An Apt Illustration

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1885

An Apt Illustration.

“But, doctor, I must have some kind of stimulant,” cried the invalid, earnestly; “I am cold, and it warms me.”

“Precisely,” came the doctor’s crusty answer. “See here; this stick is cold”—taking up a stick of wood from a box beside the hearth, and tossing it into the fire, “now it is warm; but is the stick benefited?”

The sick man watched the wood first send out little puffs of smoke, and then burst into flame, and replied: “Of course not, it is burning itself!”

“And so are you when you warm yourself with alcohol; you are literally burning up the delicate tissues of your stomach and brain.”—Sel.