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is known to be converted into substances which the body can retain.” -A National Voice. - OCTOBER 27, 1935 THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON SOCIETY I saiah 28 :l-8 Meditation on th e Lesson In the West Indies, we are told, there grows a beautiful and attractive flower. But on being plucked it ceases to be beau-
tiful, withers quickly,-, arid emits a most unpleasant odor. The natives have named this plant “the dead horse,” and the name seems quite appropriate. It is like the pleasures of this world. They appear to be pleasing and bid fair to give satisfac tion ; but, alas! He who plucks them finds them disappointing; the end of these things is death. Of such a nature is alcohol—: and all manner of intemperance. How the individual’s indulgence in al cohol affects society is the point ¡of em phasis for this week’s lesson.
Illustrations for th e Leader 1. T h e S eductiveness of S in
Dr. Crafts, in the Christian Herald, tells of a man who while lying upon the grass noticed a little plant of sundew. Presently a tiny fly alighted upon it, and tasted one of the tempting glands which grew upon the sundew. Suddenly three crimson-tipped, fingerlike hairs bent over and touched its wings with a sticky touch, which held it fast. The fly struggled in vain to get free, but the more .it struggled the more hopelessly it became besmeared. It still, however, protruded its tongue, feasting as it was, being more and more firmly held by other hairs, or tentacles, as they are called. When the captive was en tirely at the mercy of the plant, the edges of the leaf folded inward, and looked like a closed fist. Two hours later the fly was an empty sucked skin, and the leaf was opening for another unwary visitor. So we often do not realize the danger of sin until it holds us bound. II. R easons for T otal A bstinence 1. “Wild oats take something out of the soil of a man’s life that no system of crop rotation can restore.” The harvest of life depends on the sowing of youth. 2 . Lieutenant Bey, of Sweden, made ,a study of the effect of alcohol on the sol diers of his division. He tested them both before and after taking a forty-gram dose of alcoholic beverage, making a chart of the records. It was apparent that accuracy in firing, quickness of action, and endur ance were all decidedly lowered after even such a moderate dose. 3. One glass of beer suffices to induce sleep on the tennis :court. If the player does wake up for a stroke or two, he finds that his eye is just enough wobbly so that he does not hit his strokes cleanly. The pre cision that tennis demands makes neces sary total abstinence—even from beer . . . The person who says one cocktail or one glass of beer does not make any difference in one’s coordination and balance is wrong —at least from a tennis point of view. —H elen W ills M oody . III. Q uestionable I ndulgences “I think a Christian can go anywhere,” said a young woman, who was defending •her continued attendance at some very doubtful place of amusement. “Certainly she can,” rejoined her friend, “but I am reminded of a little incident that happened last summer when I went with a party of friends to explore a coal mine. One of the young women appeared dressed in a dainty white gown. When her friends remonstrated with her, she appealed to the old miner who was to act as guide of the party. “ ‘Can’t I wear a white dress down into the mine?’ she asked petulantly. “ ‘Yes’m,’ returned the old man. ‘There’s nothin’ to keep you from wearin’ a white frock down there, but there’ll be consider able to keep you from wearin’ one back.’” There is nothing to prevent the Chris tian’s wearing his white garments when he seeks the fellowship of that which is un clean, but there is a good deal to prevent his wearing white garments afterward. ■—Bulletin of Downey (Calif.) Presbyte rian Church. IV. T h e Q uestion of F ood V alue Speaking of the food value of alcohol, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says: “None
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