"In Deut. 7 : 13, God, through Moses, said to his chosen people: 'And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil,' etc., etc. "Just think of it, Woman's Christian Temperance Union people, God has solemnly promised to bless his faithful children with an especially large vintage, a better vintage than that of their unbelieving neighbors! Rather rough on the heretic French and the Infidel Germans! "Deut. 11 : 14: 'That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil.' "Yahweh is determined that the supply of wine shall not fall short. "Deut. 14 : 26: 'And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth; and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household.' "Rev. Mr. Stevenson to the box! Repeat your testimony, please. 'I said that, The education of the children of the republic in temperance principles logically involves the maintenance in those schools of the Bible as the great text book in morals.' "Deut. 15 : 14: 'Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.' "This is said regarding the manumitted Hebrew slave. And so it is a blessing for God to give the fruit of the wine-press to his children? And we are to emulate him? "It seems that God punishes his people by blasting their vineyards, and thus cutting short their supply of wine, as below: "Deut. 28 : 39: 'Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes, for the worms shall eat them.' "Verse 51 of the same chapter tells the people that their cattle and wine and oil shall be taken from them if they disobey God's commands. This is the famous 'cursing chapter' of the Bible, and is just the reading calculated to make a man believe that God was the first pope of Rome. "Deuteronomy is a very good book for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and I suggest that it hold a special meeting to pray for the evidently 'rum'-loving god who wrote it. There is much other matter in it that helps to make it an admirable work for use in the schools. "Judges 9 : 13: 'And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?' "Ah! so it appears that God, the 'original prohibitionist,' according to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union drinks wine, else how could it cheer him?