THE marked increase of the use of all kinds of narcotics, is a fact commented on to quite an extent at the present time by medical writers. Tobacco, alcoholic drinks, and tea and coffee are among the most common of these agencies to which mankind is ever more frequently resorting, while much alarm is felt also by many who know the facts over the increasing use of such deadly drugs as opium and cocaine. The evil is one which extends to both sexes and all classes of the people. The causes of this intemperance are to be found in the use of mild stimulants, which invariably lead to a demand by the human system for something stronger, and to the nervous tension incident to the fast living of this rapidly moving age. One writer not long ago pointed out a direct connection between the spread of intemperance among the upper classes and the demands of life in “high society.” The society leader is obliged to disregard the natural laws of rest and sleep for the human organism, and after passing through some successful society “function” feels the need of something to brace up the system which has been unduly drained of nervous force. It is a truth which needs to be pointed out and emphasized that just as one lie leads to another, so one disregard of nature’s laws leads always to another and greater violation, and that there is an intimate connection between the transgression of moral law and physical suffering—between sin and sickness. There is no safety without conforming to the order of living prescribed by Christianity. The person who is a moral Christian will be a physical Christian as well, exemplifying Christian simplicity in dress and habits. But the one who would keep pace with the world, on the other hand, is led by the demands of worldliness into that which deprives him of physical and mental, as well as moral, life.