The Bible Rule of Temperance; Total Abstinence from All Intoxicating Drink (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... tianity advances through the world it opens new channels of commerce; and the demand for any article will regulate the supply. The facilities of intercourse and trade, that obtain with increasing civilization, obviate all objections against the juice of the grape, and the futile, preposterous arguments for the use of water in the celebration of the Lord's Supper, urged by some, from the fact that the gospel and its rites arc designed for universal diffusion in the world. THE CURRENT WINES OF COMMERCE ALCOHOLIC. 3. While the positions above stated will generally be admitted, it is nevertheless undeniable that the current wines of this country and those of commerce abroad possess so large a share of alcohol as to be intoxicating., Brande's analyses--which proved brandy, gin, rum, and whiskey, to contain a little more than one-half of alcohol--detected about one-fourth of this poison in Lissa, Marsala, Port, and Madeira wines; one-fifth in Currant, Sherry, Teneriffe, Lisbon, and Malaga; one-sixth in Claret and Burgundy; one-eighth in Champagne and Frontignac; and, according to Liebig, from ten to twelve per cent. in the German wines, Steinberger, Eudesheimer, Marcobrunner, Geisenbrunner, etc. The man who drinks his quart of Madeira or Port, drinks in so doing a pint of brandy. ADULTERATIONS OF WLNES. It is notorious that before our imported wines leave Europe they are enforced by admixtures of brandy. Pure, unadulterated juice of the grape, in a fermented state, is very rarely to be procured. The must is enforced by alcoholic mixtures; or " body," Dr. L. C. Beck's analyses of several wines In the United States accord, with Brande's. as it is said, must be given to the fermented liquor, by the introduction of alcohol, to prevent the acetic fermentation durin...