• Title Page
• Introduction
• Personal Involvment
• The Question Regarding the Identity of Wine
• Ancient Methods to Preserve Juice
• Ancients Use and Terms
• The Scriptures
• Specific Passages
• Testimony

in 1863. This edition was published under the careful revision of Dr. F.R. Lees, who has added footnotes and five very valuable and critical appendices. It is also accompanied with a scholarly introduction by Professor Tayler Lewis, LL.D., of Union College. The publication of this volume in this country would subserve the cause of temperance.

The Temperance Bible Commentary, by F.R. Lees and D. Burns, published in London, 1868, has been of great service to me. I am happy thus publicly to acknowledge my indebtedness to it for much judicious and critical information. I am happy to learn that it has recently been stereotyped in this country, and is for sale by the National Temperance Society. A copy ought to be in the hands of every temperance man.

Personal Involvment

My interest in the cause of temperance was awakened by the evidence which crowded upon me, as a pastor in the city of New York, of the aboundings of intemperance. The use of alcoholic drinks was then universal. Liquor was sold by the glass at almost every corner. It stood on every sideboard, and was urged upon every visitor. It was spread upon every table, and abounded at all social gatherings. It found a conspicuous place at nearly every funeral. It ruled in every workshop. Many merchants kept it in their counting-rooms, and offered it to their customers who came from the interior to purchase goods. Men in all the learned professions, as well as merchants, mechanics, and laborers, fell by this destroyer. These and other facts so impressed my mind that I determined to make them the subject of a sermon. Accordingly, on the