“Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.” Hosea 4:11. “They also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; ... they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.” Isa. 28:7.
Note.—“One of the subtlest effects of this many-sided drug is to produce a craving for itself, while weakening the will that could resist that craving.”—“Alcohol,” by Dr. Williams, page 48.
4. With what sins is drunkenness classed?
“Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like.” Gal. 5:19-21.
5. What are common accompaniments of intemperance?
“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.” Prov. 23:29, 30.
6. How do intoxicants serve one in the end?
“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.” Verses 31, 32.
Notes.—The effects of alcoholic liquors are thus described in the American Prohibition Year Book for 1912, pages 26, 27:—
“On the Individual. Alcoholic liquors, whether fermented, brewed, or distilled, are poisonous, increasing greatly the liability to fatal termination of diseases, weakening and deranging the intellect, polluting the affections, hardening the heart, and corrupting the morals, ‘bequeathing to posterity’ a degeneration of physical and moral character.