ANOTHER "APT QUOTATION."
TO THE EDITOR
. B'T~"-PP c 'A:si:i!?kes out quite'a new. line m the. prohibition-. controversy in his letter of this, morning. 'Please■'allow" me to ca]i his quotation by. another—not"" apocrypha!,"' but from the: recognised sacred canon of Scripture. i^Vorbs of Solomon,', chap, xx, verse 1: Uineis a-mocker, strong drink is. raging:' ai! cl whosoever: is ■ deceived thereby is not wise^.' " And. see.' also chapter xxiii, verse 31----32: 'Look not'th.oiiupon the wine when it :s red, when it giveth its colour in the cup when.it moveth itself aright; at the last it biteth'like a-serpent; arid stihgeth like an adder. ' "Very old-fashioned teaching," as _ Delta ' says. ;but. clearly inculcating- total aosHnence, and, by implication, prohibition as well: and "as sound-and practical as it was two,thousand-years, ago."—l am, etc.,' "' Dunedin. JuneTl6.. /'.'." Sacekdos.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11452, 17 June 1899, Page 6
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131ANOTHER "APT QUOTATION." Otago Daily Times, Issue 11452, 17 June 1899, Page 6
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