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Page 62
... taken by the leading temperance ad- vocates of this country and of Great Britain - namely , that many words are used in the original tongues to express the many kinds of wine used in Bible times ; that the words translated " wine ...
... taken by the leading temperance ad- vocates of this country and of Great Britain - namely , that many words are used in the original tongues to express the many kinds of wine used in Bible times ; that the words translated " wine ...
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... taken in small quantities repeated dai- ly , the individual usually slowly increases in weight , not from increased nutrition , but from retarding the waste and retaining the old atoms longer in the tissues " ( " Verdict of Science ...
... taken in small quantities repeated dai- ly , the individual usually slowly increases in weight , not from increased nutrition , but from retarding the waste and retaining the old atoms longer in the tissues " ( " Verdict of Science ...
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... taken in quantities which are conventionally deemed moderate ” ( Sir Henry Thompson , Tract 113 ) . Rev. Sydney Smith , one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review , says : " Let me state some of the good arising from abstaining from ...
... taken in quantities which are conventionally deemed moderate ” ( Sir Henry Thompson , Tract 113 ) . Rev. Sydney Smith , one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review , says : " Let me state some of the good arising from abstaining from ...
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... taken a solemn promise never again to touch , taste , or handle the accursed stuff - from these comes this testimony : " The pledge has been to us a help ; it was the door to a new and better life . " In a little book which I have not ...
... taken a solemn promise never again to touch , taste , or handle the accursed stuff - from these comes this testimony : " The pledge has been to us a help ; it was the door to a new and better life . " In a little book which I have not ...
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... taken that you can get a bill through the Legislature for prohibition just as easily as you can get an enforcing statute after you have got your constitutional provision . Another great argument for constitutional prohibition is this ...
... taken that you can get a bill through the Legislature for prohibition just as easily as you can get an enforcing statute after you have got your constitutional provision . Another great argument for constitutional prohibition is this ...
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Page 53 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 48 - I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go, at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 72 - And if any State deems the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens and calculated to produce idleness, vice or debauchery, I see nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent it from regulating and restraining the traffic or from prohibiting it altogether if it thinks proper.
Page 49 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before...
Page 108 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 79 - No such right as the one supposed is purchased by the importer, and no injury in any accurate sense is inflicted on him by denying to him the power demanded. He has not purchased, and cannot purchase, from the Government that which it could not ensure to him — a sale independently of the laws and policy of the States.
Page 42 - We find it convenient to use railways. Are they " contrary to revealed religion" ? Jesus never married, neither did most of his apostles. Is marriage, therefore, " contrary to revealed religion " ? Jesus allowed a husband to put away his wife if she had committed adultery, he himself being judge and executioner. We forbid him to do it, and make him submit to jury trial and a judge's decision. Are such divorce laws, therefore, " contrary to revealed religion " ? Jesus said to the person guilty of...
Page 116 - That in view of the alarming prevalence and ill effects of intemperance, with which none are so familiar as members of the medical profession, and which have called forth from eminent...
Page 71 - A license to sell an article, foreign or domestic, as a merchant, or innkeeper or victualler, is a matter of police and of revenue, within the power of a State.
Page 125 - My final conclusion is this, viz. : that, whenever the Scriptures speak of wine as a comfort, a blessing, or a libation to God, and rank it with such articles as corn and oil, they mean — they can mean — only such wine as contained no alcohol that could have a mischievous tendency ; that wherein they denounce it, prohibit it, and connect it with drunkenness and revelling ; they can mean only alcoholic or intoxicating wine.