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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10741, 12 November 1928, Page 6

SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. MR. KYNE ; VERSUS *' MR. MILNER. SPEAKING in : tho Salvation Army. Citadel on Thursday night, Mr. H. W. Milner dealt with the question raised by Mr. T. S. Kyne as to- whether the Prohibitionists were working out the Divine principle and precept and whether the Drink Traffic could claim Divine Blessing and Sanction.) The speaker stated that the Prohibitionists were not advertising through the newspapers this election on- a large scale as a protest against the v Press perverting its powers and being generally one-sided, also, its failure to publish facts as a guide to public thought toward tho ultimate goal of truth, the only achievement. worth while, Passing reference was made to the tremendous success Prohibition had achieved in the election of Mr. Hoover as President of the United States and to the definite lie direct this was to the false propaganda about the so-called failure and catastrophe of American prohibition. Coming to Mr. Kvne’s asseiticn that Scnpflh-e supported the drink traffic, the speaker said any fool idea could be supported l)V “ little- subtle sleight of hand in < ds l-/een said the Bible advocated suicide in that it said: “Judas ana hanged himself; go thou ana 3o x JlkP ’ wise,” which illustrates how two ts'?® statements, wrongly associated, produce a lie. Texts wrested from their setting could be produced to show that Jehovah made Princes and Governors drunk and man was commanded to make his fellow man drunk. The whole of Mr. Ivyne’s assertion that alcoholic beverages received Divine Blessing was dependent upon his right to substitute and. make this term alcoholic beverage interchangeable in an indiscriminate and irresoonsible manner with wine in the Bible. Mr. Kyno was particularly unfortunate in the effort to make., this term fit in with his 13 Old-Testa-ment quotations, which use word tirosh, the specific word which in the wlio’e thirty eight places where it is used clearly conveys its true significance, namely, sweet wine and also with the generic term Yayin covering many sorts and conditions of wine as referred to by Nehemiah, the majoritv of which were unfermented. Eveai sliekar translated strong drink (which could , not logically be identified with our hard liquors’because they were unknown) which it was rightly asserted were used in the sacrifices and oblations, could onlv he used when uiifermented, as Mr. Kyne wouhl easily see by reading the_ Latin Vu 1 - gate’, the authorised version of the Catholic ChurchJfit- Lev. 2.11. where we read: “Every oblation that _ id made to the Lola shall be made wit-li-nt anything igfiat is fermented. Nothing fermented or of |;|in the sacrifice to essential to know ffimm customs, condiand Jewish writings pd-eOpood and the fact . „ad niany ways of using rflie ranging from fresh squeezed out ijee d#ect into the cun< (such as was Jt Pharaoh’s birthday feast) to he racist efficient method o-f preservng it On fermented. Of the _ seven or ight methods recorded by historians, he most cofnmph used were, bowing own to a thick, consistency and: then Altering when wanted for use anrl reserving after heating to a certain eniperature jA hermetically sealed kins and jptff- Some of the latter lave weet ai# im’fermented hundreds of ears after geing sealed. The ancients veil had nfeans of keeping dusters f grapes fresh and luscious a hunred years'- as related by Josephu.s ’liny and others. Dr. S. W. Isaacs, he eminent Jewish Rabbi, says: ‘The Jews do not in th«r feasts for acred purposes including thei-mar-iage feast, ever use prmented drinks. In ie best wines are p-.-ad urifermented. ..In )t] ' | Pi# ri*u id libations bot they employ i§ fr "a.peifiuied'ftndv il | all&ayg Usiris, n.v "Kind of [e’Holy land [erved sweet fir oblations :e find pubof iltho vine. ,_erme.nted as the sym-riFerment-atio-n is i?; ™ „ iT mbol of corrup--1 ,‘faS injfnafu'ret.'and science ..it; is decaf- Jarid rottenness.” r lii 'oflthil-facfc, to take the. speci‘ortfs ofScripture for new and iaie and substitute- the mofi Man® inaunlicahle term alcoholic ■ and to take md even the juice: of the and quickly unpreserved intoxicating) jan fermentthe Bible ilunwarrar+'' vine Wisdom the removal hen once poi-ass-over prothe. wines, nks or food of any sort in whicli mentation, had set in during the iter, were to he removed from fir homes . and from their land.. Kvne- will find that clearly inated in the Latin Vulgate. [n view of that it is wrong to ’ast that Jesus of Nazareth used mented wine at the Last Supper, our liquor friends have any doubt >ut it, let them read carefully irk 15, 25, where Jesus .said: “I 1 no more drink of the fruit of > vine until I drink it new in the ngdom of God.” It is equally .spheinous to assert that the sh wine made at the marriage ,st- was alcoholic and it shows a nplete ignorance of the Jewish -ting. Josephus tells us that'the ,vs of that day were particularly stem ious and had been for some ) years. > Another outstanding example of ongful use of Scripture was the; jting of Paul’s advice to Timothy, an argument against Prohibition, i fact .being that the latter does t in any wav affect the medicinal j of wine. But it needs to'be rembered that' one total abstainer ul (who said he would neither eat at or drink wine or do anything it would cause his brother to imble) advising another total nbfiner to take a little wine for his imach’s sake, instead of nothing b water, does not warrant the: asnption that it was alcoholic, bexse medical prescription .of that /- favored. iinfermented wine as. a dicine in preference to fermented e Pliny). Our friends seem to ve lost complete sight - of the big :al abstinent bodies among >the ; vs' and the early Christians. The -zarite vow of Num. 6 is verv nprehensive and the Rechabite vement of Jer. 35 is very ilhuntive and the whole trend of-'Jew-! and Christian teaching is for itinence, not moderate- drinking sn. The whole Christian teaching l used upon • separation to God’s rk involving abstinence and when > Angel appeared, as recorded in figes 13 and Luke 1 15, and dejred, the Proh'bition messoge, it ltained .the lesson that, to Hie’’ ;ed for God’s' high purposes comte< lifelong abstinence' was necesy, particularly for- the) full ' fuelling of the Holy Spirit. - ( Jr. Milrier .then ; went on to deal ;li the claim that Prohibition was! fi-Christian,’ pointing Put that the: ristian answer to the (l question, iii I my brother’s keeper” is in ■ affirmative and the prineinle suhibedto by Paul find laid down by ms in the .words', “Love thy neigh- •” and who, tp jJjusirato who our