Continue within bounds, but never indulge to excess. You have by indulgence made your habit second nature, and it cannot be controlled unless the moral power shall be aroused and you look unto Jesus, trusting in the grace he shall give to overcome this unnatural craving. Your self-indulgence is not only a moral sin but it has become a physical disease. He has purchased you with an infinite price, and every faculty is to be employed in his service. The taste created for the disgusting, filthy poison, tobacco, leads to the desire for stronger stimulants, as liquor, which is taken on one plea or another, for some imaginary infirmity, or to prevent some possible disease.
Physicians are responsible for making many drunkards.
Knowing what drink will do for its lovers, they have taken upon themselves the responsibility of prescribing it for their patients. Did they reason from cause to effect, they would know that stimulants would have the same effect on each individual organ of the body that they have on the whole man. Go with me to yonder sick-room. There lies a husband and father, a man who is a blessing to society and to the cause of God. He has been suddenly stricken down by disease.