Appeals to Scripture.
•s> TO THE EDITOR. 8m, — Will yoor oorr-spondent Mr Buxton infnrm your renders where amongst the writings of Paul he finds that mandatory law, flee from temptation. " Blessed is the man that endurelh temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised" — Jama-, chap, i, v. 12. How is he to endure teniptatioQ if he is to flee from it, or dodge It, aa ibe prohibitionists suggest by prohibiting the drink. If it be right to prohibit a thing because of the evD it yields when abase., then everything will have to he prohibited. We shall then always do right bfjoa-S- in that case we could not possibly do wrong, and seeing that we oould not do wrong it is dear we oould claim no merit for doing right. It is easy to quote odd scraps ofScnptur- in support of prohibition as the manner of some is, but I believe that the intelligent and impartial part of yonr readers, who have read our townsman MrG. Bailey's able and exhaustive pamphlet on that question, and who accept tha Scriptures aa being divinely inspired and their rale of life, will have no sympathy for prohibition.— l am, Ac., 8. HODGKINSON. Wilson's Crossing, 27th Sept.
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Southland Times, Issue 15058, 30 September 1901, Page 3
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214Appeals to Scripture. Southland Times, Issue 15058, 30 September 1901, Page 3
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