The New York herald., 1922-03-19

the same for you. Begin in the MORN
ing and take a little at time, but
keep at it, Drink two gallons day II
you can hold It."
but it may make me drunk"
Suppose it does. Better be drunk
than dead. If you get drunk just lie
still and sleep, but VIXEN you wake UP
fill up. Stick to it. 1t seems to me to
be your only chance"
He did it and in ten days he was
sitting up: in three weeks he was
walking around. and shortly after
went back to his Office. For years
afterward whenever / met him he
would shake my hand and say / had
saved his life. and that he never had
felt better than he did at that moment.
Since prohibition came in he has died.
believe 1t, and it alone, killed him.
Some years ago my doctor ordered
me take beer. He said my stomach
was not secreting hydrochloric acid
properly and needed the bitter as a
tonic and the nutrition of TIE malt
also. / followed his advice and got
rid of the trouble, gained weight and
was able. to dispense with the beer.
These two cases are the most con-
vincing to me personally. but in my
experience as pastor, in visiting the
sick for thirty years, have seen many
instances Of its beneficial effect in
anamia, and also in insomnia when
tie hops acted as a harmless soporifc.
Further, I have persuaded drunk
ards to substitute beer for whisky and
tharchxr Iao IN oit
and respectable members of the COM
munity.
When was boy I was reporter
on the Toronto Globe and was a firm
believer in total abstinence till one
afternoon when I was sent to fill two
assignments in the same building. The
first was a meeting Of the Toronto
Licensed Victuallers Association, and
| found them rudy, healthy, happy,
kindly, clean and efficient lot of men.
From that meeting went directly to
report gathering of temperance re-
formers In another room. l found
them dirty. unkempt, anmmic and
unwholesome looking set. They were
quarrelsome and snappy with each
other, petty In their ideas and ineffi-
cient in action. Yet they talked about
alcoholic beverages running the bodies
and souls Of everybody, and right then
/ decided that their appearance and
their actions gave the lie to their
words.
That was nearly forty years ago. 7
have been studying human nature ana
moral problems ever since and trying
to keep an open mind, but / an still
OF the same opinion.
Christians Using Liquor Are
Ruddy, Healthy and Happy
What ! found true then on D small
scale holds true. in the largest, and
widest sphere. comparison OF ma
tons. The Christian countries that
are the greatest users of alcoholic
beverages are the ruddjest, healthiest,
happiest, cleanest, kindliest and most
efficient; while the Mahometan ma
tions that have been total abstaincrs
for 1000 years, are the sallowest,
gloomiest, cruelest and least efficient,
and. In some respects, the dirtiest,
What better test could you have?
Here are two men who founded re-
ligions, for Jesus was man even If
tic was God. Ono made wine part or
His religion and His followers have
used alcoholic beverages until scofers
sneeringly say that the Bible and al
cohol so hand in hand. So they do.
And SO God intended them TO do
Look at the result.
The other forbade his followers 10
use alcoholic beverages, and what is
the consequence? Mahometans are
intensely religious. They bring their
religion into everything; but the more
religious they are the more cruel they
are. The more sincere and earnest
they are the more diabolical arc their
actions.
Could there be any better proof that
prohibition is Of Satan and against
! God?