Stimulants and Narcotics
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Men seek the excitement of stimulants, because, for the time, the results are agreeable. But there is always a reaction. The use of unnatural stimulants always tends to excess, and it is an active agent in promoting physical degeneration and decay.
Tired nerves need rest and quiet instead of stimulation.
Tobacco is a slow, insidious, but most malignant poison. In whatever form it is used, it tells upon the constitution; it is all the more dangerous because its effects are slow...
Never was traced by human hand a more vivid picture of the debasement and the slavery of the victim of intoxicating drink.
It was Christ who, in the Old Testament, gave the warning to Israel, Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 20:1.
In relation to tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcoholic drinks, the only safe course is to *touch not, *taste not, *handle not.