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Chapter 3—The Intoxicating Effects of Wine and
Cider
Persons may become just as really intoxicated on wine and cider
as on stronger drinks, and the worst kind of inebriation is produced
by these so-called milder drinks. The passions are more perverse;
the transformation of character is greater, more determined, and
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obstinate. A few quarts of cider or sweet wine may awaken a taste
for stronger drinks, and many who have become confirmed drunkards
have thus laid the foundation of the drinking habit.—
The Review
and Herald, March 25, 1884
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A Possible Precursor to Habitual Drunkenness
—A single
glass of wine may open the door of temptation which will lead
to habits of drunkenness.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:578
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Diseased Condition Resulting From Use of Cider
—A ten-
dency to disease of various kinds, as dropsy, liver complaint, trem-
bling nerves, and a determination of blood to the head, results from
the habitual use of sour cider. By its use, many bring upon them-
selves permanent diseases. Some die of consumption or fall under
the power of apoplexy from this cause alone. Some suffer from
dyspepsia. Every vital function refuses to act, and the physicians
tell them that they have liver complaint, when if they would break in
the head of the cider barrel, and never give way to the temptation to
replace it, their abused life forces would recover their vigor.—
The
Review and Herald, March 25, 1884
.
Effects of Wine After the Flood
—The world had become so
corrupt through indulgence of appetite and debased passion in the
days of Noah that God destroyed its inhabitants by the waters of the
Flood. And as men again multiplied upon the earth, the indulgence in
wine to intoxication, perverted the senses, and prepared the way for
excessive meat eating and the strengthening of the animal passions.
Men lifted themselves up against the God of Heaven; and their
faculties and opportunities were devoted to glorifying themselves
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