that one should speak at a time and that they all should be seated and
first listen to the questioner.
"Was that wine the same, in kind, that Noah drank, as related in Gen.
9:21?"
"Identical."
"And the same that is used to-day in the commercial world?"
"It is the same as the good wine that is used to-day. There are many
modern adulterations."
The questioner took his seat. A man from London then obtained the
floor. He also held a Bible as he spoke.
"I am a temperance worker in one of the districts of London, and would
like to know whether you conclude by your former assertion concerning
the early Christians that the Bible does not speak against wine
drinking?"
"Not in a single place. How could it do so consistently?" answered the
Devil's expert.
"Will you please turn to Prov. 20:1. 'Wine is a mocker, strong drink
is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.' How do you
harmonize this passage with what you have just asserted?" The man from
London sat down.
"Quite an easy task for one who has given honest study to the question,"
said Mr. Wine Expert. "Wine is a mocker. Just as wisdom mocks at the
calamity of those who reject it in Prov. 1:26. So, wine, personified
in a similar manner, mocks at the folly of those who refuse it.
(Applause.) Strong drink is raging. Just as in Jonah 1:15, the sea was
raging in protest against Jonah because he refused to preach the truth
to the people. So in this passage, 'strong drink is raging,' because
so many church-members and ministers refuse to preach the real truth
to the people on the subject of strong drink. (Prolonged applause.)
If there were as much said against me falsely, as has been spoken
against strong drink, I would not only rage, but would go raging and
foaming over this stage in protest. (Tremendous applause and shouting
from the people of the world.) I tell you more, my friends, strong
drink will keep on raging as long as old Voices and 'The New Voice'
of cranks and idiots are heard to squeak out their childish nonsense
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