginning early in
the day and carousing till late az
night. They that go 20 seek mixed
vine"
The Only Safety-31. Look not
thou upon the wine" DO not take the
FIRST glass. DO not even go where Il
Is. DO not put yourself within reach
OF its insidioUs allurements SAYS the
Arab proverb. THE contemplation OF
vice is vice" when 70 Is red as Il
usually was iu Palestine. though white
and golden wine were not unknown
When 10 giveth his color iu the cup
when IL moVeth itself Alright"
The Drunkard's Degradation. His
Lust.-33. Thine ewes shall behold
strange women" Thine heart shall
utter peryerse things"
His Insensibuity 10 Peru.-34 Thou
shalt be as he that lieth down I'm the
midst Of the sea. " like q floating. half
drowned body. or q helpless man cast
adrift In "a little. wave-tossed boat. "Or
as DE that lieth" asleep upon the top
Of a mast" in the most imminent dan
Ger from the exaggerated pitching Of
the ship yet stupidity inscnsible 20 the
peril.
His Euslavement TO the Habit -
when shall I awake" The druukard
IS eager TO shake on the supplying ef
fleets Of his orgies. that le may be at
10 again. Il will seek Il yet again"
What the Drink Demon Does 90 the
Drunkard's Body.-Vs. 29. 81. 35. our
passage pictures the exterior harm
done by alcohol. the stammerinr
speech and bleared eyes. and unsteady
gait. che numbinC OF all the senses
Modern science has discovered reasons
Why strong drink produces these awful
physical results.
Alcohol Is Poison. So is strych-
nine. 90 IS arsenic. so is opium. Il
ranks with these agents. Health is
always in some way or other injured
by o.: benefited by it-never."- Sir
Andrew Clark. 81 D.
Alcohol is Not Food Expert
ments made upon a man kept i'm an
alright glass cage and fed with two
or three ounces OF alcohol day i'm adj
dition TO his other drink and his food
have seemed 10 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 I'M favor OF the use OF
alcohol as a beverage.
Alcohol Does Not Help Men Work
AS a work-producer. alcohol is ex-
ceedingly extravaganza. and. like other
eItrayagant measures. il is apt 10
lead 20 physical bankruptcy. II is
well known that troops cannot march
on alcohol Sir Frederick Treyes.
What the Drink Demon Does 10 the
Drunkard's Soul-Vs. %. 33. 80. 81
Our passage paints the passion which
wine intames, the lust 20 which IL ex-
cites men. It's terrible slavery, the
awful wretchedness Of the victim. and
the final decay and death of an the
spiritual powers that makes a man.
Alcohol and Crime.-The committee
OF fifty. eminent American scholars
that undertook the scientific investiga-
ton Of the liquor question a few wears
ago. examined into 1902 cases Of
crime. and discovered intemperance to
be the sole or predominating cause Ia
4,l19 cases nearly one-third-whiIe
incompetence was a contributing cause
IN 2.5l5 additional cases. making half
OF the whole number of cases In which
incompetence appeared as a factor.
statistics OF the arrests made in most
OF our large cities show half OF them.
or more than half. due 20 drunkenness.
For Boston. for instance. in 1900 ont
OF 1903 arrests p 1872 were for drunk
enness.
Alcohol and Suicidc.-Dr. W. Kur.
bitz has made Investigations. extend
Ing over 2le years. in the clinic for
mental diseases ia Koenigsberg CON
corning the history OF patients who
have 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 70 the hands OF
a man like stephen A. Douglas -
Newell Dwight Hills ID. ID.
The greatest general Of modern
times, 4. 5. Grant. fought his greatest
fight against the terrible appetite for
strong drink that had seized upon him
His son. Mai. Gen. Frederick d. Grant.
an outspoken abstainer. says: Drink
is the greatest curse OF Christendom.
because practically ALI crime and all
disaster are the result OF IT, Ninety
five per cent Will make il no less
Of desertions and acts Of lswlessness