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THE WINE OF CANA. men have well drunk, then that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good wine until now." By the Rev. C. A. Davis, Bradford. He quotes the ordinary practice at similar festivals to point a compliment to the bride|HEN we press upon Christian people groom. Other men, he said, were in the habit who take intoxicating drinks in of bringing out their best wine first, and when moderation the desirability of acting men had "well drunk," then they produced the on the Christian principle of self inferior. In the present instance the bridedenial for others' good, by relinquishing their groom was adopting a different course-he had glass in view of the havoc wrought upon others reserved his choice wine to the last. by drink, they often meet uş by quoting the The president implies that at the present feast miracle at Cana; and in a vague way they the guests had arrived at the stage described in suppose themselves warranted by the Saviour's the words," when men have well drunk.” Now, example in resisting our appeal. if the wine which had been circulated at the The example of our Lord is of supreme feast had been intoxicating wine, the guests authority; and we ought, therefore, to endeavour must by this time, when they had “well drunk to see clearly and definitely what it was that He of it,” have become intoxicated. To drink freely did at Cana. No Christian could for one moment of intoxicating wine produces intoxication. We entertain the idea that Jesus countenanced must therefore accept the conclusion that intoxidrunkenness; but the notion that His example cation occurred at a feast at which Jesus and is against the practice of abstinence from intoxi His disciples were present, and thai Jesus made cating drinks for the sake of others who are 120 gallons more of intoxicating wine for guests endangered by them may leave an impression who were already more or less inebriated by of uneasiness and uncertainty in the minds of drink; a conclusion which carries in its hand those who, from Christian motives, adopt that its own refutation. practice, and may give a kind of half warrant The other conclusion, therefore, survives, that to Christian moderate drinkers in resisting the the wine in use at the feast was non-intoxicatappeal for self-denial, which yet they cannot but ing, and that the wine miraculously produced feel is cogent and entirely Scriptural. by the Lord was of a similar character, though It is desirable to clear up this matter one of better quality. This conclusion reaches way or the other. Let us have definiteness and farther, and throws light on the kind of wine clearness above all things. generally used at the time in Palestine. It was The question hinges upon the kind of wine a pleasant and refreshing but non-intoxicating that our Lord produced in the “ waterpots of beverage. Any one may see by comparing the stone." Did He make 120 gallons of intoxicati Gospels with Paul's Epistles, that while among ing wine for the guests at the feast? We pre the heathen nations, among whom Paul sume that our friends would answer, “ Yes," travelled and preached, drunkenness was a Otherwise the example is nothing to their glaring vice, Palestine was comparatively free purpose. from it. Paul is obliged constantly to rebuke The wine Jesus made was no doubt the same it. The allusions to it in the Gospels are few. in kind with that which had been used at the No wonder, if, as is incidentally shown by the feast, only better in quality. What was this feast at Cana, the wine commonly used by the wine ? people of Palestine was non-intoxicating. The only information we have to guide us to When, therefore, we appeal to Christian its character is furnished by the speech of the people to give up intoxicating drinks on account ruler" or president of the feast. When he of their wide-spread baneful influence on others, had tasted the water that was made wine he their reply, that our Lord made a non-intoxicating said to the bridegroom, “ Every man at the drink for a company of guests .at a marriage beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when feast, is nothing to the purpose. A BAPTIST TEETOTAL CENTENARIAN. know a young relation of mine who has made this one of his chosen rules : “ Cold water warms, and hot water cools.” That is true of A N Friday, February 6th, Benjamin alcohol, for it always makes a man colder Freeman, living in one of Bartholo afterwards. So, if a healthy man drinks cold AUS mew's Almshouses, Newbury, attained water, he will be the warmer for it. So, if you to his one hundredth birthday. Mr. Freeman, take hot things like alcohol, you will be more who has been a member of the Newbury Bap-| likely to catch colds, fevers, and cholera, and tist Church for 64 years, and is a member of everything else. So you will get health by the Newbury Branch of the Baptist Total abstaining.-The late Hon, and Rev. B. W. Noel. Abstinence Association, and wears the blue ribbon, is by no means an invalid, but a hale, hearty looking old gentleman, of a florid coun MENTONE. tenance, cheerful temper, and wonderful vivacity of spirit. His eyesight has latterly failed him, but up to a month ago he was able SUR readers will doubtless have their to read his Bible, which with him was the interest increased in the picture of Book, being indeed almost his sole literature. Mentone which we are glad to give His memory is still good, and he delights now them in this issue, by the remembrance in repeating whole Psalms and many other that it has for some years been the health resort passages of Scripture and hymns of our highly honoured brother, the Rev. C. H. He has ninety-five children, grandchildren, Spurgeon, who is at the present time taking and great grandchildren living, his eldest son his well-earned rest in this quiet town on the being seventy-one years old. He worked until he shores of the Mediterranean. was ninety-one years of age, up till which time Completely sheltered from the north, northhe does not remember being laid aside for more east, and north-west winds by friendly hills, it is than a fortnight. there, as a writer says, “ that the tourist finds, On his one hundredth birthday he received even in mid-winter, a clime from which sunmany presents, including one from the Mayor beams, soft breezes, and tender flowers are of the borough, and another from the wife of hardly ever known to be absent; and there the Town Clerk. His pleasure reached its beneath the shade of orange and olive trees, he greatest height when the deacons of the Bap can remember, as a nightmare that is past, the tist Church called upon him, and presented him frost and smoky fogs of the English capital." with a purse containing 100 shillings, as the According to the testimony of a recent visitor, gifts of the members of his church, together “the town is a spot where the swallow migrates with an handsomely framed congratulatory | where the lizard basks and sports in the sun all address, tastefully printed in colours. the year round, where the brilliant dragon fly darts before the eye in midwinter, and the spider spins his web every month in the year, ADVANTAGES OF ABSTINENCE. and finds abundant insect food." Speaking of the town, Mr. Spurgeon says “ The mountains seem to fold it in their arms HY should you not abstain? You and clasp it round as a mother embraces her I would save your money by it. If you babe; indeed, the simile may be pushed further: save twopence a day for twenty years, for as the child lies upon the warm bosom of you would have £70, and that is like | love, so does Mentone flourish in the radiated taking it out of the gutter. It is pulling it heat which the limestone rocks pour forth." away from the publican, and you would find Mentone is unrivalled for delightful walks. £70 to be a very good thing when you are and the town being so small, the pedestrian not thirty-four years old. Saving money helps to only finds himself in the country in a few getting more. I heard a gentleman say, who moments, but at every few steps he comes upon employs many working men in Manchester something to excite admiration—a natural “If I can get a man to put £io into the savings grotto in the rocks, a shady grove of olives, and bank, that man's fortune is made.” So if you a clear view of the Mediterranean. can get £70 without doing anything that would May the honoured Pastor of the Church at injure you, but make you better, do so! If I the Metropolitan Tabernacle reap all the benefit thought you would be pale and weak, and not which a climate so charming as Mentone is able to do your work by abstaining, I would capable of affording, and come back to his not advise it; for health is a working man's loving people, and his manifold labours fortune. But I believe you would be stronger, 1 refreshed and strengthened, to win yet greater and would have more colour in your cheeks. I trophies to lay at the Saviour's feet, |