Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene - Ellen G. White

The use of intoxicating liquor dethrones reason,
and hardens the heart against every pure and holy
influence. The inanimate rocks will sooner listen to
the appeals of truth and justice than will that man
whose sensibilities are paralyzed by intemperance.
Those who venture to enter the forbidden path are
gradually and unconsciously led on, until they
become demoralized, corrupted, and maddened.
And while Christians are asleep, this evil is gaining
more strength and making fresh victims. If the
moral sensibilities of Christians were aroused upon
the subject of temperance in all things, and they
realized that the final destiny of every one depends
upon the habits he forms, they could, by their
example, help those who are weak in self-control,
to resist the cravings of appetite.
We witness great struggles in our country to
put down intemperance; but it is a hard matter to
overcome and chain a full-grown lion. If half the
efforts that have been put forth to stay this giant
evil had been directed toward enlightening parents
in regard to their responsibility in forming the
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