health is broken, and they turn to medicine. Others will get their alcohol and its effects through foods which are considered harmless but which contain the same constituent elements as alcohol.

In dealing with these things, we reach the individual by instructing him, as to the Truth of his being. Then we hold him in this consciousness and seek to show him how he has unknowingly made unwise use of his life and the substance which is provided for his nourishment.

A belief in some sort of repression and lack, and the consequent sense of lack of life, cause a soul hungering and also a physical hungering for food. Intemperate eating is accompanied by a craving for stimulants. Those who prepare and serve meals without knowledge of the body's real needs are often the outer cause of the development of the drinking habit.

A strong desire for a fuller realization of life sometimes leads to the use of stimulants. When someone who is near to the drinker comes to his senses and looks Godward, the way to freedom and wholeness and real satisfaction is revealed.

The first step in healing another's physical weakness and tendency to drunkenness is to give up all grief and worry, and to withdraw all condemnation and censure --- for the liquor, for those who serve it, and for the individual