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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10742, 13 November 1928, Page 6

SPECIAL ADVERT iSEMEMTS, sliall bring unto tile 'Lord, shall be made with leaven;. for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire.” It is amusing' to see- liow my Protestant friends of the Prohibition movement, who generally have a detestation of all things' Catholic, will jump from the teaching of their own Bible to that of the Catholic, when it suite their prohibition purpose so to do. A thing that I have foolishly and mistakenly regretted all along, was that my opponents would prevent me from making use of the Catholic Bible in my arguments against their prohibition fallacies. Therefore/-! sent, forth my contentions against them, with Scripture from that Book which they themselves accept ae the Word of God.- But as I'have been mistaken in niy belief in that connection, and as I now know they are willing to accept the teaching of the BilJe of the Catholic Church, I am willing, heartily willing, to give it to them I If they accept its teaching m one drecUon. to be consistent, they must accept it in another. Therefore, give your attention, and see what the Catholic Bible, by which my Prohibition friends have intimated they were prepared to be guided, lias to say regarding the use of alcoholic beverages: “How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught; and in sleeping thou shall not be uneasy with it; and thou slialfc feel no pain. AVateliing arid clioler and gripes are with an intemperate man. Sound and wholesome sleep with a moderate np. He shall sleep till morning afid his soul shall be delighted with Juft.” (Eeclesiasticus XXXI—22, 24). f ./‘Wine taken with sobriety is equal (life to men, if thou drink it moderately thou shall be softer.” (Eecles. fXXX 1.—32). “Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk.” (Eecles. XNXT—3S). drunken with moderation is .►{’lie tiov of the soitl and the heart. -T) BE i t DP INKING IS HEALTH TO SS#UL AND BODY.” (Eccles. ‘ -36, 37). drunken with EXCESS is litteWess of the soul.” (Eccles. iXXI—39). “Rebuke not thy neighbor in a lanquet of wine and despise him not n his mirth.” (Eccles. XXXI.—4I). There are other texts in the Catlioic Bible of a similar sense and intension ; and now that I know my adversaries are willing to allow the >ublic to be guided bv its teaching, 1 null in the fulness of time, make ill use of it in countering the activities of the Prohilliticaiists. Mr. Milner you say that fermentasymbolised corruption, and “it „ Jbarcaly honest in view of this at# to take the specific words of kiupture for NEW AND SWEET JNE, and substitute the modern I'd inapplicable term alcoholic [quor.” You hereby moan to imply hat new w-ine and sweet wine were ot alcoholic and, therefore, nonatoxicating. This is a favorite proibition sophistication which has trafghtffut denial from the Bible tself. I have already pointed out that ‘sweat wine” was Scripturally provn to make men drunk. In regard o the “new wine,” the cherished beef of our anti-liquor friends that it j not intoxicating, is Biblically defied, as can be seen bY reference to losea IV—ll. Joel I—s, and Acts :—l2, 15- We see by reference to hose texts that if the mew wine were •s harmless as our fjfemls proclaim t to be. it vet possessed a potency ufficient to “take a#y the heart.” t is strange in regyl totHs nonutoxicating heveragasthatrtho Bible hould tell the “(jMfinkards” they ould “howljf andfweep” when it-.-as “out tm from Stheir mouths.” Itraime it .uf. to® ® the new wine rerdif^not/rfafcohqtfc fell at when the loijf Gho#t fcscehdeji upon the apos'dslandjth|y speak with ‘otter people, otf uiidlrstfinding. should mock and ayf “TpESffiiMEN APE FULL OF iMWmVJNW/’ and that Peter in n-pt-ejl should rise' up and assert men are NOT DRUNKye suppose.” I await with Merest your - explanation, Mr. Milter, as to the nature of non-trftoxi-ating properties of the hat would “take away th#'heart.’ ml for which the ‘ ‘drunkards” could howl” and it was ‘out off from their namiths.” In the xatin Vulgate, whjfth I am pleased o learn you to accept ,s authoritatijar on tips Question, here is further evidence of the alcoiolic properties contained in the ‘NEWjraNE.” Yoin#av, Sir, that mv citation of advice to Timothy was a dlngful use of Scripture. This 1 phaticaliy deny. That which Paid ,v was good for Timothy is _ good ■ others as well: though it is ad:e that is not relished by the Prolitionists. You. sav I am not warlted in assuming that the wine rcumended by tlie a|>ostlo was fernited. I have as much warrant, in assuming that it was fermen1. as you have for your assumption it it was the opposite, fou sav I have lost sight of the ; total' abstinent bodies among Jews and the early Christians, lave not lost sight of anything of j sort; but that of which you have t sight is that THERE IS A DLSNOTION BEfPAVEEIN VOLUNPY ABSTINENCE AND COMJLSORY PROHIBITION. It is m aping with your general methods, misconstrue that which applies to luntary abstinence and. supplant jrewith your own policies, which vocate civil punishments and comisory prohibition. /ou refer me to the Nazarite vow Numbers VL, which you say “ 3i s ry comprehensive.” In regard to 3 purpose for which you quote it, ft i s not as comprehensive as ti might desire. You refer toi a ■> of directions given by the Lord r hen either man or woman shall larate themselves to vow a vow of Nazarite to separate themselves to the Lord.” There is no . arguunt therein which can be . con•ued into support for prohibition. e directions to the Nazarite during i daws of separation- can he seen in ; m . Vl—2, 12 and in eluded therein is stated lie is forbidden during it period to partake of wine or •ong drink, etc. You have omitted state. Sir, that following on are i directions to the Nazarite when 3 days of his separation are fined, and when these have teen oplied with “THE NAZARITE \.Y DRINK WINE.” (Num. VI.

—20.) « Your reference to the Recliabites in Jer. 35 again drives home the fact that you are incapable of appreciating the distinction that lies between WHAT IS VOLUNTARY AND WHAT IS’xCOMPULSQRY. .Were there any civil penalties mentioned, may I ask, iii tlie chapter refening to the itechabites ? Were wines and liquors forbidden to lie in the land. Were they east out of the country so that the ilechabite* could keep their word to Jonadah? They certainly were riot, and the great lesson we learn from Jer. 35, is that a people can be made sober and temperate, WITHOUT THE AID OF PROHIBITORY LAWS.. I arn sorry, Sir, but I almost omitted to answer your statement regardin'l, the words of the Saviour m Mark XVi?-25. You point, out that the text refers to '‘now wine,” and •you say that it ,is therefore wrong to assert that Jesus . of Nazareth used fermented the last supper. I have already drawn attention to the fact that- tho Bible proves “new':,wane” to be intoxicating -and again T say with all respect that its word is oFgreater value to the people than that of H, W.Milner. ton say it is blasphemous to write that