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"WINE is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Prov. 20: 1.
In their natural state, fruit juices are wholesome and nutritious. They are the life-blood of the fruit. The process of fermentation perverts the life, poisons it, and converts into the elements of death.
Whisky in Baby's Milk
Many fathers and mothers do not know this, and hence do not appreciate what is involved when they place the sparkling cup in the way of their sons and daughters. Not long ago a young man and his wife, with two small children, occupied a berth opposite mine in a railway sleeper. The children were fretful from the effects of the journey. The mother poured a large draft of whisky into each of the bottles of milk she had prepared for the babies, and gave them to them.
Soon both of the children had fallen into a deep sleep, and they remained in this drunken stupor for more than twelve hours. Being shocked by the circumstance, I talked with the parents about it. They said the practise was a common one where they lived. It is a custom, in many homes, to "soothe" the children with brandy or whisky or some other deadening drug, to keep them quiet.
Is it not time for every home to be made a wall of defense around the sons and daughters of this generation, to shield them against the inroads of the liquor habit? It is not enough simply to sing songs about temperance, and write about it, and attend temperance rallies. These are all good, and will do good, but the home is the fortress where the father and mother and their children must take their stand.
Mother Did It
"Tell me," said a gentleman to a poor drunkard, when urging him to give up the intoxicating cup, "where it was you took your first step in this intemperate course." "At my father's table," replied the unhappy young man. "The first drop I ever tasted, was handed me by my now broken-hearted mother." These parents were deceived. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
