Show THE occasional GLASS it may well lie Ile fired if it glea temptation in w oilier it is difficult to convince many otherwise excellent people that there is 1 any harm in taking an all occasional glass 0 of f wine or other intoxicating beverage at the table or elsewhere they never drink to excess it la is said and why should they deprive themselves of n harmless indulgence because other men are too weak to control their appetites this is the usual argument but lu III the present situation of things at I 1 least east I 1 it t ia its a cruel selfish unmanly and unchristian argument it lt ia is the old cry in a new form ala ain I 1 say my brothers keeper paul answered this most effectively when be he said if meat make my brother to offend I 1 will eat no flesh while the world there is true manliness in this the tile true christ spirit 1 I will deny myself the apostle might have added even so 80 harmless and so import important aut an article of food as meat if the eating of it shall cause my brother to stumble and fall into sin it is not absolutely essential that I 1 should eat meat to sustain my life there are plenty of other kinds of food good and wholesome to which I 1 may r resort e I 1 will restrict myself to thee these if by so doing I 1 can save a single one of my fellow men from froin a life of ginand sin and shame would that the moderate drinker would apply such logic as this to himself I 1 christian at work |