The Montgomery tribune., 1910-05-06
Temperance
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for May 8, 1910
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like serpent. and stingeth like IN adder
PROV. 23;S2.
TIME.-solomon, who may have writ
ten this passage, reigned B. c. 96s-93s.
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.--vs. 29-35.
Some Searching Questions. Who hath
woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath
contentious? Who hath babbling7
Who hath wounds without cause?
Who hath redness of eyes?
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 II
is. Do not put yourself within reach
of its insidlous 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 we're not unknown.
when 1t 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 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
adTift In little. wave-tossed boat. "Or
as he that lieth" asleep upon the top
of mast" in the most imminent dam
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
1t again. II will seek 1t yet again."
What the Drink Demon Does to the
Drunkard's Body.-Vs. 20, "a, 35. Our
passage pictures the exterior harm
done by alcohol. the stammeAag
speech and bleared eyes, and unsteady
gait, the numbing of all the senses.
Modern science has discovered reasons
whv strong drink produces these awful
physical results.
Alcohol Is Poison.-"So is strych-
nine. so Is arsenic. so is opium. It
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 a Food. d.-Experi.
ments made upon man kept in an
air-tight glass cage and fed with two
or three ounces of alcohol 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 beverage.
Alcohol Does Not Help Men Work
"As a work-producer, alcohol is ex-
ceedingly extravagant, and. like other
extravagant measures, It is apt to
lead to physical bankruptcy. 1t is
well known that troops cannot march
on ALCOHOLISM 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 it ex,
cites men, its terrible slavery, the
awful wretchedness of the victim. and
the final decay and death of ali the
spiritual powers that makes 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 13,402 cases of
crime, and discovered intemperance to
be the sole or predominating cause In
4.179 cases--nearly one-third-~while
intemperance was contributing cause
In 2.515 additional cases. making half
uf the whole number of cases In which
intemperance appeared as q 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 43.033 arrests "a. 1902 were for drunk.
enness.
ALCOHOL ana Sulcide.-Dr. w. Kur-
bitz has made investigations. extend
ing over 21h years. in the. clinic for
mental diseases in 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
- N. ~ -
poet, Burns; cost England her great.
est alI.round man. Coleridge; made her
two greatest orators gamblers and
paupers and inmates Of a Jail; dimmed
the glory Of our Webster, guenched
| 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
| fight against the. terrible aupetita FOR