THE CHRISTIAN’S SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE LIQUOR PROBLEM

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 7, 1 August 1948, Page 7

THE CHRISTIAN’S SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE LIQUOR PROBLEM

We present this summary of 10 ways in which science comes to the aid of the Christian temperance worker. 1. Science does away with the ignorance of which many Christians are guilty. It discourages exaggeration, over-statement and unbalanced opinion. It throttles wild and fantastic schemes. 2. Science analyses the alcohol problem, singling out those areas v here it must call in the man of God for consultation and guidance. 3. Science provides a court of finality, from which there is no appeal; neither law nor human opinion can change the court’s pronouncement of v.hat is intoxicating after science has rendered its just verdict. 4. Science furnishes accuracy of information which, when appearing in the armor of a righteous cause, becomes invincible. 5. Science challenges the Christian to assert his proper reaction to the fact which it reveals, and calls on forces outside of itself to undertake that which it confesses it cannot do. 6. Science provides a means of expression. a new language, whereby one may appeal to the modern man. 7. Science provides a fellowship of like-minded devotees of the truth, who by their agreement resist false theories of tradition, and advocate only the attested facts. 8. Science equips us with the mental

and practical equipment to dr a specific task—it equips personality. 0. Science confirms today what the Christians have always held with respect to the evils of alcohol—it is of no good to the body, internally, which supports the validity of accepted Ghristian standards. 10. Science explores the field of activity and makes the boundaries of definite means of approach—it classifies the objectives of consideration. —The American Issue, June 1947.