We believe that little can be expected from spiritual aids, or pledges, or resolves, unless the patient can so build up his physical as to sustain them.

Give a man a healthy body and brainpower, and you can build up his spiritual life; but all attempts to cultivate a power that is crushed by diseased forces will be practically useless.

Call it a vice or a disease, it matters not, the return to health must be along _the line of natural laws and means_.

Some men will not feel any longing for drink unless they get in the centre of excitement, or violate some natural law, or neglect the common means of health.

Now, teach them these exciting causes, and build up their health, and the pledge will not be difficult to keep.