Hazardous ventures in stocks or business are dangerous in the extreme.

Without the grace of God in the heart, and the strength that it gives in times of depression of spirits under severe trial, there are few reformed men who can bear, with any safety, the loss of a wife or very dear child.
Thousands who have, for the time, abandoned the habit have returned to it to drown, in unconsciousness, their feeling of loss; hence the great and vital importance of an entire change of heart to enable a man to go to his faith for consolation, and to look to God for help in times of trial and temptation.
[Illustration: BOYHOOD.
The first Step.] [Illustration: YOUTH.
The Second Step.] [Illustration: MANHOOD.
A Confirmed Drunkard.] [Illustration: OLD AGE.
A Total Wreck.].