WINE OR WATER?

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 22, 1881

WE have not seen the question of wine or water drinking more forcibly put than it is in the article of Dr. Trumbull, which we copy in this number of the SIGNS. Of all the ridiculous excuses for gratifying one's appetite for liquor, that of impure water is about the weakest. The Doctor's arguments will apply equally well to tea and coffee. Men will talk about impure water, and evils arising from its use, and will then add to this same water a poison, which even if it were pure, is worse than any poisonous property which the water may possess, and drink the whole with a hearty relish. Whatever extravagances this generation may be addicted to, the jewel consistency does not materially swell the list.