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referring, when I speak of wine, to the "cup that cheers, but 

 not inebriates," provided always that it is used in moderation, 

 as sensible men and women should use it. I speak of the 

 wine our Savior Himself consecrated and ordained to be used 

 at His holy supper; and we may point to Him with just pride 

 as the most illustrious wine maker, to promote innocent hilar- 

 ty at the wedding of Cana. Our temperance friends certainly 

 forget this, when they claim to be His followers, yet condemn 

 in the same breath the cup which He has anointed to be used 

 to perpetuate His memory on earth. 



But it is not to Him alone that we can refer. St. Paul 

 says to Thimothy, "Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, 

 and for thine oft infirmity." And I could refer them to many 

 more passages in holy writ to show how fallacious their theory 

 that the scriptures forbid its use. Luther, the very type of 

 vigorous and independent manhood, the great reformer of the 

 church, says, "Who loves not wine, women and song, remains 

 a fool his whole life long." This offers some excuse for those 

 who forget all justice and right when they try to deprive all 

 of its use because a few abuse it. Surely, Luther did not go 

 down to a drunkard's grave, nor was he ever accused of drunk- 

 eness; and I know of not one of the eminent reformers who 

 interdicted the use of wine, as these would-be "latter day 

 Saints" do. 



" To the pure all things are pure," and he who uses wine in 

 moderation, good, pure wine, such as I try to show my 

 readers how to make and handle, will certainly have too great 

 a respect for one of the choicest gifts of Heaven to mankind 

 to abuse it. We have brought up a family of six, four girls 

 and two boys, all grown now; they have had free access to 

 wine from babies up, and drink it daily ; but none of them 

 have ever shown a disposition to abuse it, although the oldest 

 son has had charge of a cellar for over four years, and is now 

 cellar master over the white wine department of Gov. Stan- 



