Excerpt from Wine-Drinking and the Scriptures

The Bible writers may err in their manner of conceiv ing. And in their mode of stating, physical facts (as, for example, in the statement that the moon may smite by night Their true inspiration belongs to a higher plane. In the knowledge, however, of spiritual condi tions, whether good or evil, our modern science gcs us no advantage over them. There is one evil state of soul condemned throughout the Bible. It is that state to which we give the name intoxication, Or inebriation, but which, having no term corresponding to it in the Hebrew, is de scribed and most vividly set before us (see Prov. Xxiii.

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