The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-28

THE universal designation for IL.
1mented brape juice is yayin, corxor
spending to the Greek word '0inoC
and the Latin 'vinum: -
In all the passages ] read to y0u
from the Bible, where wine is mon~
toned, the original word is "'yayins
'oinos" and "shekhar," the latter
meaning strong drink made from any
thing other than grapes.
Some times men who pretend To ID
scholars will tell you that the original
Hebrew word "shekhar" translated
strong drink" really means sugar.
On page 1913 of volume 10 of Nc
Clintock & Strong's Encyclopedias Of
Biblical and Theological LiteratWo,
we find that this high authority de-
clares:
"A vain attempt has been made BY
connecting the word (shekhar) etm0-
logically with sugar to prove in the
face OF the clearest facts to the con
trary that it was a sweet non-intoxi-
eating syrup
The Jewish Encyclopedia, written
by 600 Hebrew scholars and published
by Funk & Wagnalls, dispels all mys-
terry as to the meaning of the term
"yayin" or the root word from which
it sprung. On pages 532 and 53S of
volume IL We are informed that
'yayin" means 'matured or ferment-
ed wine" That "shekhar'' means
'old powerful red wine," or strong
drink. Also that in Rabbinical liter
allure wine is called ''yayin" not be-
cause it is a pulpy mass, but because
when drunk to excess it brings Ia
mentations and wailings."
| That is the meaning of the root
word. In volume 10, page 1O11, OF
McClintock & Strong's Encyclopedias
of Biblical and Theological Litera-
ture, we find this statement:
"Yayin" means fermented grape
juice. In no passage can it be posi-
| lively shown to have any other mean
! ing. The same is true of its equiva-
lent congeners Greek "oinos," Latin
"vinum"
The highest authorities completely
confound and refute my critics who
seek to make you believe that have
misrepresented the plain meaning or
scripture ON the question of drink
In their comment on the passage
where st. Paul says that deacon
| should not be given too much wine"
! McClintock & Strong in their Ency-
clopaedia of BiblicaI and Theological
Literature, volume 10, page 1916,
say:
"The Bible makes no distinction
| between intoxicating and nOn-intoxi-
eating wine. If the wine referred to
were not intoxicating the apostle
might as well have exhorted them
against drinking too much milk or
water. He takes for granted the right
| to use, he recognizes the danger in
cident to use, but instead of prohib-
iting, he cautions and exhorts against
excess. Moderation in eating and
drinking is the broad Christian law"
On the question of prohibition the
Anti-Saloon League stands with Ia
tian, the man who founded the first
prohibition sect in the second cen
fury. His followers were called
"Enkratites" Dr. John Henry Blunt
in his Dictionary of Heresies, Sects
and Schools of Thought, on page 591,
says:
"Tatian condemns wine as the man
ufacture of the Devil
He was denounced as the incarna-
ton of all heresies by st. Clement.
ST. Ireneus and ST. Cyprian-
On page IA, DR.. Blunt quotes Apos-
tolic Canon 81, issued by the early
Christian church against the prohibit
ton heresy of Tatian and his follow
ers. The canon reads:
eff any bishop, priest, deacon or
layman abstain from wine out of abb
horance, as having forgotten that all
things are very good, let him amend
or else be disposed and cast out of
the church"
To-day an effort is being made to
reverse the position taken by the
primitive church and expel men who
refuse to accept the prohibition here
sy of Tatian. Which is more apt to
be in harmony with the divine order.
the earthly Fathers of the church who
touched hands with the disciples OF
| Christ, or Some modern political
preacher? Mohammet agreed with
Tatian that wine is abomination of
! the works of Satan. Both were in
example of Christ Christ stood for
the force of law-the sword.
| Now, my friends, in conclusion, l
want to talk to you a little while
about liberty. | am opposed to prohi-
bition because it is opposed to liberty
When you pronounce the word liber-
ty, the birds sing, the flowers bloom.
the sun shines and the rivers run
laughin to the sea.
Pronounce the word prohibition
and you hear the clank of chains,
the clang of prison doors, and the cry
of the oppressed. 1t would be impos-
sible for me to tell you all the things
that liberty has done for mankind
Human speeches contains many brave
and beautiful words. Wife, love,
mother, home and liberty are words
around which cluster pearls of joy
words that breathe a tender senti-
ment that lift mankind from the s0r-
did things of earth to the noble and
sublime. But without liberty love is
a mockery and the home becomes
prison in which wife and other lose
half their charms.
Liberty breathed upon Leonidas at
ThormODylae and he wrote his name