Have A Joyous Tomorrow
Someone with a penchant for poetic puns once said, "He who goeth forth with a fifth on the Fourth may not go forth on the fifth!" And how true it is...
Anyone who celebrates the holiday with wine, may dine tonight, but die tomorrow. "Wine is a mocker...and he who is fooled thereby is not wise." (Proverbs 20:1)
The Fourth of July celebrates freedom; but strong drink is a celebration of slavery! The liquor industry claims that their product is for men and women of distinction, but how can that be, when alcohol itself is a poison? A raw egg placed in it will turn hard as a rock! When it is used on old doors, it becomes an excellent paint remover!
What right do we have of putting something into our bodies that will harm the temple of the most high God? "But", you say, "alcohol is a portion of many medicines and prescriptions." Then shouldn't we let the physician prescribe it for us? Don't take upon yourself such a task! It would be like going into a druggist's shelves, and telling him you want so many red pills, and several bottles of the green!
Alcohol is not a stimulant but a depressant. It depresses reaction time, so that you only seem to be more exciting. It's like removing inhibitions...like removing the brakes from a car going down hill...exciting, but deadly!
Statistics tellus that 1 person out of every 11 who starts to drink alcoholic beverage, ends up as an alcoholic! In a family of 5, that means that you have 5 chances out of 11, of one of you ending up as a very, very sick person. Why do we play Russian roulette with our bodies when the odds are so dangerous? If I'm not good enough at a party as myself, why should I want to become an artificial "somebody else"? It doesn't make sense!
Children of God, as a result of modern science, should benefit from modern knowledge. The experience of the ages that alcoholic beverage is a spoiler of homes, a brutalizer of otherwise nice people, a sorry answer to pressures of our times, and one of our nation's primary problems should teach us to set an example of sobriety and abstinence!
We've finally found some wisdom about the dangers of tobacco and smoking. Can we begin to sound the alert about another problem of breath-taking size and influence?
Have a happy Fourth, and a Joyous Tomorrow...and let us use wisdom in trying to live our lives to the Glory of God.
Anyone who celebrates the holiday with wine, may dine tonight, but die tomorrow. "Wine is a mocker...and he who is fooled thereby is not wise." (Proverbs 20:1)
The Fourth of July celebrates freedom; but strong drink is a celebration of slavery! The liquor industry claims that their product is for men and women of distinction, but how can that be, when alcohol itself is a poison? A raw egg placed in it will turn hard as a rock! When it is used on old doors, it becomes an excellent paint remover!
What right do we have of putting something into our bodies that will harm the temple of the most high God? "But", you say, "alcohol is a portion of many medicines and prescriptions." Then shouldn't we let the physician prescribe it for us? Don't take upon yourself such a task! It would be like going into a druggist's shelves, and telling him you want so many red pills, and several bottles of the green!
Alcohol is not a stimulant but a depressant. It depresses reaction time, so that you only seem to be more exciting. It's like removing inhibitions...like removing the brakes from a car going down hill...exciting, but deadly!
Statistics tellus that 1 person out of every 11 who starts to drink alcoholic beverage, ends up as an alcoholic! In a family of 5, that means that you have 5 chances out of 11, of one of you ending up as a very, very sick person. Why do we play Russian roulette with our bodies when the odds are so dangerous? If I'm not good enough at a party as myself, why should I want to become an artificial "somebody else"? It doesn't make sense!
Children of God, as a result of modern science, should benefit from modern knowledge. The experience of the ages that alcoholic beverage is a spoiler of homes, a brutalizer of otherwise nice people, a sorry answer to pressures of our times, and one of our nation's primary problems should teach us to set an example of sobriety and abstinence!
We've finally found some wisdom about the dangers of tobacco and smoking. Can we begin to sound the alert about another problem of breath-taking size and influence?
Have a happy Fourth, and a Joyous Tomorrow...and let us use wisdom in trying to live our lives to the Glory of God.
posted by Francis Geo. Guither at 7:49 AM
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