Show H. ROBINSON STRONG AND CLEAR ARGUMENT Editor Acting on the suggestion in your editorial of on I take the liberty afforded of presenting my views and offering a few brief comments on the passa- of scripture you have In my mind there is no in these if rightly Neither do I think there is any ground upon which one can make a logical plea in behalf of the liquor and its uses and abuses of It is evident from the reading of the scriptures and taking the views of the best that there are two classes of referred to in the scriptures fermented and unfermented the one being a poison and not good for man and the other being a good and fit for the use of I need not set up the argument that alcohol is a No matter in what form it is it has been so regarded in all ages of the world by the most intelligent medical writers and is so Neither has it any food values as shown by any of the usual methods of chemical I think I am safe in saying that fermented wine is not the wine which the scriptures tell us to drink of which God and which at the Last Supper the Lord said all it was not that but it was the kind referred to in as poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps the wine that Jeremiah says Nations have drunk therefore the are or wine which we are told in a and like a serpent and like an wine that takes away engenders leads to thousands of crimes and imposes enormous expense on state and thou spirit of tine if thou hast no other name to be known by let us call The juice of grapes exists in two totally different slates the one fermented- the other The unfermented juice has been for many years by various processes' described by ancient writers and practiced at this Unfermented juice fresh or ol is a healthy life-giving fluid capable of nourishing body and making warm and glad the heart of It been drank freely as it is squeezed and pressed from the grapes' in all It is the true scriptural wine referred to in the references you God gave the grape with its juice as a food for Destroying this food by the poisonous germs and making an cant from is man's work and man's Timothy could with safety and benefit drink for his good wholesome of the The words of the Mormon prophet advising his people to use yea pure wine of the grape and of the vine of your own is perfectly consistent with the scriptures and has reference to pure unfermented wine and not or alco-sol in any i The is a and has manifested it in To drink of it is as much a of law to us to eat of was a violation of law to flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl fell adders and poisonous serpents A twister in twisting may twist him a for in twisting a twist three twists make a if one of the twists untwists from the the twist untwisting untwists the Are you interested in Arizona and Old If it would be wise to write for full information about the short- est line and the best service from your point to those sections via the Salt Lake Utah's most popular Yours C. District Passenger |