The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-13
TOTAL ABSTINENCE IS BEST
Experienced Physicians Confess lts
Value Is lnfinltesimal In Com
parlson to Treachery.

Drink Is dangerous. Nearly all the
men and women who have been ruin
ed by II were confident they could
control themselves. II is unwhole-
some. Granting II may be useful un-
der ceNan circumstances, yet in prac-
tice 1t does harm, and that continually
The most experienced physicians will
confess that even in their hands Its
food value is infnitesmal In compari-
son to its treachery, and that It's drug
value is always matter OF experiment
and risk writes John G.. Woolley In the
New Voice. Personally, do not
think II proven always to be useless
for nutrition or injurious for medicine,
but II am not mistaken, the stalls
tics OF drunkenness will show that
doctors, OF all educated men. are its
most numerous victims.
II may be said this proves too much
since many things that everybody does
are more or less unhealthy, and that
the case would be as good against
meat eating late suppers, coffee. run
ming TO trains etc But It Is certain
ly not too much to stand up for the
sacredness Of life and It's inseparable
postlude, the invlolableness of sound,
sane and abounding health So far
from fearing to admit these other
things upon an equal footing into the
4 nH al
their kind, and make my whole claim
In the premises upon this That every
Christian ought to remember his own
body. to keep II holy-that, once II be
shown that flesh-eating is a peril or an
injury in any case. there ought to be
an end OF II in that case; that late
suppers ought to be cut out even upon
suspicion; that the old people ought
never to run to catch a train, and that
coffee ought to be put in the dock
with alcohol. II as strongly case be
made against It. | only hold as relat.
Ing to beverages and popular-remedy
alcohol that, with all the evidence in
on both sides, and giving It the bene.
fit of every reasonable doubt, II ought
10 be outlawed In individual life and
home and church and state, In the sa.
cred name of health.
From the standpoint OF the highest.
finest morality the case is yet more
easily made out OF all the forms Of
seltishness moderate drinking is the
most widely and inexorably hurtful.
The faculty Of imitation is the largest
organ in the human brain, and through
1t the drinking habit does its deadliest
havoc with the boys and girls. AS a
rule the first taste and the first ef-
fects of intoXicants are the reverse OF
pleasant to the tyro, but the mimic
stroyer into victory by even inducing
the young imitator to call for stronger,
nastier cups. and court the stagger.
ing, flushed and bloodshot characters.
tics of the set out of sheer bravado.
From the mind Of Christ" the case
has no two sides God so loved the
world that he gave every one OF US
that whosoever believeth in us might
not perish, but have better show to
live forever. The population of perdl.
tion rolls up its awful census in the
main by those who proudly and limo.
Gently believe on some good. temper.
ate men and women who tippled with.
out harm to themselves, beyond the
unconscious bunting, coarsening eff.
feet upon their highest motives.
The soul that sinneth 1t shall die"
SO runs the sacred word. 1t might
be, then. that doing right is immor.
tallty and the call of God in Jesus
Christ is simply to live In such a
way that they who pattern after us
shall do right.
At our sincerest aNd devotedest.
how to live the best for our own selves
and others is mystery; but If there
is one clear working precept in Chris.
tian life, it Is: do not touch wine or
strong drink"