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TOTAL ABSTINENCE is BEST
Experienced Physicians Confess Its
Value Is lnflnitesimal in Com
parison to Treachery.

Drink is dangerous. Nearly all the
men and women who have been ruin
ed by It were confident they could
control themselves. II is unwhole-
some. Granting 1t may be useful un-
der certain circumstances, yet in prac.
uce 1t does harm, and that continually.
The most experienced physicians viii
confess that even In their hands its
food value is infnitesimal in compari.
son to its treachery and that Its drug
value Is always matter OF experiment
and risk, writes John G. Woolley in the
New Voice. Personally, do not
think 1t proven always to be useless
for nutrition or injurious for medicine,
but If | am not mistaken, the statis-
tics of drunkenness will show that
doctors, Of all educated men, are its
most numerous victims.
1t may be said this proves too much
since many things that everybody does
are more or less unhealthy and that
the case would be as good against
meat eating, late suppers, coffee, run.
ming to trains, etc. But 1t is certain.
sacredness of life and its inseparable
postlude, the inviolableness of sound,
sane and abounding health. SO far
from fearing to admit these other
things upon an equal footing into the
contention | welcome them and all
their kind, and make my whole claim
in the premises upon this: That every
GhriGtiap ought tn har hi
body, to keep 1t holy-that, once 1t be
shown that fiesh-eating is peril or an
injury In any case, there ought to be
an end of It in that case; that late
suppers ought to be cut out even upon
suspicion; that the old people ought
never to run to catch train, and that
coffee ought to be put in the dock
with alcohol, If as strongly case be
made against 1t. ! only hold as relat.
ing to beverages and popular-remedy
alcohol that, with all the evidence in
on both sides, and giving 1t the bene-
MT OF every reasonable doubt, 1t ought
to be outlawed In individual life, and
home and church and state, in the sa.
cred name of health
From the standpoint of the highest,
finest morality the case is yet more
easily made out. or all the forms of
selfishness, moderate drinking is the
most widely and inexorably hurtful.
The faculty OF imitation is the largest
organ in the human brain, and through
1t the drinking habit does its deadliest
havoc with the boys and girls AS
rule, the first taste and the first eff.
fects of intoxicants are the reverse OF
pleasant to the tyro, but the mimic
devil turns the first check OF the de-
stroyer into victory by even inducing
the young imitator to call for stronger,
nastler cups, and court the stagger-
ing. flushed and bloodshot characters.
tics of the sot out of sheer bravado.
From the mind Of Christ" the case
has no two sides. God so loved the
world that he gave every one OF us
that whosoever believeth in us might
not perish, but have a better show to
live forever. The population of perdi.
tion rolls up its awful census in the
main by those who proudly and inno-
Gently believe on some good, temper.
ate men and women who tippled with.
out harm to themselves, beyond the
unconscious bunting. coarsening eff.
feet upon their highest motives.
The soul that sinneth 1t shall die"
so runs the sacred word 1t might
be, then, that doing right is immor.
tality and the call of God in Jesus
Christ is simply to live in such
way that they who pattern after us
shall do right.
At our sincerest and devotedest,
how to live the best for our own selves
and others is mystery; but If there
Is one clear working precept in Chris
tian life, it is: DO not touch wine or
strong drink"