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March 18 - March 23, 2018
“You cannot make money from people unless you are willing for people to make money from you.”
This may explain why the Latin word for beer is cerevisium,
“Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?”
“Drunkenness,” he wrote, is “when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail.”
There are also the Roman Catholic churches that display plaques in honor of Arthur Guinness, a Protestant,
Perhaps this is the lesson: each generation stands on its own and there is only so much that those who come before them can do to assure a pleasing outcome.
he treated them generously and he committed them to God.
A banker can be as called and as pleasing to God as Billy Graham may be when he preaches.
he wrote in his diary that his only passion was “to live preaching and to die preaching; to live and die in the pulpit; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.”
Beyond his huge popularity and impact, we should note, too, his simplicity. There was no attempt to stir up emotions, no crafty plan to manipulate the crowd to a fever pitch. Instead, Henry Grattan Guinness simply preached the gospel—calmly, plainly, and with respect for his audiences.
Hudson Taylor was converted at the age of seventeen while looking for a book to read in his father’s library. He stumbled upon a tract titled “It Is Finished” and decided he had to know exactly what it was that was finished. By the time he had read the tract and searched out some of the answers for himself, he had, in his words, “made Christ his Savior.” Months later, on December 2, 1849, he was spending time alone in prayer when the matter of China came to his mind.
Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.”
Prohibition stands as a testimony to the damage that can be done through ignorance of the benefits of beer. Rather than emphasize beer as an antidote to drunkenness, as a healthy alternative to harder drinks that, in excess, ruined men’s lives, Prohibitionists treated all alcohol as the same.
It was called moral philosophy and it was a blend of history, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It was, in short, history writ large, a look at the past to gain the lessons that might be learned.
Prince Albert: “Gentlemen, find out the will of God for your day and generation, and then, as quickly as possible, get into line.”
“We followed our traditional policy of considering long and acting quickly.”
