Researchers from Canada, USA, and Australia have together produced a meta-analysis of 54 published studies, regarding drinking, and death from all causes and from coronary heart disease (CHD). The report found that many of the previous prospective studies have failed to distinguish between former drinkers and persons who never were drinkers. This systematic error was …
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See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Phineas F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene, promoted Christian holiness and rejected alcohol. Phineas F. Bresee’s first Manual (1898) for Nazarenes in Western USA says: “Holy Scriptures and human experience alike condemn the use, as a beverage, of alcoholic drinks.” A.M. Hills was …
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The reasons for this are two-fold. Alcohol is a mind-altering, mood-changing drug, a central nervous system depressant and intoxicant. Alcohol can produce harmful effects such as impairment of judgment, reason, insight, memory, conscience, speech, hearing, vision, and muscular co-ordination even in small amounts. The ever-increasing problems which result from its consumption. Those related to alcohol …
Salvation Army refrains from Social Drinking (1990 statement) Read More »
‘Well look at them and look at us. I’m having a go at what they have got.’ —Arthur Stace “Mr. Eternity” Alcoholic Arthur Stace repented when he saw how Christians at St. Barnabas Church were NOT like him. The church’s Anglican rector, RBS Hammond, was a total prohibitionist, and Arthur was a drinker of methylated …
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See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Bernard Tolomeo (1272-1348) Tolomeo founded the Olivetan order of Benedictine monks. A late critic asserts: ‘They were also fanatical total abstainers … vineyards were rooted up and the wine-presses and vessels destroyed.’ Olivetans, Catholic Encyclopedia. Benedict himself (480-543) had noted that in earlier times it was …
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Caution with the vague term ‘wine’ in communion service A minister today needs caution when using unfermented grape juice and simply calling it ‘wine’ during a communion service. Participants may become confused, unless it is specifically stated that it is not the fermented type. They may …
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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 …
Salvation Army vs. Skeleton Army – History of Teetotalism vs. Alcohol 1851 – 1880 Read More »
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 …
Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: – even people who ‘seem normal’ Read More »
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 …
Was alcohol why the Salvation Army quit both sacraments? Not exactly. Read More »
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 …