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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13527, 8 November 1911, Page 4

comments. UHPERMESTED WINE. The Ministers of the Gospel, who arc never weary of preaching Prohibitior sermons, would have people believe, ir order to reconcile their teaching with that of Christ, that the Bible wines wore Unfermented. If these Reverend gentle men would study their Bibles and It 5 aside all prejudice, they would at om see that this theory Is quite untenible The words “drunk”, “drunkard," "drunkards,” “drunken,” and “drunken' ness” are found in sixty eight places in Holy Writ. There-are also numerous references to wine and its effects which would be absolutely devoid of sense or meaning if the wine was unfermented. What is unfermented wine, and how long would it be likely to remain unfermented In a hot climate? In Charles Dickens' “Old Curiosity Shop” it is recorded that the poor little Marchioness used to col* lect “pieces of orange peel to put into cold water, and make believe it was wine,” but Dickens had more sense than to describe the poor little waif as getting drunk on this festive beverage. No! Reverend and pious preachers; you must adopt some more rational line of argument If you wish to bring your sermons: into harmony with the example and teaching of the Master you profess to serve; LOGIC. NO DRINK NO DRUNKENNESS. NO NICE FOOD NO GLUTTONY. NO FOOD AT ALL NO DISEASE. NO PAPER ' NO FORGERY. NO PROPERTY NO THEFT. NO SPEECH NO BAD LANGUAGE. NO MONEY NO GAMBLING. NO PRINTING NO IMMORAL NOVELS. NO WOWSERS NO HYPOCRISY. NO LIBERTY NO-LICENSE. NO SIN NO SALVATION. RE,y. DR. HOWARD CROSBY.—"Prohibition throws wide open the flood .. legates of vice. An inoperative law IS' at ail. There is the unyloet which yfeels its temporary ftfeedom-and is prepared to make the {s, prohibition . Inoperative? i VI |! T;jie'Statistios show that It Is. There is ho Prohibition in lylillng. There never’ A was in any -State which adopted It. t|he main effects of prohibition where tried are # poor liquor; large prices for it, an increase of the inmates of lunatic asylums, poverty for the farmer and a system of semi-thievery, and do- - ' 'liberate falsehood on the part of - ~ the inhabitants and ■ transients, which unfits them for prayer and churoh-geing.”

MR. CARSON’S CONCLUSIONS—"Evidence points to the conclusion that under 'No-license' there is less open drunkenness than under license; that there are fewer oases of disorderly conduct in the police courts; and that the removal of the open means of temptation has tended to wean some men from the old hafcit of tippling. On'the other hand, evidence is as conclusive that the aggregate quantity of liquor consumed in New Zealand has been unaffected either by the closing of all licensed houses in six big districts or by the great wave of No-license feeling which has been sweeping through the country; that the drink bi! of New Zealand has steadily advanced from £2 19s 8d per capita in 1896 to £3 15s lOd per capita in 1907; that much drinking still goes on in No-iicenso districts; that a closed bar is taking the place of the open bar; that there is more secret drinking and more drinking in the homes of the people; that where a licensed district is contiguous to a No-license district much drinking is precipitated from the latter into the former; that as regards the majority of No-license towns there has been no diminution of serious crime.” REV. DR. FRIERSON. To the question, "Have Ministers ot the Gospel and their Churches any right to, advocate Prohibition?” the Rev. Dr. D. F, Frierson says, in the Christian Observer: "When ha (the minister) preaches prohibition he forsakes his legitimate weapons and ruins his own cause. He destroys that perfectly free option to which he must make his appeal. He puts himself and his ministry in the absurd position of appealing to the moral" nature at the moment that he is advocating compulsion. Why should he persuade at all if ho can get a law to compel?” Vote For Tour Liberty and Strike out the Bottom Line on BOTH Ballot Papers.