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Salvation Army vs. Skeleton Army – History of Teetotalism vs. Alcohol 1851 – 1880

1880s: Early magistrates refused to prosecute mob violence against Salvation Army victims In many places the publicans stirred up violent opposition against the Salvation Army, ‘who, like the silversmiths of the ancient story [Acts 19:23-41], could not help seeing that the hope of their unholy gains was going, if not already gone.’ The Christian, January …

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Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: – even people who ‘seem normal’

Health

There are two main types of alcohol brain damage, both very important, and both very prevalent in Australia. Alcohol damages brain: now unable to learn from mistakes It was only about ten years ago that research started to show that frontal ‘lobe damage’ is not only extremely common in alcoholics, but can also occur in …

Was alcohol why the Salvation Army quit both sacraments? Not exactly.

Salvation Army

Not exactly. It is hardly clear that General Booth supposed even unfermented grape juice would endanger former alcoholics. (But if perchance unfermented wine were not available at times, coloured water would suffice.) Nevertheless, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper were both discontinued, not really due to grape juice being considered dangerous, nor due to alcohol which …

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All or Nothing – Bottle or Christ

Bible

NOT: how much can I get away with, yet perhaps be saved? RATHER: how much can I please the Lord in every way? ‘And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?’ (1 Pet. 4:18; Note context: they previously attended drinking parties 1 …

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Seventh Day Adventist Church vs Alcohol

Adventist, Law 21+

See also: Bible says be sober again and again. From the very inception of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, temperance has been a major focus and the Church has played a key role in struggling against the inroads of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and other drugs. While some Christian denominations have lessened their emphasis on temperance, Seventh-day …

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8 Bogus remedies! Alcohol BAD for what ails you

Fact Check, Health

How ironic! Alcohol worsens the very problems it supposedly helps to cure. I’d never recommend drinking it. The Lord warns: ‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.’ (Proverbs 20:1)

Drinking Alcohol vs Christianity – Catherine Booth, Salvation Army, 1879

Salvation Army, Women

THE subject upon which I have been requested to write a paper is, “The Value of Temperance in connection with Religious Aggressive Effort.” Before entering directly on the subject, I want to make two or three preliminary remarks, and, I. It may be well to explain that we understand religious aggressive effort to be, that …

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‘Away with the DRINK!’ – Catherine Booth, Salvation Army, 1884

Salvation Army, Women

I ought to be able to make a speech with such a text; but it seems, as The General has said, to have taken all the breath out of me.

“Word to a Drunkard” & John Wesley on alcohol

Ban, John Wesley, Methodist, Salvation Army, Wesleyan Church

See also: Bible says be sober again and again. “Word to a Drunkard” by John Wesley 1. Are you a man? God made you a man; but you make yourself a beast. Wherein does a man differ from a beast? Is it not chiefly in reason and understanding? But you throw away what reason you …

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Alcohol & Charles H. Spurgeon: everybody become abstainers (1834-1892)

Baptist

“Next to the preaching of the Gospel, the most necessary thing to be done in England is to induce our people to become abstainers.” – Charles Spurgeon, 1882 (Baptist Church) See also: Southern Baptist Convention – Resolution on Alcohol (2006) See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Charles Spurgeon promoted teetotalism more and …

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