DR TORRKY’S MISSION.

Evening Star, Issue 11695, 29 September 1902, Page 2

DR TORRKY’S MISSION.

TO Ti?s EDITOB. ! Sir.—Dr Torrey is reported to have said I at one of his meetings : “ The Bible and whisky do not go together.” Now, that Th" B b l e condemns drunkenness is of course ' obvious-, but that it also approves v of the ' moderate use of alcoholic liquor is equally ■ obvious from the following passages “ -Ami the vine said unto them Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man. and go to be promoted over the trees?”—Judges ix., v. 15. ■ And win-=“ that maketh glad the heart of man.”—-Psalm, civ., v. 15 ’’ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto - those that; be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his, misery no more.”—Proverbs xxxi., v. 6 and 7.

I am come into my- garden, my sister, my spouse. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my hooey,hi have drunk my wine with my y ’fet, 0- friends, drink, yea driak O v., V. Id ;. ;> ? A * “Thy silver is become dross, thv wine mixed with water.”—-Isaiah i., v. 22. ‘■"Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”—lsaiah lv., v. 1. “ And when they wanted wine the mother of Jesus saith unto him They have no wine.”—-St. John ii., v. 3. ; - “ Jesus therefore turned water into wine.” “ Drink-no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake'and thine often infirmities.”—St. Paul. 1 I am aware that the Prohibitionists hare a method of wriggling out of the unwelcome significance of those and kindred passages as bearing on their favorite doctrine, but I have yet to hear a satisfactory one. Perhaps Dr Torrey can furnish it. The Jewish people, ’from among whom have arisen some of the brightest stars :u the firmament of humanity, aro not total abstainers. Again, with regard to that hell which revival preachers aro so fond of hurling at their audiences. I think the opinion of educated people at the present day is pretty well summed up in one stanza of Omar Khayyam’s magnificent poem, translated by FfirgeraM:— “ I sent my soul through the Invisible. Some letter of that After-life to spell; And by-and-bye my soul return’d 1o me, And answer’d ‘ I mvself am Heav’n and Hell.”’ ' , ■ —l am, etc., A .Moderate. September 27.