• 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
  • Professor George Bush
  • Rev. Dr. E. Nott
  • Professor Moses Stuart
  • Rev. Albert Barnes
  • Rev. Dr. Herrick Johnson

developed by the temperance reformation, in relation to the effects of alcoholic drinks, with the testimony of the most intelligent physicians and eminent chemists, that alcohol contains no nourishment, will neither make blood nor repair the waste of the body, but it is an intruder and a poison; this will secure the firm friendship of many who now stand aloof, and will promote the temporal, spiritual, and eternal happiness of mankind.

Testimony

The following testimony, from five eminent scholars, may fortify the convictions already produced by the facts and reasoning found upon the preceding pages:

Professor George Bush

Professor George Bush—Mr. E.C. Delavan, having been referred to Professor Bush, as a learned Biblical scholar, from whom he might obtain correct information as to Bible temperance, visited him in his library, and stated to him his views on the wine question. With promptness he condemned them, and, referring to a text, he said, “This verse upsets your theory.” “When asked to refer to the original, he did so, and, with amazement, said, “No permission to drink intoxicating wine here. I do not care about wine, and it is very seldom that I taste it, but I have felt until now at liberty to drink, in moderation, from this verse.” Being entreated to make this a subject of special and particular examination, he said he would. At a subsequent visit he thus greeted Mr. Delavan: “You have the whole ground, and, in time, the whole Christian world will be obliged to adopt your views.” At the request of Mr. Delavan, he published his views in the New York Observer (Enquirer, Aug., 1869). This testimony is the more valuable, as it