Lesson 14 · September 30, 1893

A Temperance Lesson

Memory Verse.—"Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." .

1.For what was man created? .
2.What is this glory elsewhere called? .
3.What kind of pleasure is the pleasure of God? .
4.Did man continue to live for God's glory? .
5.Is it the pleasure of the Lord that man should be afflicted and die prematurely? .
6.What have been the moral results of intemperance? .
7.What is the certain fate of the drunken and intemperate? .
8.Who is classed with the drunkard? .
9.To whom do we belong? ; .
10.What is the price which has been paid for us? .
11.What does God design our bodies to be? .
12.How should we use them? .
13.What does God desire as regards health of body? .
14.For what purpose should we eat and drink? .
15.How are the mind and conscience sure to be affected by intemperance? .
16.How did a disregard of this affect Aaron's sons? , see also ; .
17.What is one of the fruits of the Spirit of God? ; .
18.How should we regard these lusts of appetite and passion? ; .
19.What warning and admonition are given us for the last days? ; .
20.What should we do? ; .
21.Are those free men and women who are bound by useless or hurtful habits of any kind? .
22.How should those who know the truth live? .
23.Against what are we exhorted? .
24.What is ever a safe rule? .

Notes

Intemperance is by no means to be confined to indulgence in alcoholic or fermented liquors. Whatever it is to which a man stoops in blind submission, upon which he wastes his powers of mind or body uselessly, is a master, and he is a slave, and the repeated act of indulgence is intemperance, fraught with the same direful consequences, bondage of soul and body, and at last irretrievable ruin. Thus tobacco in its various forms holds millions in its power. Tea and coffee hold millions more in bondage. Of course the last two are not as bad as the use of alcohol, opium, absinthe, and tobacco, but, though milder, they do no good, they enslave the mind, blunt the finer sensibilities of the soul, and so unfit it to appreciate the glorious truths of God. Freedom in Christ is freedom from every enthralling habit.

Bible texts in this lesson

1 Corinthians 10:31 · Isaiah 43:7 · Revelation 4:11 · Ephesians 1:4 · Romans 3:23 · Lamentations 3:33 · Ezekiel 16:49 · Ezekiel 16:50 · Galatians 5:21 · Proverbs 23:20 · Proverbs 23:21 · 1 Corinthians 7:23 · Galatians 3:13 · 1 Peter 1:18 · 1 Peter 1:19 · 1 Corinthians 6:19 · 1 Corinthians 6:20 · 3 John 1:2 · Ecclesiastes 10:17 · Leviticus 10:8-11 · Leviticus 10:1 · Leviticus 10:2 · Isaiah 56:9-12 · Ezekiel 22:26 · Galatians 5:22 · Galatians 5:23 · 2 Peter 1:5-8 · 1 Peter 2:11 · Colossians 3:5 · Romans 13:13 · Luke 21:34 · Luke 21:35 · Romans 13:14 · 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 · Romans 6:16 · 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8 · Romans 14:13

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