Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Edward Everett Hale preached a very interesting sermon last evening in Appleton Chapel. He took for his text "Whether therefore you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it for the glory...
...Drink to me only with thine eyes...
Society now assumes that if a man is to pose as a preacher in abstinence he at least must be an abstainer himself. Sixty years ago it was the custom to drink free y at meeting of nearly every sort and it was no disgrace for a young man to be seen drunk, yet how different it is at the present time. A man is ashamed of himself if found intoxicated...
Ethically, a man may hold one of three relations to the drink question. He may withdraw from it, may adjust himself to it, or enlist it its service. The first is the manner of selfishness, the second legislation, and the last that of duty. If a man be considered as isolated. atomic, he has but two considerations, namely, his physical welfare, and his general welfare, and no definite course can be laid out for him. But just so soon as he becomes an active member of an organic whole, just so soon does his relation to it, determine his relations...
Legislation treats this question in its social relations. It is often supposed that there is but one right law, which should be enacted no matter what the results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...