Show temperance AND THE BIBLE A contributor to the logan journal writing about the temperance rance question reviews sundry passages in the old and new testament bearing ori on the subject and then comes to this gloomy conclusion after all this can any man tell on which side of the question the bible stands Is it not on both sides it is a witness as r ready eady to swear for plaintiff as defendant a guide pointing east and west at the same time to the great astonishment of the bewildered wil dered traveler right and wrong are alternately on the sides of drinking and abstaining and a man who seeks for information in the bible on this subject is farther oft off when done than when he began deplorable if true por for if the sacred records are so ambiguous if they give forth such an uncertain sound upon a question of great importance what faith adith can be placed in them in other respects fortunately the bible is quite clear on the temperance question as on everything that pertains to the moral conduct of human beings and a statement to the contrary should not be permitted to pass by unnoticed in our mountain homes the tact fact to Is that in the bible the evil consequences of drunkenness are set forth very strongly in the history of noah lot and for instance while the virtue of total ab sti nence to is emphasized in the history of samson daniel and john the baptist the royal sage in the brov lays 31 47 4 7 that strong drink is not for kings nor for princes but for those who are in distress as a means of forgetting for the time being their misery was there ever a stronger argument advanced for temperance it is here plainly stated that strong drink is not for those who have responsible positions in life and the inference is that it unfits them for the duties of those positions but besides such examples and declarations there are principles enunciated which if applied to the question under consideration leave no doubt as to what is right or wrong in the matter one of these reads whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do do all to the glory i of god give no occasion of stumbling elther either to jews or to greeks or to the church of god acor ea cor 1031 1021 32 82 1 here is another whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honorable whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report these things do phil 38 9 1 this cavers the whole question what is to the glory of the almi almighty and what is a stumbling block to il his children the drinking traffic or tho th temperance cause Is it the former or the latter of which we can truthful ily 1 say that it is honorable pure lovely and of good report there is really no ambiguity no pointing two ways as to what is right or wrong in this matter |