The New Christianity: An Appeal to the Clergy and to All Men in Behalf of Its Life of Charity

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1888 - Всего страниц: 511

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Стр. 96 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Стр. 95 - O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Стр. 107 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Стр. 46 - God breathed into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul...
Стр. 16 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Стр. 26 - The places of judicature which I have long held in this kingdom, have given me opportunity to observe the original cause of most of the enormities that have been committed for the space of near twenty years ; and by a due observation I have found, that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries...
Стр. 107 - I admire those who desire no other beverage than water, avoiding wine as they do fire. Hence arise irregular desires and licentious conduct. The circulation is hastened. The body inflames the soul.
Стр. 31 - For man cannot be conjoined to the Lord unless he be spiritual, nor can he be spiritual unless he be rational, nor can he be rational unless his body is in a sound state.
Стр. 95 - I never suffer ardent spirits in my house, thinking them evil spirits ; and if the poor could witness the white livers, the dropsies, the shattered nervous systems, which I have seen as the consequences of drinking, they would be aware that spirits and poisons are synonymous terms.'* Another says very candidly : — ' If an end were put to * Sir Astley Cooper.
Стр. 93 - ... generals only pretended to drink ; and then attacking their army while their officers were intoxicated. This unworthy act led the queen-mother to remonstrate with Cyrus to this effect : ' When you yourself are overcome with wine, what follies do you not commit ! By penetrating your bodies it makes your language more insulting. By this poison you have conquered my son ; and not by your skill or your bravery.

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