But temperance is for those who are in health.

There is a text in the Bible about wine making glad the heart of man.

That's a good text, and one to go on.

As often as not texts are like bags, and a man crams all his own rubbish into them, and expects you to take them together.

There are some men, who ought to know better, who actually get out of that text by saying the Bible means unfermented liquor"-- Mr.
Gresley became purple.