Charles Spurgeon on Drunkenness:

“My soul might be perpetually dropping showers of tears, if it might know the doom and destruction brought on by that one demon, and by that one demon only! Though I am no total abstainer, I hate drunkenness as much as any man breathing, and have been the means of bringing many poor creatures to relinquish this bestial indulgence. We believe drunkenness to be an awful crime and a horrid sin. We stand prepared to go to war with it. How many thousands are murdered every year by that accursed devil of drunkenness!”

When I came across this quote I was surprised. Not that Spurgeon would  hold these views. That seems rather obvious—He was the ‘last of the puritans’. No, I was surprised at how circumstantial his reasoning was. I mean that he doesn’t appeal directly to scripture for it. In theory, were the circumstances different, he might have a different opinion.

That’s strange for a Puritan—especial over a rule of such stringent adherence. I’m not really disagreeing with him. Really, I just found it really interesting that this was the foundation for his opinion.