The taste created for the disgusting, filthy poison, tobacco, leads to the desire for stronger stimulants; as liquor, which is taken on one plea or another for some imaginary infirmity or to prevent some possible disease. Thus an unnatural appetite is created for these hurtful and exciting stimulants; and this appetite has strengthened until the increase of intemperance in this generation is alarming. Beverage-loving, liquor-drinking men may be seen everywhere. Their intellect is enfeebled, their moral powers are weakened, their sensibilities are benumbed, and the claims of God and heaven are not realized, eternal things are not appreciated. The Bible declares that no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God. {4T 30.3} Tobacco and liquor stupefy and defile the user. But the evil does not stop here. He transmits irritable tempers, polluted blood, enfeebled intellects, and weak morals to his children, and renders himself accountable for all the evil results that his wrong and dissipated course of life brings upon his family and the community. The race is groaning under a weight of accumulated woe, because of the sins of former generations. And yet with scarcely a thought or care, men and women of the present generation indulge intemperance by surfeiting and drunkenness, and thereby leave, as a legacy for the next generation, disease, enfeebled intellects, and polluted morals. {4T 30.4}

Smagen som dannes for væmmelig og modbydelig giftig tobak, fører til ønske om stærkere stimulanser; som brændevin, som efter den ene påstand efter den anden tages for nogle indbildte sygdomme eller for at forhindre mulige sygdomme. Derved skabes en unaturlig appetit for disse skadelige og spændende stimulanser; og denne lyst har tiltaget indtil umådeholdenhedens grad for denne slægt er alamerende. Drikfældighed og brændevinsdrikkende mennesker ses over alt. Deres forstand svækkes, deres moralske kræfter svækkes, deres følsomhed lammes og Guds og himlens fordringer kan ikke erkendes, evige sager kan ikke påskønnes. Bibelen erklærer at ingen dranker skal arve Guds rige.