The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-06
Temperance
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for May 8, 1910
Specially Arranged for This Paper

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 babbling?
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 1t
is, Do not put yourself within reach
of its insidious allurements. Says the
Arab proverb, 1.-THE contemplation Of
vice is vice." when 1t is red, AS it
usually was in Palestine, though white
and golden wine were not unknown.
when it giveth his color in the cup"
when 1t 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
adrfff in, q 1iff1n MO -fnCond hnQf HnF
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
1t again. 81 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 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. 1t
ranks with these agents. Health is
always in some way or other injured
by it; benefited by it-never. "-Sir
Andrew Clark, M. D.
Alcohol Is Not Food.-Experi-
ments made upon a man kept in an
alright 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 work-producer, alcohol is ex-
ceedingly extravagant, and, like other
extravagant measures, 1t is apt to
lead to 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, 80, 49,
Our passage paints the passion which
wine infiames. the lust to which it ex-
cites men, its terrible slavery, the
awful Indebtedness of the victim, and
the final decay and death of all the
spiritual powers that makes man.
Alcohol and Crime.-The committee
of fifty, eminent American scholars
that undertook the scientific investiga-
ton 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
of the whole number of cases In which
intemperance 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 43,033 arrests 1892 were for drunk
enness.
Alcohol and Suicide.-Dr. W. Kur-
bitz has made investigations, extend
ing over pa 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.-"Remembe
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
q 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 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 all crime and all
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