The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-06

Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for May 8. 1910
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LESSON TExT.-Proverbs 23:29-s5.
Memory verse, 81.
GOLDEN TExT.-"At the last It biteth
like a serpent. and stingeth like an adder.
PROV. 23:32.
TIME.-Soiomon. who may have writ
ten this passage. reigned B. G. 969-9SS.
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. 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 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 IL
is. Do not put yourself within reach
Of its insidious allurements. Says the
Arab proverb. THE contemplation Of
viceis vice." When 1t Is red,"-as 1t
usually was in Palestine. though white
and golden wine were not unknown.
when 1t 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 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 Enslavement to the Habit
when shall / awake?" The drunkard
is eager to shake OF the supplying eff
fects of his orgies. that he may be at
1t again. Il will seek 1t yet again."
What the Drink Demon Does to the
Drunkard's Body.-Vs. %. "a. IS. 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. Il
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 a 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
extrayagant measures. 1t 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. 80.
Our passage paints the passion which
wine infames. the lust-to which it ex-
cites men. its terrible slavery. the
awful wretchedness of the victim, and
the final decay and death of all the
spiritual powers that makes a man.
Alcohol and Mental Power.-"Ex-
periments as to the time required for
learning by rote have been conducted
with great care. For six successive
days the subject studied groups of IL
figures for a half hour each day. and
during these days the capacity for
learning increased from 700 to 1900
figures. Then the same subject was
given alcohol during II days, and the
capacity for learning by rote decreased
from 1900 to $50. figures."-Dudley M.
Culver, NJ. d.
Alcohol and Crime.-The committee
Of fifty, eminent American scholars
that undertook the scientific investiga-
ton of the liquor question a few years
ago. examined into 13.402 cases of
crime, and discovered intemperance to
be the sole or predominating cause in
Alto cases-neary one-third-while
intemperance was a contributing cause
in 2.515 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 to drunkenness.
For Boston. for instance, in 1900, out
Of AZ. O33 arrests q. 1872 were for drunk
enness.
Alcohol and Suicide.-Dr. W. Kur-
bitz has made Investigations. extend
ing over IN years, in the clinic for
mental diseases in K~oenigsberg 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