Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

 

Ulysses Grant Deep in the Heart of Texas General Grant was to be entertained at a banquet in the city of Houston, Texas. All that money could do to make the affair a success was done. The most notable men in the Lone Star State were present. After all were seated, the headwaiter approached the place where Grant was seated and was about to pour out the first glass of wine for the guest of the occasion. Quietly and unostentatiously Grant reached forward and turned his glass down. With the true spirit of Southern chivalry, every Texan present, in the same quiet manner, reached forward and turned his glass down, and for once in the history of banqueting in the Southwest, a famous dinner was served without a drop of alcoholic liquor being drunk.              -H.L. Smith 1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

The Bar A Bar to heaven, a door to hell; Whoever named it, named well. A Bar to manliness and wealth; A door to want and broken health. A Bar to honor, and a good name; A door to grief and sin and shame. A Bar to hope, a bar to prayer; A door to darkness and despair. A Bar to honored useful life; A door to brawling, senseless strife. A Bar to all that's true and brave; A door to every drunkard's grave. A Bar to joys that home imparts; A door to tears and aching hearts. A Bar to heaven, a door to hell; Whoever named it, named it well. Written by a Life convict in Joliet Prison.

Blood Money There died at the age of eighty-five a man who was well-known in London and throughout Great Britain as an apostle of temperance, partly because he gave up a fortune of six million dollars for conscience' sake and for the sake of his fellow man. Frederick F. Charrington was out one evening making a night of it with a group of friends. Strolling down one of London's most notorious streets, a woman, ragged and pale, reeled out, her frail form convulsed with sobs. She was clinging to a ruffian who was trying to shake her loose. "For God's sake," she cried, "give me a copper. I'm hungry, and the children are starving." But the man clenched his fist and struck her to the ground. Young Charrington and his friends rushed in to intervene and protect the woman. After the police had taken the couple away he happened to glance up at the illuminated sign over the saloon door, and there he read in letters of gold his own name - "Drink Charrington beer." "The message," afterward wrote this young man, "came to me then as it had come to the Apostle Paul. Here was the source of my family wealth. Then and there I raised my hands to heaven, that not another penny of that tainted money should come to me, and that henceforth I would devote my life to fighting the drink traffic." -C.E. McCartney Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. Sam Jones on Liquor

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