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A minister was completing a temperance sermon. With great emphasis he spoke, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."

With even greater emphasis he affirmed, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."

And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he thundered, "AND IF I HAD ALL THE WHISKEY IN THE WORLD I'D TAKE IT AND POUR IT INTO THE RIVER!"

Sermon completed, he sat down.

The song leader stood very cautiously and --barely stifling a smile-- announced, "For our closing song, let us sing Hymn #365, "Shall We Gather at the River."

AMEN!!!

These people give temperance a negative connotation. Socrates defined a temperant life as the rational part of a person being in control of the bodily desires, not a complete renunciation of the bodily desires.

Be temperate means enjoying life in the proper balance, nothing more, nothing less. So have a beer and relax!