Show Scriptures on Prohibition Startup Claims that Hebrew Records Forbid the Use of Fermented Editor Utah Dear Your article of the headed on including an invitation to your readers to furnish you some information and argument on the question You quote some passages of scripture touching on the use of and draw the conclusion that God had been a He would have said so somewhere in Holy and that he would have chopped down the tree of and thus removed education and free moral agency from Adam and Eve and their There are plainly two kinds of wine recognized in the one that is intoxicating and the other Ancient preserve the same although in some instances the same word is used to indicate just as we today use the word cider to indicate either the unfermented apple juice or that which has been and Alcohol is produced only by and that the ancients were acquainted with several modes of preventing and the fruit juice in its wholesome is clearly shown by reference to In we have a very significant reference to as according lb Kitto's not thou upon the wine when it is when it its' bubble in the when it itself the English version of the the distinctions made in the original are often obscured and wholly In the different kinds of wine are indicated by different which are all rendered in the English translation by one word The principal words thus employed and according to Biblical refers to the juice of the grape in any It might be sweet or fermented or or was the term applied to any sweet juice derived from any other source beside the It is sometimes translated It usually refers to the juice of the palm-tree or of its the like it included the fermented as well as the unfermented condition of the was applied to the ripe fruit of the and to the fresh juice of the grape before fermentation had It is often translated The Greek word corresponds exactly with the Hebrew and means the juice of the grape in any of its It seems' clear that there were two of recognized in the one which was and the other dand we find the in some instances speaking of wine in terms on commendation and in others condemning it in the most forcible is it not reason-ble to conclude that when wine is condemned it is the alcoholic and when its use is recommended it is the wholesome In view of the quotation made in your paper of from Ephesians be not drunk with wherein is but filled with the hasa different meaning than that implied by your putting the words is iu black be not is a definite and bearing in mind that the experience of the world has always been that the drunkard always starts as a moderate the author of that command would be inconsistent if he meant that intoxicating wine could be if not I take it that the above Biblical injunction is plainly against the use of for the injunction is plain that one should be filled with the of God aud not with the of in any The phrase filled with the being so opposed to the effect of seems to bear out this for all exper- has shown that single drink of liquor affects the organism so as to lower the patients' conception of right and to quote of John Hopkins The remark of Paul to a little wine for thy stomach's is in exact accord with modern for grape is considered the very best remedy for certain forms of J The passage in John plainly shows that two kinds of wine were one that was and one that was and the kind Jesus made is said to be of the To judge what is meant by and we only have to take the life of Jesus to that he stood for sobriety and would not be likely to make wine that would produce a condition which would the persona conception of right and wron- A scriptural reference to wine which plainly shows that the Bible writers had in mind both fermented and unfermented wines is m numbers shall separ-a We If from wine Md and shall drink no vinegar of or vinegar of sta neither shall he 31 liquor of grapes Also note this from is a drink is and whosoever deceived thereby is not Nothing in that which permits t use of alcoholic even J small And again verbs and be and guide heart in the Be not wine among riotous ta ers of for-the drunkard the shall come to and drowsiness shall clothe am with Said M unto them that rise up Iy in the that theft follow strong that cont until till wine i Also crown of to the drunk of overcome wine M as touching your God was a would He not have cut do tree of life and removed education and fre and M i agency from Adam their Tim a m is asked by reason of on pae page what prohibitionists We do not want to take agency of but to prevent those who f d agency to such an Worn carrying Fj traffic that induces others foot We same principle as re-fL Lj on tie as does the L of the United that the a undertakes tn the to to to he Leafed Lis liberty la a menace io com- A llian nas the right but that right Ems at the where another Vs nose He can think all he but let him to carry it and gets An has no personal libery tie exercise of which is a danger itlie community f it that we never hear the liberty argument sprung in connection with the limitations put on in regard to the of properties or ani-nials that are a danger to the majority of the commission ft certain crimes such as sexual disturbing the use of maintaining of places of ill It is Plainly demonstrable that the fast majority of such evils are to use of Hence flat sort of logic is it that gives government the power and to legislate against the of alcohol and yet not be J to legislate against the real itself t God said that 2 1 J for in the day thou y thereof thou surely ti J m a 6 sense that the Prohibitionists He Salaw Provided a penal-tie breaking and t does not take away any mo than the st adultery prevents man 2 hi and to license the not down the tree of nor removing Lord knows there will be enough What we want to do is to stop the artificial the advertisement and commercializing of the means of mans' We might as well argue that man has the to advertise and sell articles or books calculated to encourage his fellows to become patrons of fallen or that he could maintain a school to give practical lessons in as' to contend that his is interfered with when the government forbids him to manufacture and dispose of the which is the mother of most And the I would not be exceeding its powers nor treading on personal if it made it unlawful for the individual to even manufacture liquor and consume it for every citizen owes it to the world to keep a clear head and a healthy and when he does that which deprives society of his best efforts he is has- the right to protect as against and the latter has the right to protect as much so as the individual has a right to protect himself against encroachments on his rights or A. |