| anti-alcohol tracts will do more good than all other tracts besides. | | For those are the root and foundation of almost every disorder of mind | | and body, even upon those who never used it: for it is written: "I | | will visit the sins and iniquities of the fathers upon the children | | and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth | | generation," of them that violate the laws of nature and their own | | being. | | | | A wise man hath said look not on the wine when it is red. But a wiser | | than he hath decreed that they only who seek after wisdom shall find | | it, that fools shall be afflicted because of their transgressions, and | | that whosoever refuseth instruction shall destroy his own soul. | | | | He that is capable of reflection must perceive that whatever disorders | | the nerves disorders the brain and the mind, also the morals, then it | | corrupts society, possibly for generations to come. You must also | | perceive that Life and Death, Health and Disease, are alike | | transmitted with the germ of the unborn being. That a diseased and | | poisoned body can not transmit a healthy germ. You see that the seed | | of an apple that grew on a hollow tree will never produce a sound | | tree. Then why expect an affected and poisoned body and mind, to | | produce those that are active and strong? | | | | It is not on the external condition in which you find your self | | placed, but on the part which you are to act, that your welfare or | | unhappiness, your honor or dishonor, your health or diseases depends. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+