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blindly attempts to increase Its In come by the very thing that syphons off the earnings of the ‘people. It is reported that in 1939, the people of this country spent 750 millions of dollars for new homes. In the same year, in three states alone—New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey—the direct cost of alcoholic drinks was a billion dollars! In the fiscal year of 1940-41, the spending for legal liquor alone is conservatively estimated as between 3% and 4% billion dollars. When to these figures there is added the costs of maintenance of police and law courts, of jails and hospi tals, to say nothing of loss of life and property by accidents caused di rectly through the use of liquor, it seems monumental folly to suppose that there is any value in the liquor traffic. .The Christian will take the Bible’s orders and warnings to heart and refuse to have any part whatever in such traffic. III. T he S piritual C ost (1 Cor. 6:9-11) First, “ drunkards” are among those who shall hot “ inherit the kingdom of God.” So accustomed have people become to the presence of the liquor traffic that e v e n Christian people sometimes look upon it as a neces sary evil, as they call it. But nothing, however widely accepted and con doned, can be necessary when it leads to the soul’s being robbed of eternal life. Second, drunkenness brings one in to association with adulterers, idola ters, and those who cohimit crimes of the most debasing kind. God puts drunkenness alongside all these other fearful things. Third, drunkenness need not con tinue. Thanks be to God, while one may have sunk to the very lowest depths, he need not remain there, as the experience of the Corinthians proved. Simple faith in Jesus Christ is the door into the kingdom, and it is open to all. Walking in obedience to the Word of God, one is freed from the physical, economic, and spiritual evils of liquor. Points and Problems 1. In the Proverbs passage (23:20, 21), the emphasis is upon poverty hs a tremendous cost of drunken ness. Drunkenness brings its victim „ BLACKBOARD LESSON 'KnOUi 4E OOT THAT THE UDRIOHTEOUS SHALL DOT ICHERIT THE KinoDOITI Of Û0D’ • . I rAo a * a r.
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