The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-13

used, and means unfermented grape
juice, then and now drunk as a bev-
erage. II there was a wine that might
be used as well as condemned, which
would Christ and his Apostles be
most likely to sanction? The wine
that "maketh red the eyes,, that
"biteth like a serpent and stingeth
like an adder, that "decieveth", that
"maketh drunken and mad; or the
wine that maketh glad the heart
that is good, blessing. 1t Is ccnceiv-
ed there can be but one answer to
this question, ladies, that every can
did and reverent Christian must he
forced to the conclusion that the wine
which Jesus made at the marriage
feast at Cana Of Gallilee, and used in
his last supper with his disciples, and
which Paul advised Timothy to drink
for his stomachs sake, was the I'M
fermented, innocuous and popular
Tirosh. Therefore 'Yayin is the one
generally employed when wine is de-
nounced, and 'Tirosh' when it is
praised The conclusion therefore to
be drawn from a consideration of the
Scriptures is that the distinction is
between the two terms.
Next, which will be second, is the
physiological view. This, however
presents three distinct points to me
The first is the effects of alcoholic
liquors in quantities sufficient to pro-
I duce intoxication, and second: their
effects when habitually used in mod
crate quantities, and third: the eff
feet of abstaining from them alto
gether.
First-It is usually maintained that
insanity, idiocy, almost every form Of
organic disease, many chronic. not g
few acute disorders are frequent re
suits of ,habitual intoxication; that the
children Of drunkards are often idiotit
and have transmitted to them various
diseases which are produced by ex
cessive drinking. know of a case ir
This man was hard drinker They
have one little boy who actual.
walks like a drunk man, and is per
fectly silly, something this child vii
carry all through life. by those grea
mistakes our men today are making
; Excessive drinking, therefore tend!
! to the deterioration of the race. Tha
drunkards are always the first victims
of epidemics, and that can be shown
, from tables Of mortality. drinking has
marked effect in shortening life
leaving out minor points such as al
alleged effect of alcohol in impairins
the digestion. In the first place al
cohol can never have been intended
by nature for food for men. 1t il
never produced spontaneously in ma
ture. The vegetable world yields il
abundance the principles which form
flesh. and those which keep up the
heat in the body, but the health!
plant never produces alcohol. In the
body, too, in health, food is neve1
converted into alcohol. and the bod,
does not merely produce alcohol, i
treats it as a foreign element, anc
gets rid of it as fast as possible, JUS
the same as you or l would treat {
snake, or the sting of serpent, We
want to get rid of 1t.
! The second place, alcohol in thu
body by taking up the oxygen supplied
through the lungs, checks the form
ing of tissue. upon which life and the
production of energy, muscular o.
mental, depend, and similarly it i'm
pedes the efforts of the body to ge
rid of the waste matters which are
the products of the burning. 1t thus
lowers the vitality, vitiates the bloot