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The Ministry of Health and Healing
... you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore
glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
1
Corinthians 6:19, 20
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Intoxicating Drinks
“Wine is a mocker, intoxicating drink arouses brawling,
And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.”
“Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
Who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Those who linger long at the wine,
Those who go in search of mixed wine.
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Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it swirls around smoothly;
At the last it bites like a serpent,
And stings like a viper.”
Proverbs 20:1; 23:29-32.
Never was traced by human hand a more vivid picture of the
debasement and slavery of victims of intoxicating drink. Enthralled,
degraded, even when awakened to a sense of their misery these
victims have no power to break from the snare; they will “seek
another drink.”
Proverbs 23:35
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No argument is needed to show the evil effects of intoxicants on
the drunkard. The bleared, besotted wrecks of humanity—souls for
whom Christ died and over whom angels weep—are everywhere.
They are a blot on our boasted civilization. They are the shame and
curse and peril of every land.
And who can picture the wretchedness, the agony, the despair,
that are hidden in the drunkard’s home? Think of the wife, often
delicately reared, sensitive, cultured, and refined, linked to one
whom drink transforms into a sot or a demon. Think of the children,