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ton for his lack of prohibition princi-

ton for his lack of prohibition princi-
pies.
Martin Luther, credited with being
the father OF Professionalism, was any
thing but a prohibitionist. On page 574
Of Kostlins life of Luther, we find a let
ter to his wife, in which Luther says.
"The town council gives me for each
meal a half-pint of Reinfall, which is
very good. The wine of this country is
also fine and Nuenburg beer is excellent"
On page SAL of the same work we are
informed: "Mrs. Luther at Nittenburg
brewed, and it was then the custom,
their own beer" IL seems that Luther
had a brewery in his own home.
My next witness is Thomas Coke, first
Methodist bishop, who died in 1914; that
he was not infected with prohibition
heresy is shown by his journal for the
year 1893. lie tells of his journey from
Dominica and adds:
MY friends had furnished me with
few bottles of excellent old rum for my
voyage, but after was in bed these
poor creatures 1.-THE sailors got a hold
of it and intoxicated themselves"
as excellent He considered a few
bottles Of this excellent old rum good
for his voyage. The fact that when
drank by'th sailors it made them drunk
proves IL was the genuine article and
I not a brand of grape Juice.
Is anybody prepared TO say that Luz
! Their, Calvin and Wesley did not under
stand their Christian duty-did not un-
derstand their biblesg
Our next witness is the Rev. Francis
Asbury, known as the father of Ameri-
can Methodism. He died in 1915 He Is
the man who dedicated the church in
this city of which Rev. Dawson is the
pastor. Rev. Dawson and his congrega-
ton are now celebrating the l2sth anni-
versary OF that event and preaching pro
hibition night and day. In Asbury's
journal under date of March ~ 1905, he
said:
1T is lawful to eat but not to glut-
tony; It is lawful TO drink, but not TO
drunkenness"
This expresses the position of all who
oppose prohibition today. 1t is abso-
lutely contrary to the policy and prin-
ciples advocated by Rev. Dawson who
would guild the tomb of his prophet but
attack the principles which he held sa-
cred. The modern prohibition preachers
who disagree with the founders of their
church can hardly expect us to reject
John Wesley for Wayne B. Wheeler. ac.
cept Bill Sunday and repudiate John
/, Calvini glorify Rev. Prettyman and turn
, our backs upon Bishop Coke, first bishop
OF the Methodist Church, or receive Rev
Dawson as a mouthpiece of Jehovah anC
! assign to infamy the name Of Francis
) Asbury who said it was lawful I,
drink but not TO drunkenness
But 1 would reject the testimony o
J.. all the founders of modern scots if 4
. did not agree with the doctrines pro
claimed by the early Fathers.
. Tatian, who fourished in the secon,
century was the first to establish
prohibition sect among Christians. II
Icalled this sect the "Enkratites," o
water drinkers. Tatian was condemne
for his prohibition heresy by st. jerome
st. Clement and st. Ireneus. The latte
denounced 1im as the incarnation of al
heresies." Finally Apostolic Canon .
was issued against the prohibition fol
lowers of Tatian and they were told Z
? abandon their prohibition heresy or sur
I lrender their membership in the churc
7 of Christ.