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there is always a reaction. The nervous system, having been unduly
excited, borrowed power for present use from its future resources of
strength. All this temporary invigoration of the system is followed by
depression. In proportion as these stimulants temporarily invigorate
the system, will be the letting down of the power of the excited organs
after the stimulus has lost its force. The appetite is educated to crave
something stronger, which will have a tendency to keep up and in-
crease the agreeable excitement, until indulgence becomes habit, and
there is a continual craving for stronger stimulus, as tobacco, wines,
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and liquors. The more the appetite is indulge, the more frequent will
be its demands, and the more difficult of control. The more debili-
tated the system becomes, and the less able to do without unnatural
stimulus, the more the passion for these things increases, until the will
is overborne, and there seems to be no power to deny the unnatural
craving for these indulgences.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:487,
488, 1875
The Only Safe Course
The only safe course is to touch not, taste not, handle not, tea,
coffee, wines, tobacco, opium, and alcoholic drinks. The necessity for
the men of this generation to call to their aid the power of the will,
strengthened by the grace of God, in order to withstand the temptations
of Satan, and resist the least indulgence of perverted appetite, is twice
as great as it was several generations ago.
The Conflict Between Truth and Self-indulgence
746. The facts relative to Korah and his company, who rebelled
against Moses and Aaron, and against Jehovah, are recorded for a
warning to God’s people, especially those who live upon the earth
near the close of time. Satan has led persons to imitate the example
of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, in raising insurrection among the
people of God. Those who permit themselves to rise in opposition to
the plain testimony, become self-deceived, and have really thought
that those upon whom God laid the burden of His work were exalted
above the people of God, and that their counsels and reproofs were
uncalled for. They have risen in opposition to the plain testimony
which God would have them bear in rebuking the wrongs among