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Merchants —who get much o f the $2,000,000,000 formerly spent in drink and who have thousands o f buyers where they used to have hundreds. Everybody’s wife*- who shares in all this increased prosperity and rejoices in all it means to her family. Probably she has one o f the 612,000 washing machines, and one of the 1,000,000 vacuum cleaners, or some of the $900,000,000 worth o f fur niture which has been sold each year since 1924. Everybody’s family —there is one pas senger automobile to every one and a quarter families, and one radio set to every five homes in our country. Colleges have doubled their attendance in a few years, and schools o f every kind are full to overflowing. This splendid condition the Committee does not claim is due solely to prohibi tion, but it states that leading financiers and economists attribute to the Eighteenth Amendment a “very large share” of our present prosperity.—- Christian Advocate. I am a total abstainer; because I have always felt that I had better use o f my brains.— Thos. A. Edison. The common conception of brotherhood, that is, that men are akin and that God is the Father of all mankind, is not the teaching o f God’s Word. True brother hood, as the Bible teaches, can only be realized through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son, who on Calvary became “ a propitiation for our sins.” God is the Father only of those who accept His Son as their Saviour. Study and have read at the meeting the following Scriptures: John 1:12; 8:19-44; 3:1-21; Lk. 16:8; Eph. 1:5; 2:2, 3; Gal. 3 :26; 1 John 3 :l-3 ; Heb. 2:13; Gal. 4 :4-7; Tit. 3 :7; Rom. 8:17. These passages teach that there are two main divisions or fami lies in the world, the children o f God and the children o f Satan. It is God’s purpose in this age to “gather out a people for his name,” that is, to increase membership in the family of the redeemed. In this blessed work He calls His children to share. Believers are responsible for getting the message o f salvation to their fellow men. * * * S ide L ights Bitter feeling toward any human being means defeat in every part o f our life. We cannot be right with God while we are wrong with a fellow man; only the November 9, 1930 What'Does Brotherhood Mean? Matt. 23:8; 1 John 3:19 (Armistice Day) T houghts on the T opic
November 2, 1930 Why Support the Eighteenth Amendment? How? Prov. 20:1; 23:29-32 ' (Consecration Meeting) T houghts on the T opic
tion o f our 120,000,000 people are not twenty-one years o f age, but I should think the opinion o f many of the younger generation on so simple a proposition as legalizing the manufacture and sale of booze would be worth more in shaping the future trend of law and morals o f the country than the opinions o f many of the older ones who are set in their ways. Yet the vast younger generation who would have to supply the saloon-fodder :of the future were not consulted.” * Ht * S ide L ights Who Benefits by Prohibition? ■ The following answers to the question were compiled by the Buffalo Citizens’ Committee of 5,000 for Enforcement: Wage earners —whose wages were $8,000,- 000,000 more in 1926 than in 1918, which is an increase of 25 per cent, while living costs are reduced 18 per cent since 1920. Employers —who benefit by increased production and a reduced labor turnover, by sober workmen, fewer.,accidents, and no more “blue Mondays.” Farmers— who buy three times as much farm machinery and who sell 45 per cent more milk than in 1920, and who rarely have a drunken farm hand. Bunkers —twenty-three million new de posited since 1920 have increased deposits in the savings banks by $9,000,000,000, an increase of 60 per cent. Insurance me»—-who have sold $51,000,- 000,000 of new insurance since 1920, which is a 130 per cent increase. Sixty million persons now hold life insurance. Real estate men —who sold an average o f 741 new homes every day last year and who now find rents and payments easier to collect. Manufacturers —manufactured products in 1925 and 1926 reached $62,000,000,000 in value, which is more than the peak of after war-time production.
The Scriptures selected describe the evils o f strong drink. The sparkling wine promises exhilaration and joy, but it is a bitter poison, likened to the bite of a ser pent. Instead of gladness it brings woe and sorrow. It destroys mind and body. It perverts: the whole moral nature. It creates an abnormal appetite which makes the drunkard ‘‘seek it yet again.” The drink traffic has led and is leading many millions to eternal destruction. Apart from every other consideration, the Word of God settles it that a" Christian must take his stand against anything which is so destructive to his fellow man. Prohibition in the United States, made effective by the Eighteenth Amendment, is a subject discussed at home and abroad. It demands the attention o f legislators, claims prominent space in newspapers, affects business enterprises, and touches every community in the country. In for eign lands it is often suggested as a pos sible solution to various problems. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president o f the Na tional W.C.T.U., in a speech on the sub ject o f prohibition, said: “ Prohibition is a good law and we aim to secure willing obedience thereto. It has made the liquor traffic an outlaw. It has closed the saloon and no one wants it opened. It has changed the habits o f many people whp count obedience to their coun try’s laws an obligation. It has made a big contribution to the prosperity of our country and that prosperity will increase with greater observance of the law. It has added to public safety, for the auto mobile traffic situation would be unsolv- able with the open temptation to drink everywhere. It has contributed to the good conduct and composite character of the American people through increased so briety. Prohibition is the law, and the problem we are called to solve is how to secure greater and more willing obe dience and better enforcement of the law.” In the opinion of Henry Ford, one of America’s keenest business men, the na tion-wide straw vote on enforcement, modification or repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment recently taken by the Literary Digest “has turned out to be inconclu sive.” He is quoted as saying : “When 20,000,000 blank ballots were mailed to citizens, it meant that only one- sixth of the people had a chance to vote. There are that many women in the coun try and the women are for prohibition. There is also the fact that a large propor
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