The Increasing Curse of Intemperance
By Editor
All well-informed people know that the drink habit is very strongly on the increase. More alcoholic drinks are being consumed each succeeding year. But the use of alcoholic beverages does not include all that there is to the great curse of the intemperance of this time. The use of opium and similar drugs is also growing to an alarming degree, and is adding greatly to the evils of the drink habit. The article from Doctor Kress on page 10 should be read and reflected upon by every one. The Master gave this warning for those who should be living in the last days: "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting [overeating], and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." Luke 21:34. When we see how the drunkenness caused by the use of alcoholic drinks has been increased in these times; and, further, when we see that so many new forms of deadening and stupefying the faculties thru drug drunkenness have been invented, is it not remarkable how clear the Lord's view of this time was when He gave the warning in the foregoing verse?