2028.-Drinking Cider by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

2028.—Drinking Cider.

By Editor

Is cider unfermented, or is it wholesome drink which can be used without sin? Y.

The juice of good, wholesome apples direct from the press is not fermented. Such drink could not be considered intoxicating. Fermentation has not yet begun in it, but cider does not have to wait very long before fermentation does begin. In others words, before it begins to get "hard." And "hard" cider is certainly intoxicating, and hard-cider drunkards are about the worst and most selfish class of drunkards there are. The drinking of cider which has become hard in any way will certainly have a tendency to lead right on to the drinking of stronger intoxicants. Measured by 1 Cor. 10:31 surely it would seem that a Christian ought to discard the drinking of such beverages.