CHAPTER IV.
IT CURSES THE SOUL.
The physical disasters that follow the continued use of intoxicating beverages are sad enough, and terrible enough; but the surely attendant mental, moral and spiritual disasters are sadder and more terrible still.

If you disturb the healthy condition of the brain, which is the physical organ through which the mind acts, you disturb the mind.

It will not have the same clearness of perception as before; nor have the same rational control over the impulses and passions.
In what manner alcohol deteriorates the body and brain has been shown in the two preceding chapters.

In this one we purpose showing how the curse goes deeper than the body and brain, and involves the whole man--morally and spiritually, as well as physically.
HEAVENLY ORDER IN THE BODY.
In order to understand a subject clearly, certain general laws, or principles, must be seen and admitted.

And here we assume, as a general truth, that health in the human body is normal heavenly order on the physical plane of life, and that any disturbance of that order exposes the man to destructive influences, which are evil and infernal in their character.