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Show H YHE SALOON ADVOCATE 1H AND THE SCRIPTURES H Tt is not my intention, nor have H I the least desire, to retaliate by call- M Ing the unknown writer of "Further H Answering Mr. McKay," opprobrious H names. If he chooses to Insinuate Hl that nn fellow-workers in this cam- H paign for the elimination of the sa- M loot and I are "preacher-politicians," H he may do so, and may continue to M do so without hope or fear of any re- M ply from me. When a man, howover, m in" any campaign leaves the dignified M plane of argument, and, stooping to H ihc low level of the slander monger, H begins to hurl opprobrious epithets H and base insinuations, it Is time to H call a halt. It was hoped that this H controversy might Le carried on wlth- out personal bitterness; and so far asj B I am concerned, St shall be. I will, H therefore, permit to go unanswered H the insinuations you make in tho first Hj paragraph of your article the basest M that have vet appeared from any pen in this campaign. H You say that "To establish tho fact M that the manufacture, sale or use of H an alcoholic "beverage Is in itself a sin would require the absolute repudi- H atlon o'f the Bible." Than this broad, M unqualified assertion, a "more em- M phatic indication" of your Idea of the M "gullibility" of the good peoplo of Ogden "has not yet appeared Evi- dently, you would have peoplo infer M that to use alcoholic beverages, and, M of course, to havo tho necessary al-m al-m - cohollc dispensaries (saloons), is Jn M accordance with the direct command H' of God. But the fact 1b that tho H revelations of: tho Ixrd are just tho M opposite. Since you have, presum- M ably, read tho Bible from Genesis to H Revelations in search -for passages m concerning the -word "wine," you will m admit, of course, that excessive use m of wine and drunkenness is con- H demned. Tha t is why, I take it, you H use the phrase "In itaolf." H Now, the use of alcoholic beverage Hj is "in itself a sin as the following H facts show: m FirsL Sin is a violation of divine B law. fl Second. Alcohol when taken even M In. small quantities is injurious to the JJJ body. One hundred leading profes- M Gors iri the leading universities of M Germany have so declared: "All the H , prevalent ideas in regard to the in- H vigorating and otherwise supposedly H beneficial properties o'f alcohol In H small doses have been proved errone- H ous by scientific research. Moderate JhVJ drinking has a tendency to make the PH human body more liable to disease M and to shorten life." H On the 18th of December, 1902, In M t the city of Paris, a report was made H by a committee of the government, M drafted by Professor DoBove, Dean 1 of the Faculty of Medicine, and Dr. PH Faisons, Physician to the Hotel Dlcu, M in which wc find the following: "AN PPJ cohol is useful to nobody, it is harm- P ful to all. It leads, at the very least, P ; to the hospital , for alcoholism causes P ; r great variety of diseases, many of P them most deadly." H I Third. That v,'lch vitiates and M ' leads to a defilement of the body is M condemned by the scripture as fol- Hl "Know yo not that ye arc the tern- 1 ' pie of God, and that the spirit of God H dwelleth in you? If any man defile H j (or destroy) the temple of God, him H j shall God destroy; for the temple of M God is loly, which temple yo are." I 1 I Cor. 3: 16, 17. H A man commits sin who in any way H violates this command. H ,k Here is anothor fact, which, I know, 1 you will not accept, but it is true Just H the same: The use of alcoholic bev- H erages, being harmful to the body is 1 intemperance; arid your attempts to 1 class alcohol with foods, and advocate fl j a temperate use of It is extreme foil v. M "Temperance is the moderate use of H ' all things helpful, a total abstinence 1 from all things harmful." H i The uee of alcohol "in itself leads H to revelling, rioting, and drunkenness, 1 All these are direct violations of the H command of God and aro there foro H "Let us walk honestly, as in tho H day; not in- rioting and drunknne6, H not in chambering and wantonness, H not in strife and envying." Rom. 13:' H H ) "Drunkenness, revelings, and such M like" are classed as sins by tho Apos- H tie Paul. H "And tbey which do such things H - shall not inherit the kingdom of God " H Gal. 5: 21 H I The Biblo, as it sots forth the H Gospel of Jesus Christ, declares that H the ueo as ell as the so-called 1 "abuse" of alcohol is a sin; and as a H history of God's dealing with mea it M absolutely prohibits the use of In- H ' toxicants to those who would live M pure, and righteous lives. - H ' Unless you took the passages in toto H i from Geo. G. Brown's book, ou 1 , probably noticed when you wore turn- H ing the leaves of your Bible hunting M , for thb word "wine" the term "Naza- H rite." A Nazarito was a man or Woman H I who took a vow to abstain from jvlne j ' and all intoxicating liquors, somo- H i times for a given length of time, some- j times for-thoir whole lives. H I. "And the lxrd apako unto Moses, i! saying, 'whon either man or woman shall make themselves nazarltos, to separate themselves unto tho Lord; "He shall soparate himself from wlno and strong drink." Ex. 6:2, 3. You evidently did not notice "Rechab" tho name of tho father of .Tonadab, and of the Rechabitcs. You overlooked tho fact that tho decend-ants decend-ants of Rechab were absolutely prohibited pro-hibited by Jonadab to use wlno. "Yo shall drink no wine, neithor yo nor your sons forever." Jer. 36.6. He told them also not to till the land or plant vineyards and therefore there-fore not to manufacture or sell wine. I suppose you happened to miss this paragraph in your eager search for the word "wine," or elso you would not make such, a broad assertion that thoso who believe that the scriptures teach total aostlnence from intoxicants intoxi-cants "must repudiate tho Bible." Another An-other fact which you overlooked Is that theso people continued to live under this prohibition for 300 years. It Is a fact that at tho expiration of this time, when Nebuchadnezzar bo-soiged bo-soiged Jerusalem and forced theso people into the City, that tho "Ivrd of Hosts, the God of" Israel" held them up as an example "to tho men 61 Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem," Jerusa-lem," In these words. "Becauso ye havo obeyed the commandment of Jonadab, your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you, therefore, there-fore, thuB salth the Lord of Hosts, tho God of Israel; Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before mo forever." Jer. 35: 18-19. When tho Lord announced the coming com-ing of John the Baptist, the Forerunner Forerun-ner of tho Christ, He said, "He shall be great in tho sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor sliong drink." Luke 1 15. You do-not seem to lie acquainted jwlth,,the facolihor, Lhatjvuilo much fff the win, jis,od in those days va tintoxJcatlng, the ancients kept much unfermented wine-, and not only pre-; served it in this state, but "regarded It as of a higher fiaxor and finer quality qual-ity than fermented me." With this thought in view, you wllj roadljy sea why-.ou cannot urie the' Sa,vlQ?"s urn ing "of tho whtfer Into wjno as a jubti flcatlon for usjng alcohol todayi,Jfrt, because it is inconsistent with tho pure and holj character of Christ foij him to give something that would tend to destroy thoso whom He came to sae Further, tho master declares that "tho best wine was kept u..til tile last," indicating that It possessed what tho ancients considered "the higher flaor and firmer quality of unfermented un-fermented wlno." You may call those who teach toLil abstinence from alcoholic beverages, "Fanatics." and acouso them of "Gullibility," "Gulli-bility," but until you can produce hotter hot-ter arguments than you have to prove them so, we shall connider that you are lowering yourself to the class of tho slander-monger. Second only In absurdity to thq contention 'that the Bible teaches tho use of alcoholic drinks, and of courfo the need of the Saloon, Is this statement state-ment "For instance, good ethics demands temperance in speech. In order to attain at-tain this undor "Prohibition" tho tongue would have to bo paralyzed, since as long ns man is sinful ho will not practice temperance in speech." Now, Mr. Saloon Advocate, you would be saed from stumbling Into such an Idiotic pitfall If you would only realize that alcoholic bovcrages must bo classed with tho harmful, useless and poisonous things of life; not with the necessary and the useful. Tom-peranco Tom-peranco in speech, tomporance in the uso of food, are virtues; so is tompor-nnce tompor-nnce in tho uso of carbolic acid, nnd alcohol, but thl6 Is attained only by total abstinence. To tell men that a moderate use of alcohol Is beneficial; and to teach young people that "tippling Is no sin" Is to do that which both science and the word of God doclarcs to be false. "Woo to the man by whom offense cometh." Matt 18.7. "It wore bettor for him that a millstone mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and he cast unto the sea, than- that he should offend one of these little ones." Luko 172. "Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach mon so, he shall be called the least In the kingdom of heaven." Matu 5:19. DAVID O. McKAYj |
