by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
God's Bottles
Language: English
We will drink from God's bottles. Apples are God's bottles: the sweet juice of the apple God has placed in His own bottle. What a beautiful rosy-red bottle it is! These red bottles hang on the limbs of a tree until they are all ready for us to use. Do you want to open God's bottle? Bite the apple with your teeth, and you will taste the sweet juice God has put in His bottle for you. Grapes are God's bottles: these purple and green bottles you will find hanging on a pretty vine. See! So many little bottles are on a single stem! Put a grape in your mouth and you will open God's bottle. How nice the juice tastes! Some men take the juice of apples and grapes and make drinks, that will harm our bodies. They put the drinks in glass bottles, but we will not drink from such bottles. We will drink from God's bottles.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, a leaflet Issued by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union (n.d.) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "God's Bottles", 2005 [medium voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-05-01
Line count: 20
Word count: 159