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184 <strong>ISLAM</strong> VERSUS CHRISTIANITY<br />
alcoholic liquor and yet be a believer in the Bible ?<br />
Take a little wine for thy stomach's sake" is familar<br />
to all. The Marriage feast at Cana in Galilee, when,<br />
according to the Bible, Jesus crated wine, and such<br />
wine that the Governor of the Feast reproached him<br />
for not bringing this splendid wine earlier. Then we<br />
have the rite of communion when every believer<br />
drinks wine handed to him by the priest. This make<br />
us agree with Canon Masterman who said :<br />
" It is<br />
impossible for a Christian to be teetotaller, the only<br />
religion which forbids drink is the Muhammadiam."<br />
Regarding the excessive harmful practice of drinking<br />
among men and women of the Christian world<br />
a few words should be said. This appeared in an<br />
English paper * : "There are more women drunkards<br />
to-day than there were 25 years ago" said the<br />
Bishop of London on April 11, at the great meeting<br />
of the London Diocesan Branch of the Church of<br />
England Temperance Society, held in Exeter Hall.<br />
More than one speaker gave proof of the Bishop's<br />
statement from personal experience among inebriates<br />
and Mrs. Turner, wife of the Bishop of Islington<br />
declared that the vice was on the increase, even<br />
among women who belong to comfortable and wellto-do<br />
homes." In the pages of another respectable<br />
and high class journal, Lady Guendoben Ramsden<br />
wrote : Women drink far more than they did, not only<br />
wine but spirits andliquers"t In 1903 the Express<br />
The Englishman.<br />
f The Nineteenth Century, 1902.
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