take heed lest he fall."

I think it right to put this side of the question in its just evidence,
and having done so I willingly dismiss it with the remark that I am not
talking to middle-aged nor to old men. My appeal is to young men, and
I say to you without qualification, without a suspicion of mental
reservation, you do not need strong drink. There are conceivable
circumstances where it may be medically prescribed, but such
prescription from competent men has well-nigh reached the
vanishing-point. Near as any statement can get to its ultimate, I
affirm that you never have need of this drink. Keep it, then, out of
your blood in your threshold years, and you will have less or no
craving for it at all in those that are travelling your way. If you
should imagine that you inherit the craving, there is, at any rate, one
rampart which, if held, the craving cannot force--that is, total
abstinence from the thing craved. Range yourselves with the
abstainers, and be proud of your legion. It will be better for you in
every way, whether it be in physical health, mental efficiency, moral
force, or spiritual attainment. Settle it with yourselves, that there
are no conditions in your life which can be called normal, and few that
are abnormal, where you need the drink, and that to trifle with a thing
so unnecessary, and yet so dangerous, is moral idiocy.

I plead with you to take high ground in your conceptions of the duty
you owe to yourselves, and to your day and opportunities. As a nation
we have to conquer drunkenness, or it will go far, as it is doing now,
to conquer the nation. And we have a right to look to you young men to
lead us forth to this great victory. We have the right to ask you to
quit yourselves like men in mighty attack upon this devil's trinity of
impurity, gambling, and drunkenness. I have said little in this
address on what is called its distinctively religious side. The
religion is in the subject itself. Realize what it is that needs to be
done in yourselves and in the world around you, and I will trust
religion to take care of itself. Face this work of conquest first by
self-conquest, and you will find the need of a help not yourselves and
greater than yourselves. And the help will come: "I can do all
things," said the Apostle, "through Christ which strengtheneth me."

"I wish he would find the point again in this speaking man, and stick
to it with tenacity, with deadly energy, for there i