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Wet, dry, moist, and the proposed fate of the dram drinkers By JIM "Commence, Lord, to pour out Thy blessings to Jamestown, for Lord, Thou knowest that they are sadly in need of it there..." (from a mighty prayer heavenward sent by Adair Countian Clayton Miller from the Old Zion Baptist Church, c. 1847. See Cyrus sends notes on Clayton Miller Prays a Mighty Prayer Today's moist/dry election in Jamestown, in which Demon Rum has the chance to (legally) rear its head in Russell County for the first time since shortly after the repeal of the Volstead Act, has not unexpectedly brought to the front the model known as "Baptists and Bootleggers." (Think I'm making that up? Google it.) All the to-do from the dry side of the aisle during the course of past several weeks brought to mind the temperance recommendations of fivescore and thirteen years ago from the South Cumberland Association of Baptists, the Association to which Russell County belonged at the time. One has to wonder how many of those of any denomination leading the hellfire and damnation charge in these recent weeks have followed these recommendations, the salient points of which are transcribed below from the September 12, 1900 Adair County News. (For those gentle CM readers not as thoroughly schooled in the ways of the world as is your humble scribe, "dram drinking" was an alliterative euphemism for allowing alcohol to pass one's lips in any quantity, no matter how small, as emphasized by the word dram, a unit of measure equal to one-sixteenth of an ounce.) Rev. W.B. Cave, who attended that long ago Association meeting, wrote (in part) for the News: "The report on temperance read as follows: we would recommend that dram drinking be made a bar to fellowship in our churches..." (No ambiguity here: anyone who partook of alcohol, even so much -- or more accurately, even so little -- as a dram would be kicked out of the church.) Continued Rev. Cave, "[A]lso that we [that is, the Association] will not retain a church in our fellowship who holds a member that makes, sells, aids or abets, or rents his property for the use of any whisky purposes..." Any takers on following through with these recommendations? - JIM This story was posted on 2013-07-23 12:02:07
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