‘Away with the DRINK!’ – Catherine Booth, Salvation Army, 1884
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
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 …
Alcohol & Charles H. Spurgeon: everybody become abstainers (1834-1892)
“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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שֵׁכָר Deut. 14:26 Shekhar – meaning sweet drink or strong drink in Bible? (Hebrew meaning of shekhar)
Deuteronomy 14:26 simply refers to wine and fruit-cider (yayin and shekhar) at a feast. The Hebrew text does not specify ‘hard’ cider. Hard cider recieves no specific endorsement. “wine, and cider” (Deut. 14:26, Wycliffe’s Bible With Modern Spelling) See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Grape juice already called yayin (wine) in the …
Don Bradman: I Don’t Drink
Interviewer: “Mr Bradman, you must have a wonderful physique to be capable of endurance required in your amazing world’s record.” Don Bradman: “Well, I don’t think so. I don’t think my physique is any different to anybody else’s. I think one of the main reasons why I am able to carry on so long is …
EVEN ONE DRINK risks the health of an unborn baby – American Academy of Pediatrics & NOFAS
‘Even One Drink’ ‘There is no safe level of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Even one drink risks the health of an unborn baby.’ ‘Pregnant? Don’t Drink. Period.’ American Academy of Pediatrics, 2004, adapted from materials provided by the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, http://www.aap.org/advocacy/chm98fet.htm
Fathers-to-be stop using alcohol AT LEAST THREE MONTHS BEFORE
‘The drugs in a man’s system may lead to lower birth weight, birth defects or serious illnesses for the child after birth.’ ‘Men are advised to stop using alcohol and other drugs at least three months before attempting fertilization.’ Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, 1999, ‘Paternal Contribution to Birth Defects’, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome …
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How George Foreman Quit Drinking
George Foreman says: how I quit drinking – former heavyweight boxing champion On my nineteenth birthday, I got so drunk that I couldn’t remember what happened that night. The next day, I ran into my friend who had been badly beaten up. He had a swollen eye and other bruises. I asked what happened. “Don’t …
I am not half legalistic enough – John Wesley
Never talk against ‘legalism’: call it tenderness of conscience Legality [Legalism], with most who use that term, really means tenderness of conscience. There is no propriety in the word if one would take it for seeking justification by works. Considering, therefore, how hard it is to fix the meaning of that odd term, and how …
Phoebe Palmer: Alcohol ‘This evil in the church’
This evil in the Church and the world is the stumbling-block of iniquity over which thousands of professors are falling away from God, and tens of thousands of the masses are being plunged into endless perdition. … When a man that was well known as among the most successful in promoting the interests of the …
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