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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DRUNKENNESS. ' 'Noah planted a vineyard; and he drank of the wine and was drunken.' G. ne.is ix, 20, 21. s Noah did the best and the worst thing for the ! world. He built an ark against the deluge ot water, but introduced a deluge against which the human race has ever since been trying to build an ark? the deluge of drunkenness. In my text we hear his staggering steps. Shem and Japheth tried to cover up ttie disgrace, but there he is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world, when, to say the least, there was no lack of water. Inebriation, having entered the world, has not retreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from confiscation by invaders, goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. Uriah came to see David, and David got him drunk and paved the way for the despoliation of a house hold. Even the church bishops needed to be charged to be sober and not given to too much wine, and so familiar were people of Bible times with the staggering and falling motion of'the inebriate that, Isaiah, when he comes to describe the final dislocation of worlds, says, The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard. A WORLD WIDE TEMPTATION. Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the world has been tempted to unhealthful stimulants. But theINTEMPERANCE. intoxicants of the olden time were an innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda water as compared with the liquids of modern inebriation, into which a madness and a fury, and a gloom, and a fire, and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Fermentation was always known, but it was not until a thousand years after Christ that distillation was invented. While we must confe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217831642
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217831648
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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