The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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Jacob's prediction of Judah (Gen. xlix. II, I2) as to
"washig) his garments in wine, his eyes shall be red withl
wine, and his teeth white with milk "; so the promise of a
bountiful vintage (Lev. xxvi. 5); so the blessing of the
"corn, the wine, and the oil" (Deut. vii. 13, xi. I4); so the
prospect of drinking " the pure blood of the grape"
(Deut. xxxii. I4); and so numerous passages in the prophets, where the corn and the wine are associated as
natural blessings of great value, and their loss deplored
as a national calamlt3y.
All this is true, and in a footnote' we subjoin references
to all the passages where "wine," and "new wine," and
"sweet wine," are associated with temporal good; but in
doing this we also name the H-ebrew words which are so
rendered in the English translation. What, then, are the
facts patent to every careful reader? (i) When YAYINthe generic term for expressed juice of the grape-is
described as a blessing, it is never represented as having
an intoxicating quality, but as the liquid (in one place, Jer.
* YAix.-Gen xlix. II, z2; Deut. xiv. 26, xxviii. 39; Ps. civ. i5; Prov. ix.
2, 5; Eccl. ix. 7; Cant. v. V, Vii. 9, Viii. 2; Is. Iv. I; Jer. xl. Io-i2, xlviii. 33
Amos ix. 4; Micall vi. 15; Zeph. i. 13: Hag. ii. i1; Zech. x. 7.
Tirosi.-Gen. xxvii. 28,,7; Num. xviii. I2; Deut. vii I3, Xi. I4, xii. 17,
xiv. 23, XViiI. 4, xxvi ii. 5x, xxxiii 28; Judges ix. 13; 2 Kings xviii. 32; 2. Chron.
xxxi. 5, xxxii. 28; Neh. v. II, x. 37, 39. xiii. 5, 12; PS. iv. 7; Prov. iii. IO; Is.
xxiv. 7, x-Lvi. 1 7, lxii. 8, lxv. 8; Jer. xxxi. I2; Hos. ii. 8, 9, 22, iv. II, Vii. I4,
iX. 2: Joel i.:O, ii. 19, 24; MIicah vi. -'5; Ha,. i. I: Zech. ix. 17.
SOVEH.- IS. I. 22; Hos. ~. Iv.
SPEu AR[N.. -IsS. Xs xv. 6.
KOE.iER.-Deut. xxxii. 4; Is. xxvii. 2.
Aiisis.-Cant. viii. 2; Joel i. 5, iii. 8S; Amos ix. I3.
ASIIISHAH.-2 Saml. Vi.:9; Cant. ii. 5; Hosea iii..
SI; i,:A,.-Deut. xiv. 26.
The albove are no)t references to all the texts in whichl the se-veral Ilebrew
terms are translated "wine" or " stronf drink," but they comprise all the
principal passages in which an idea of utility is connected with the substances
indicated by the original wvords. For a complete list of all the passages, and
elucidation of th.em1, the reader is referred to the' Temperance 13ible Commentary-."
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