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CONTENTS.

Introduction by Rev. Wm. McDona.p. CHAPTER
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Peeemes! Conclusions ........... er ath Se gle ee

‘‘Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.’’? 2 Cor., 7:1.

Introduction, by Rew. Wm. McDonald.

Editor CHRISTIAN WITNESS, Boston, Mass.

There is no greater enemy to health, cleanliness,
decency and morality, intoxicating liquors excepted,
than tobacco. Itis unhealthy; itis uncleanly ; it is
indecent, and it is immoral ; and no one can indulge
in its use without doing violence to an enlightened con-
science, blunting their moral sensibilities, and seri-
ously retarding, if not putting an end to, all genuine
Spirituality. Its history ought to convey to us a les-
son of value, and induce us to abandon it forever.

Just when and where tobacco had its origin is not
clear. Some have supposed that it originated in the
fabulous ages of Greece, and to have derived its name
from Bacchus, the god of drunkenness. That fabled
god is said to have been the first to discover and dis-
close to mortals the wonderful virtues of this weed.
There is an old poem, written by Joseph Sylvester,
dedicated to Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, with the
quaint title, ‘‘Tobacco Battered and the Pipe Shat-
tered [about their ears who idly idolize so base and
barbarous a weed ; or, at least, will overlove so loath-
some a vanity,] by a Volley of Holy Shot from Mount
Helicon.” The author of this poem claims that it is
dedicated to the ‘‘cup-god Bacchus,” and that its

6 PIPE AND QUID.

name is derived from the Greek word BaxcHo. Here
are his words :—

‘For even the derivation of the name,

Seems to allude and to include the same,

Tobacco, as to Bakcho one would say,

To cup-god Bacchus dedicated ay.”

But Humboldt has shown, and we judge more cor-
rectly, that tobacco is a term in the Haytian lan-
guage used to designate the pipe, an instrument used
by the natives in smoking the herb ; which term, he
Says, was transferred by the Spaniards from the pipe
to the herb itself, and has since been adopted by oth-
er nations.

The introduction of tobacco into England was by
Sir Walter Raleigh, from Virginia. The English,
during their stay in Virginia, and after their return,
are said to have practiced smoking after the custom of
the natives. The introduction of smoking into Eng-
land, by Raleigh, and other young men of fashion,
spread as rapidly among the English as it had among
the Portuguees, Spaniards and French. Raleigh was
accustomed to give smoking-parties at his own house,
where his guests were treated to nothing except a
pipe, a mug of aleandanutmeg. Here we see the
early and intimate relation which tobacco sustained
to ale and strong drink—a relation it has never aban-
doned.

The Abbot Nyssens was confident that the devil in-
troduced tobacco into Europe—a severe charge upon
his satanic majesty. :

In 1519 Cortez, the illustrious conqueror of Mexico,
is said to have sent a specimen of this weed to his
king, which is supposed to be the first ever introduc-
ed into Europe. America has the dishonor of first —
producing the weed. But whether its growth was
spontaneous here, or whether it came from a more

TOBACCO ESSAY. 7

southern soil to Virginia, is not known. It is certain
that the English found it in Virginia on their first vis-
iting thesoil. Mr. Jefferson was of the opinion that
it was a native of a more southern climate, and was
handed along the continent from one tribe of savages
to another until it reached us. |

The comparative value of tobacco, in early times,
may be inferred from the following fact: Weare
told that the increase of adventurers in Virginia, from
year to year, was so great that the male population
far outnumbered the female, making wives exceed-
ingly scarce. To supply this lack they were obliged
to import women as they did articles of merchandise.
In 1620 and 1621, no less than 150 girls were import-
ed to the Virginia market, all of whom found a ready
sale. The price of a nice young lady, at first, was
one hundred pounds of tobacco. Subsequently the
price of tobacco went down, or the price of young
ladies went up, for we find that the price of a nice
young lady was one hundred and fifty pounds of to-
bacco. This fact alone should induce every lady who
has any respect for herself to wage eternal war with
this foe of a decent, cleanly home.

Smoking was the first form in which tobacco was
used, and for a long time it was the only mode in
which it was used in Europe. An old epigram on the
subject of smoking has been preserved among the
curious things of the past, which runs thus :—

‘“‘We buy the dryest wood that we can find,
And willingly would leave the smoke behind ;
But in tobacco a thwart course we take, ;
Buying the herb only for the smoke’s sake.

During the reign of George III. smoking went out
of fashion among the higher and middle classes, and
SNUFFING took its place. This was the second mode
of using tobacco, and, we must confess, the most ob-

8 PIPE AND QUID.

jectionable mode, especially when practiced by fe-
males, Catherine de Medici, the person who instiga-
ted the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day,
is said to have been the first to invent and introduced
snufi-taking. And, in order to be very polite, they
adopted the method of using a little ladle, or spoon,
with which the snuff was applied to the olfactories.
This practice prevailed extensively among the En-
glish ; so much so that the Rev. Samuel Wesley, with
a good deal of sarcasm, says :—

‘‘To such a height, with some has fashion grown,

They feed their very nostrils with a spoon ;

One, and but one degree is wanted yet,

To make their senseless luxury complete,

Some choice regale, useless as snuff, an dear,

To feed the mazy windings of the ear.’

So far as we know, this ‘‘choice regale” for the ear
has not yet been discovered, but we cannot tell what
may come in the future. We have somewhere heard
it said, ironically, we presume, that a substitute for
tobacco had been discovered, which was likely to
come into general use. Such an expectation is based,
it is said, upon the fact that the new article is much
cheaper and twice as nasty.

‘‘Whatsoever things are pure.’’ —Bible.

PIPE AND OULD.
CHAPTER I.

1. TOBACCO IS A DEADLY POISON. It is classed by
chemistry under the ‘‘Narcotics” which are defined
as [Enc. Brit.,] ‘‘Substances having the physiologi-
cal action, in a healthy animal, of producing lethargy
or stupor, which may pass into a state of profound
coma or unconsciousness along with complete paraly-
sis, producing death.”

It belongs to the same class of anodynes and hyp-
notics as opium, chloral, hops, henbane, belladonna,
Indian hemp, etc. ‘‘All these substances act on the
nervous system. Their action shows three well de-
fined stages ; (1.) There is a period of apparent exal-
tation of function. (2.) This is followed by a period
of diminution and perversion of functional activity.
(3.) There is a time of loss of function in which there
is profound coma and paralysis.” [Dr. McKendrick,
Professor of Medicine, Glasgow. ]

2. TOBACCO IS A VILE COMPOUND. Vaqueline, the
French chemist, says: ‘‘The ingredients of tobacco
are: i, The acrid, volatile principle nicotine, (a
poison) ; 2, albumen; 3, acetic acid; 4, soluble
red matter; 5, supermalate of lime; 6, chiorophy]l ;
7, nitrate of potash; g, sal ammoniac; 10, water.”

IO PIPE AND QUID.

A deadly compound of poisonous elements. Six
pounds of tobacco leaves under chemical analysis
give out eleven grains of ‘‘Oil of Tobacco.” This is
an acrid, empyreumatic oil, detected in the smoke,
and a most virulent poison. Of this oil, the most ac-
tive principle is NICOTINE, of which one drop placed on
the tongue instantly killed a dog. The vapor de-
stroyed the life of birds. |

3. Its SYMPTOMS ARE ALWAYS DREADFUL AND DEAD-
Ly. It produces thirst, giddiness, faintness, nausea,
vomiting and purging. Nature abhors it, and by ev-
ery possible means, seeks to be rid of it. To use
it is a crime against nature. The skin becomes cold
and clammy, the muscles relaxed, the pulse feeble,
and fainting follows. Persistent and long continued
indulgence is often followed by total paralysis, almost
invariably by partial paralysis. Convulsions follow,
often terminating in death. |

‘It is a nauseous and poisonous weed of an acrid
taste and disagreeable odor, WHOSE ONLY PROPERTIES
ARE DELETERIOUS. It impairs digestion, poisons the
blood, prncrarre the heart, and depresses the vital
powers.” [Enc. American. ]

Dr. Brodie found on experiment that two drops of
the oil on the tongue of a cat produced death ina few
minutes.

Koempifer ranks it with the strongest vegetable pois-

ons.
Dr. Jolly—Fellow of the Royal Society—calls it

‘the curse of the age.” He declares that smoking
tobacco is one of the most common causes of general
paralysis. Learned physicians have estimated that
20,000 [what an army of suicides !] yearly die in this
land from this poison.

ILLusTRATION. A mother whose child had some
humor of the face, was told to rub the oil from the

TOBACCO ESSAY. II

. filthy stem of an old pipe upon the child’s face. (Ma-
ny like prescriptions are the most arrant humbug and
cruelty.) She didso. The child dropped insensible,
and for years suffered in health, weakly and puny.

Place a cigar in the arm-pit of a child and let it lie
there for the night ; he will be dead in the morning..
Men who fill the rooms with tobacco smoke are slow-
ly but surely sapping away the life of the children
who are compelled to breathe it. It is suicide to the
father and murder to the wife and children. Indians
dip their arrows in the juice boiled down, and pierce
their foes with a deadly wound, certain to kill or slow
to heal. i

Again.—An infant of Mr. Benjamin Wilson, ef
Prince George county, Maryland, swallowed some
crumbs of tobacco which he had picked up from the
floor. He was immediately taken ill and died two
days afterward from the effects of the poison from
the weed, physicians being unable to afford any reliet.

4. ITIS USUALLY ADULTERATED WITH VILE COM-
POUNDS, Cigarettes are soaked in opium to fasten
the habit upon the young with chains of a lifelong
bondage. Mice and vermin are found pressed to death
in plug tobacco. Cigars are made by workmen suf-
fering with syphilitic sores, and the disease thus
transmitted to smokers. All kinds of devices for
making the cigars and tobacco cheap, FRAGRANT [!]
and attractive, are in vogue. All kinds of stuffs are
used to adulterate the materials. Asif the deadly
weed itself were not already murderous enough, oth-
er poisons are infused into the decoction and sold as
‘pure Havana filled.” :

British laws have been invoked to suppress this
business. What a pity the whole wretched traffic has
not been prohibited long ago. Its dangers, costs and

I2 PIPE AND QUID.

evil results are second only to liquor. The following
is good authority on this point and worth careful
reading : |

The Boston TRANSCRIPT says: We have heard the tobacco
user claim that the weed was food and drink to him; but never
thorougly believed him until a British parliamentary report on
adulteration set forth the following schedule: ‘‘Sugar, alum, lime,
flour or meal, rhubarb leaves, salpetre, fuller’s earth; starch, malt,
cummin, chromate of lead, peat, moss, molasses, burdock leaves,
lamp-black, gum, red dye, a black dye composed of vegetables,
red licorice, scraps of newspapers, cinnamon stick, cabbage
leaves and straw-brown paper.”

The Supervisor at Birmingham, observing that an articke was
being sold at a very cheap rate in packets, under the name of ©
‘‘Smoking Mixture,” sent a sample to the Inland Revenue Labora-
tory for examination, and it being found to contain a large pro-
portion of vegetable matter resembling the broken up heads of
camomile flowers, further inquiry led to the discovery of the
manufactory. The process of manufacture consisted in exhaust-
ing the bitter principle of camomile flower-heads with water, and
then dyeing and sweetening them with a solution of logwood and
licorice, which brought them, when dried, somewhat to the color
of tobacco. The heads, when broken up, were then mixed with
from twenty to thirty per centum of cut tobacco, according to the
price at which the mixture was to be sold. The mixture was sup-
plied to retailers in packets, labeled ‘‘The New Smoking Mixture,
Analyzed and Approved;” and as agencies had already been estab-
lished in several towns, an extensive trade would no doubt soon
have arisen had the manufactory not been suppressed at an early
stage of its existence.x—PaLL MALL GAZETTE.

The medical authorities quoted above are among
the first of their profession. The chemical nature of
the weed cannot be denied. Its symptoms can be

observed on every side.

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CHAPTER II.
TOBACCO INJURIOUS TO THE HEALTH.

John Wesley, writing to a Methodist preacher in
Ireland, says, ‘‘Clean yourselves of lice. Cure your
self and family of theitch. Use notobacco.” Worthy
trio! Properly associated. ‘‘Use no tobaccco, un-
less prescribed by a physician. It isan uncleanly and
unwholesome self-indulgence ; and the more custom-
ary itis the more resolutely should you break off
from every degree of that evil custom. Use no snuif,
I suppose no other nation in Europe is in such vile
bondage to this silly, nasty, dirty custom as the
Irish are. But let Christians be in this bondage no
longer. Assert your liberty, and that all at once.
Nothing will be done by degrees. But just now you
may break loose, through Christ strengthening you.”
(Wesley’s works, Vol. 6, p. 746.)

Lice, itch and tobacco forbidden to Methodists!
Surely all our luxuries are going! What a cross fora
real Methodist !

Brother stand up now and plead for your three
friends !

I, Iv ATTACKS ALL THE SYSTEM AND FUNCTIONS. Dr.
Stephenson says that ‘‘the salivary glands, whose ac-
tion is intensely excited by smoking and chewing, are
so exhausted that brandy, whiskey, or some other

I4 PIPE AND QUID,

spirit is called for. We very seldom see a drunkard,
or even a moderate drinker, who did not begin his vi-
cious career by using tobacco. The use of the one
soon creates a demand for theother.” Dr. Rush says,
this ‘‘thirst cannot be allayed by water, for no seda-
tive, or even insipid liquor, will be relished after the
mouth and throat have been exposed to the stimu-
lants of the smoke, or the use of tobacco.”

Dr. Gibbons says: ‘‘Tobacco impairs digestion,
poisons the blood, depresses the vital powers, causes
the limbs to tremble, and weakens and otherwise dis-
orders the heart.”

A new and nameless disease of the heart induced
in young men by cigarette smoking is called by phys-
icians the ‘‘tobacco heart.”

Dr. Willard Parker says that the manufacturers and
users of tobaccco ‘‘cannot recover soon, and in a
healthy manner, from cases of injury or fever. They
are more apt to die in epidemics, and more prone to
apoplexy and paralysis.”

Dr. Hassock makes the use of tobacco one cause
of the ‘‘alarming frequency of apoplexy, palsy, epi-
lepsy, and other diseases of the nervous system.”

From these high medical authorities we learn that
it is a poison fearfully destructive of the nervous sys-
tem, and also assaults the whole citadel of life. No

erson, age, sex or race is exempt from its deadly
work. It is altogether injurious ; to all and always.

2. IT DOES NO GOOD.

It repairs no waste. It furnishes no food. It af-
fords no strength. Hear the voice of science, again,
on this point. A late article in the JouRNAL oF SCcI-
ENCE REVIEW gives us the mischievous results as
shown by many experiments, and sums up as follows :

‘‘Tobacco adds no potential strength to the human frame. Its
work is destruction not construction. It cannot add one molecule

TOBACCO ESSAY. | 15

to the plasm out of which our bodies are builtup. On theconatra-
ry, it exerts upon it a most deleterious influence. It does not sup-
ply, but it diminishes vital force. It hasno food value. Stimu-
lation means abstracted, not added force. It involves the narcotic
paralysis of a part of the functions, the activity of which is es-
sential to a healthy life.” |

And yet we are often met by the remark that ‘‘to-
bacco helps digestion, I don’t eat as much as I did,”
etc.; the very reverse of the facts and logic in the
case. Tobacco prevents digestion, and of couse you
do not therefore call for so much food; but tobacco
jurnishes no part of your needed supply of food.
And while you do not eat as much as you did before
learning to smoke or chew, the reason is apparent ;
- you are losing flesh, strength, vigor and virility. All
the testimony of science and reason are against the
practice. The same writer continues :

“It will be said that tobacco soothes and cheers the weary toiler
and solaces the overworked brain. All such expedients are fal-
lacious. When a certain amount of brain-work or hand-work
has been performed, nature needs time to rest and recuperate, and ©
all such devices for escaping from this necessity will fail. Itis a
bad policy to set the house on fire to warm our hands by the blaze.
Let it then be clearly understood that the temporary excitement
produced by tobacco is gained by the destruction of the vital force
and that it contains absolutely nothing that can be of use to the
tissues of the body.”

The French government directed the Academy of
Medicine to inquire into the influence tobacco has on
the human system. Their report declared that insan-
ity and paralysis were the results of excessive indul-
gence. It acts, said these, the leading medical gen-
tlemen of France, primarily upon the organic ner-
vous system, depressing the faculties, and influencing
the nutrition of the body, the circulation of the blood,
and the number of red corpuscles in the blood. At-
tention was also called to the kad digestion, benumb-

16 PIPE AND QUID.

ed intelligence, and clouded memory of those who
use tobacco to excess.

Many deluded victims of this vice, however, will
offset their own perverted judgment against all the

wisdom, experience and training of these savants of

the profession. Their smoke has befogged their
brains. |

3. TOBACCO ESPECIALLY INJURIOUS TO THE YouNG. A
British physician, observing the large number of boys
under 15 years of age on the street with cigars and
pipes in their mouths, was prompted to examine the
health of this class of smokers, and for that purpose

selected 38 boys between the age of gand 15. In 22.

of these cases he found various disorders of the cir-
culation and digestion, palpitation of the heart and
more or less marked taste for strong drink. In 12
there was frequent bleeding of nose, and 12 had
slight ulceration of the mouth, caused by tobacco.
The doctor treated them for their ailments but with
little effect until the habit of smoking. was discontin-
ued, when health and strength were soon restored,
The effect of tobacco in creating a taste for strong
drinks is unquestionably very great. If the testimo-
ny of some tobacco users and medical men is of any
weight, one of the most radical methods of keeping
the young from being led to intemperate drinking is
to deny them tobacco.

A committee of educators, including the professors
in Ann Arbor, the Normal School, Alma College, the
University of Michigan, and the Hillsdale College,
gave evidence before the Michigan legislature on the
effect of tobacco on the youth of that State. Super-
intendent Howell, of the Lansing school, recently
sent out circulars to the doctors on this subject, and
has received two hundred replies. In every reply one

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or more cases are cited of boys being dwarfed, made
insane, killed or rendered incapable of speech. The
college professors testified that otherwise bright stu-
dents were made dulland stupid by the use of the ci-
garette, and that in many cases the power of hearing
has been seriously affected.

Let these warning notes be sounded in the ear of
all. Parents have a duty here. And yet what re-
proof can a parent give his child while he himself is
indulging in such a sinful, wasteful, suicidal vice !

There is a vast amount of secret vice practiced by
children, of which parents know very little. When
a pastor of the M. E. church ina certain thrifty town,
I was informed of the existence of a club of girls,
from 16 to 20 years of age, called the ‘‘Jolly Five,”
who met to smoke cigarettes and visit with fast young
men. And they were not the children of the alley
and the spawn of theslums! Notatall! But mem-
- bers of the church and Sabbath school. Children af
‘cour leading citizens,’”’ who were foremost in every
christian enterprise and the ‘‘cream of society.” Of
course the revelation of this state of things produced
a sensation. And the simple fact stares us in the face
that the evils and dangers of tobacco using are multi-
plying on every hand. Many would investigate if
they had any suspicions. I write these things to you
as parents to arouse your suspicions. Look care-
fully after your boys and girls. Put good books, facts,
figures and incidents of warning and instruction un-
der their eyes.

Even the ‘‘Organ” of the tobacco trade admits that
‘few things could be more pernicious for boys, grow-
ing youths, and persons of unformed constitutions,
than the use of tobacco in any of its forms.”

CIGARETTES KILLED HIM.
From the EVENING Sun, N..Y.—‘‘On Sunday afternoon, Aug.

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7th, Russell Knevals was found lying dead in his bed by one of
his companions. He was a young man of fine physique, and
seemed to bea splendid example of a vigorous, healthy man. It
was no wonder that his friend thought he was only sleeping when
he saw him in the bed, and it seemed impossible that this young
man, who possessed such strong limbs and deep chest, and had
revealed no signs of illness, could have died a natural death.

‘‘An autopsy this morning has revealed the cause of death.
He was killed by cigarettes. When the surgeons reached the
heart they found that the use of cigarettes had so greatly impair_
ed its functions that it was a feeble organ, and on Sunday its flut-
¢erings produced congestion of the brain, with attendant coma,
causing his death.

‘Young Knevals was an excessive smoker of cigarettes. His
daily allowance was sixty cigarettes, and he plainly was in the
habit of inhaling the smoke. This habit he had begun years ago,
when his organs were still weak and his bodily vigor not attained.

‘Thus daily he absorbed by inhalation deadly drugs, not only
nicotine but opium, cascarilla, and the acid of the paper covering
of the cigarette, and was daily drugging himself to death.

‘‘That the cigarette, as made and used in this country, isa
deadly agent physicians have long known. bi i *

‘‘At a recent examination of candidates for appointment as ca-
dets at West Point every one of the youths was rejected by the
physician, who detected the effect of cigarette smoking upon the
heart. The death of young Knevals ought to bea warning to
those who have acquired this habit, but how many are there who
will heed it ?”’

Is not that a case of suicide? What defense or
excuse can he offer at the judgment bar of God?
What reply can you make—reader? Knowing that
this vice is deadly, are you not guilty of self-murder
by persisting in its use? Why not? And does not
the above newspaper record bear out the teachings of
science? Are not thousands of young men—aye, and
young women too—hurrying their guilty souls down to
a dreadful death, a suicide’s grave, and eternal ruin
by this vile but fashionable folly ? Look about you
and deny it whocan! See the sallow, pinched and

colorless face, as death-like and wan asaspook! How

TOBACCO ESSAY. 19

few clear, bright, rosy-red-cheeked boys do you see
on the street ? Crowding our schools and colleges
like smoked herrings packed in a box, and about as
handsome and lively ! |

4, EVEN THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL ARE SLAVES
1O. IT.

The Rev. John S—, pastor of a New England
church, persisted in the tobacco habit until his ner-
vous system gave way, delirium set in, Declared he
‘must have it or die” After seven years of suffering
he became an imbecile and died afool! Well! some
might think he began the habit as a ‘‘fool,” continued
as a ‘fool,” and ‘‘died as the fool dieth!” And yet
the world seems to be full of two classes ; mankind
and fools, and MOSTLY FOOLS !

Doctor Woodward, superintendent of the insane at
Worcester, agrees in the testimony of many experts
that the tobacco poison is largely responsible for the
insanity which wrecks so many lives, and lays such a
heavy tax on the tax payers to support these sad and
awful institutions.

Miss Dix reports eight cases of tobacco insanity in
one asylum! Dr. Kirkbridge reports four, and Dr.
Lizar five more! What a dreadful report! What
blasted lives and blighted hopes by reason of a filthy,
expensive and foolish habit, for which no man can
offer any excuse or proffer a reasonable apology !

Dr. Jolly, of the French Academy, says: ‘‘As the
tobacco revenues increase, so have insanity, general
and progressive paralysis, softening of the brain and
spinal marrow, and cancerous diseases of the lip and
tongue.”

Professor Bouirson says: ‘Smoking is the most
common cause of cancer of the mouth.” The writer
knew aman who was compelled to go to the hospital

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at Albany, New York, and have his tongue cut out by
reason of a cancer caused by his old pipe. —

TOBACCO RECKONS THE GREAT AND WISE AMONG ITS
VICTIMS. |

Dr. Rush mentions the case of a man in Boston,
who lost all his teeth by smoking.

Like Germany we are becoming A NATION OF
SPECTACLES, and victims to near sightedness, weak
eyes and various affections, producing blindness on
every side. Learned and skilled physicians tell us
they can unfailingly trace the cause in many cases to
smoking tobacco.

Now, my friend, is it wise in you to say, ‘‘oh
fudge !” because some nasty little country Doctor,
with a huge quid in his cheek, recommends you to
use it ‘for corns,” or ‘‘toothe ache,” or ‘‘heartburn ?”
And if you ‘‘use it for medicine,” what kind of a
‘‘medicine” is it, let me ask you, which you must take
two or three dozen times a day, and follow up for
years, and get no better either but rather worse ? Come
now, in all good conscience and honesty, are you not
making this ‘‘medicine talk” all for a sham excuse ?
No physician of any standing or self respect dare ©

deny the facts and authorities quoted by the writer.
But because so many choose to chew the bitter weed,
they also choose to eschew the terrible facts and con-
sequences of it.

The MEpicau TIMES, in 1860, recorded 127 cases of
lips eaten out by tobacco cancers, And it is our pain-
ful duty to call the attention of our readers to the
public fact and public calamity by which our great
and good General and President, U: S. Grant, lost his
life. A tobacco cancer, persistent and incurabée, in
spite of all that medical skill could do, in spite of
wealth and troops of friends, in spite of loving care

TOBACCO ESSAY. 21

and tender nursing—a cancer, caused by the cigar,
cut off this great man’s hfe many years before his al-
lotted time. And this fact ought to be specially im-
pressed upon the young, because for many years Gen-
eral Grant filled a large place in the public mind, his
life and wonderful war record made him almost the
idol of the Union, and his example held a mighty
sway over the nation. To my mind there is no doubt
that his inveterate, persistent and habitual smoking
led thousands: of young men to take up this habit.
And this example was the more injurious because of
‘his moral rectitude in every other walk in life, be-
cause of his personal modesty, and unfailing kindness.
His many and great virtues largely mitigated the evil
nature*and influence of this popular habit, and threw
a glamour over the whole filthy and suicidal business.

It was therefore—perhaps—providential and fitting
that he who had been such a public sinner in this re-
spect should also be a public example of dreadful suf-
fering and certain punishment. Hence, I say, let
those who imitate the General only in this nasty vice,
realize that they shall also reap the consequences.
‘“‘Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoev-
er a man soweth that shall he also reap.” This sick-
ness and death of the great War General and Presi-
dent ought to prove a lesson full of warning to all
who sing the praises of the ‘‘pure Havanna.” No
man is so great and wise that he may not also become
the victim of the most filthy, foolish and deadly hab-
its. If this phase of this subject needed any further
argument it could easily be brought forward. Let
these additional facts be pondered.

Dr. Bartine says: ‘‘It is scarcely possible in the
case of an old smoker to heala syphilitic sore or unite
a broken bone.” |

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Dr. Fenn says: Mild cases of typhoid fever are
often rendered fatal by the use of this poison.

Tobacco so neutralizes the strength of many medi-
cines that physicians are compelled to double the or-
dinary doses. And the symptoms are so complicated
thereby that it puts the patient in increased peril.

Mr. C—, of Plymouth, N. H., was a smoker, chew-
er and snuffer for thirty years. He became nearly
deaf with ringing in beth ears, he could read only with
spectacles, and was apparently near death. He gave
it up at 63 years age and was restored to health.

Dr Cullen mentions several cases where this poison
caused loss of memory, fatuity, and other symptoms
of asenile state of the nervous system, before the
usual period. Iwas personally acquainted with an old
Presiding Elder in the church for many years, who
smoked for a long period without any apparent injury.
But it brought him down at last. In putting wood in
his stove one morning, in as good health, apparently,
as ever he fell to the floor, struck down with paralysis.
He lived along several years, babbling forth broken,
confused and helpless jargon, barely able to make him-
self understood ; a helpless invalid, a broken down
paralyitic, a burden to his family and himself, and so
died.

A Buffalo correspondent of one of our New York
dailies reports the following :

‘‘A case in my own intimate acquaintance has this very week ap-
palled a large circle of friends in this city. The victim was ex-
actly my own years, and a companion from early childhood. For
30 years, at least, he has been adaily smoker of the choicest cigars,
but in all his other habits temperate and regular, and of excellent
constitution—one who, of all men, would have laughed at the sug-
gestion that tobacco was killing him. A week ago last Saturday
night he was stricken with a progressive paralysis characteristic of
nicotine, and on Sunday nignt he died.”

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It will fetch you, brother, in the long run! Count
up the debit and credit. Strike a trial balance sheet
and tell me what it will profit a man to chew a moun-
tain of plug and die in the midst of his years. A ci-
gar has been pithily described as, ‘‘a nasty weed, with
a little fire at one end and a big fool at the other!”

Smoking worse than chewing. Smoking is less
filthy to the user than chewing, but is more injurious
to the health, Dr... Dixon, editor of THE SCALPEL, a
leading medical journal, says, in article strongly con-
demning the use of tobacco in every form :

“Our remarks apply in much more forcible manner to smoking
than to chewing, Some people are so silly as to suppose, because
they do not spit while smoking, that no harm can ensue; but they
should remember that the oil of tobacco, which contains the
deadly nicotine, is volatilized, and circulates with the smoke
through the delicate lining membrane of the mouth at each whiff
of the cigar, and is absorbed by the extensive continuation of this
membrane that lines the nostrils, and acts upon the whole body.
The smoke of tobacco is indeed much more rapid in its stupitfy-
ing effect, as every smoker knows. It is usually called ‘soothing’
by its votaries, but this, of course, is only the first stage of stu-
pification ; it acts precisely as opium or other narcotics do.”’

6. ‘<TOBACCO IN THE FORM OF SNUFF,”
says Dr. Rush, ‘‘seldom fails of impairing the voice by
obstructing the air.” Ata council of physicians held
in London, the question of ‘‘snuff using” came up for
discussion, but it engaged the attention of the coun-
cil for only a few minutes, the discusssion being brok-
en off by the unanimous adoption of a resolution declar-
ing the use of snuff to bea ‘‘useless and pernicious

habit.” |
7. ‘BUT I CAN’T QUIT IT,” YOU SAY !

You can do anything you ought to do. You can
do what hundreds have done. Conquer the filthy de-
mon. Banish the degrading habit. Set yourself at
it and seek grace and help from God and you can

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overcome it. Let the testimonies of the many
thousands who have quit it forever—some of them
advanced in years—assist you. Said James Parton,
the historian, who was a slave to the practice for thir-
ty years, and whe heroically broke from his chains on
the instant of his resolution todoso: I have less
headache, I enjoy exercise more, and step out much
more vigorously. My room is cleaner, I think I am
better tempered, as well as more cheerful and satis-
fied. JI endure the inevitable ills of life with more
fortitude, and look forward more hopefully to the
coming years. It did not pay to smoke, but it decid-
edly pays to stop smoking.” |

John Quncy Adams, President and Statesman: ‘‘In
my early youth I was addicted to the use of tobacco
in two-of its mysteries—smoking and chewing. I was
warned by a medical friend, (reader have you no such
friend indeed?) of the pernicious operation of this
habit upon the stomach and nerves, and the advice of
the physician was fortified by the results of my own
experience. More than thirty years have passed away
since I deliberately renounced the use of tobacco in
all its forms; and although the resolution was not
carried into execution without a struggle of vitiated
nature, I never yielded to its impulses, and in the
space of three or four months of self denial, they lost
their stimulating power, and I have never since felt it
aS aprivation. I have often wished that every indi-
vidual of the human race afflicted with this artificial
appetite, could prevail upon himself to try, but for
three months the experiment which I have made, feel-'
ing sure that it would turn every acre of tobacco land
into a wheat field, and add five years to the longevity
to the average of human life.”

Now I want to ask every candid reader, Do not the

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foregoing facts and evidences comprise a powerful
argument against this evil habit? Are not all the
sound reasons against the indulgence of this loathsome
practice? Can you find an excuse for it which is in
the least a plausible pretext for a christian man or a
gentleman? For it certainly is not christian like or
gentlemanly. When General Morris returned from
France he was asked by a nasty, smoking minister of
the gospel, if gentlemen smoked in France. ‘‘Sir”
replied the Governor, ‘‘gentlemen smoke nowhere!”
And certainly it is repugnant to our highest ideals of |
good manners, good breeding, and pure christianity.
None of us could for one moment associate this bar-
barous, degrading vice with the pure sweet manliness

of jesus of Nazareth! No! Jesus Christ could
never have been guilty of such a selfish and polluting
practice.

8. THE EXCUSES FOR THIS APPETITE ARE ALWAYS
TRIVIAL.

They are easily answered. The evil effects are so
many, so evident, the benefits so utterly false and un-
founded, that, like intoxicating liquors, the only safe
and reasonable plan is total abstinance.

It is dissagreeable to your friends, a nuisance to
your family, a bad example to your children, a seri-
ous damage to your home, health, holiness and hap-
piness. Its most charitable friends and worshipful
-votaries admit that it is useless if not positively injur-
ious, and there are thousands who regret that they |
ever acquired the appetite. I have never been able
to find one, among many to whom I put the question,
that did not regret having acquired the practice.
But the only relief is the prompt and determined
abandonment of tobacco in every form and for all
time.

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Q. THE APPETITE OFTEN BECOMES HEREDITARY.

One of the most alarming facts brought out is the
hereditary influence of this indulgence. The evil
etfects of the habit are sometimes slightly seen in the
parents, but are manifest in the children. Not only
the appetite, but disease and physical weakness con-
sequent upon it, are transmitted to the children.
This fact, well authenticated, should awaken thought-
ful consideration on the part of parents who are
addicted to the habit. What a heritage to bequeath
to your sweet, helpless, innocent babe! What has
he done that you should fill the delicate organism of
his fair young life with the untimely seeds of weak-
ness, decay and death? Do you seek to be repre-
sented in the next generation by a pale, puny, litle
stripling, dwarfed and stunted in mind, body and soul
by this accursed poison? Do you feel honored in
walking around among men leading by the hand a
poor, little tottering imbecile, shakey on his legs,
husky in his throat, yellow in the face, his eyes run-
ning red with sores, and ail the symptoms of prema-
ture decay stamped upon his wretched little exist-
ence? Ofcourse many such are to be found in infancy
with a natural inbred appetite for this deadly narcotic.
And as soon at they are able to trot out into the
streets and pick up the stubs or beg a ‘‘chaw-er ter-
baccer,” they will of necessity begin the nasty soul
and body destroying practice which will blast their
whole career. Instead of growing up strong and rug-.
ged, rosy and hondsome, these 14-year-old victims of
a popular vice, and followers of an almost universal

custom, will become saturated with the fumes and ~

juice of this terrible drug, acquire a sodden dirty-yel-
low hue, become dwarfed in intellect, lose the power

TOBACCO ESSAY, 27

of memory, run riot in the streets, grow up ina feeble
shiitless state of loaferism and vagabondage, dull,
stupid, ignorant; to be a nuisance to all about him, a
charge on the country, and fill a premature grave.
Any man with his eyes open can see just such wrecks
of humanity all about him. And what a cruel bless-
ing itis for you to father such an appetite with all
these fearful consequences upon yourchild! Lifethus
handicapped from infancy is more a curse than a
blessing. —

IO. IT DESTROYS VIRILITY.

THE SCALPEL, the medical journal previously quoted,
‘says: ‘‘So far are we from doubting its power over
the moral and physical welfare of the race, that we
have not a doubt that it has infinitely more to do with
the physical imperfection and early death of the chii-
dren of its votaries, than its great associate, drunk-
enness itself.

The deficiency of virile power in many instances of
long continued smokers, is very marked. Every sur-
geon of experience must have observed it. The local
surgical and medical treatment most effective in these
cases proves conclusively that it is to the debilitating
and exhausting iufluence of tobacco that these sad
consequences are due.” What volcanic fires lie
smoking under these facts? ‘‘The iniquity of the
father is visited upon by the children of the third and
fourth generation.” And the terrible power of this
poison is seen in the total destruction of the repro-
ductive functions. Do you realize, my friend, that
these are the cold, calm, deduction of medical science !
To poison yourself and with this drug is to slowly
consume your manly powers, destroy virility or beget
sickly children, in whom, perchance, will soon utterly
perish all manly and human virtues. It does seem to

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me that all you need is to know these appalling facts,
to bring you to total abstinance now and forever. I
must give you the credit to believe that with these
conclusions of reason and science before you, this
filthy god will never again receive a burnt offering of
incense at your hands! i

Dr. Adam Clark is quoted as saying: ‘If I were
to offer a sacrifice to Satan, it would be a dead hog
stuffed with tobacco.”

Those who know much of the devil, must believe
the sacrifice would be quite acceptable. ip

A writer in Blackwood’s Magazine estimates the 5
whole amount of tobacco grown upon the face of the
globe at four thousand millions of pounds, and a close
estimate shows that the world’s tobacco crop costs,
directly, at least one thousand million dollars annually.
To this must be added the loss of the land on which
it is grown, and of the thousands of persons engaged
in its cultivation, manufacture and sale. The wealth
producing power of both land and men is /os¢, because
the product of their toil does not add wealth to the coun-
try, or increase the nations power of producing wealth.
Besides this the effect of tobacco growing is to im-
poverish the soil. Gen. John H. Cook, of Virginia,
says, ‘‘Tobacco exhausts the land beyond all other
crops. Asa proof of this every homestead from the
Atlantic border to the head of tidewater is a mourn-
ful monument. It has been the besom of destruction
which has swept over this fertile region.” |

A WORD TO TOM FILTHYWEED UPON SOME PROBLEMS
IN COMPOUND INTEREST FOR HIS HONEST THOUGHT: Few
people realize the waste of tobacco money when con-
sidered in the light of compound interest. Tom! sit
down and carefully figure up the loss of a few cents
per day through a number of years. Take the fol-

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lowing example of aman who consumes one dollar
a week, or four dollars a month, or fifty dollars a
year, at five per cent interest, compounded annually,
and you will be amazed at the enormous results.

Suppose, Tom, you begin at 20 years of age to use
tobacco at the average rate of $50 a year: This is
much more than many use, and much less than many
use. Perhaps it is as near the. average as we can
estimate—for it is a common thing for men to spend
two to five dollars a week in this costly indulgence.

On this estimate for a basis, at thirty years of age,
Tom, you have chewed or smoked $710.89. That
would be a pretty nice little capital for any young man at
thirty to have snugly invested at interest at five percent,
and this any young man like yourself, Tom, can easily
do, and the saving is a blessing to yourself in decency,
cleanliness and economy.

At 35 you would have $1,200 in the bank ; at 4o
$1,800, or during those five years, Tom Fuilthyweed,
your indulgence has cost you $600 and your annual
loss averages over one hundred dollars a year. The
interest on your wasted money is now double the ex-
pense of your annual cigar bill of $50. At 45 years
of age your bank account would be $2,550, and
the outgo of waste is now $180 per year, that is your
interest account, $130, added to tobacco bill, $50,
amounts to $180, which is a serious waste for a man
in his prime.

At 50 the bill rolls up to $3,600, the annual loss to $230.

66 55 6 66 4,850, 6s 66 300.
| té 60 sé ‘6 6, 460, 6 €6 yas
6 65 ce ce 8,520, 6é im; 475.
‘6 70 sé ‘6 £1, FOO, 6 66 580.

These are startling figures, Tom!
You perhaps have never had your attention called
to them, but here they are staring you out of this

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page. Look atthem honestly, earnestly and seriously,
and tell me, my boy, if you are ready to throw away
a fortune of $10,000 in the next fifty years. Lay bya
dollar a week and when you are old and worn out you
will have a nice income; nearly $400 a year at 60;
nearly $600 a year at 70; and how small the sacrifice,
how slight the discomfort and how grand the results
of this self denial! Notice, Tom, in the above table
that your bill of wasteful indulgence amounts to a
thousand dollars every three years after you are 4o.

And of course the waste is much greater when the
basis of expense is enlarged.

Now, what young man cannot practice a little self
denial and economy on his luxuries and needless ex- —
penditures, and at 40 years of age have $2000 in life
insurance, or savings bank, or real estate, or mort-
gages, amply provided for the future contingencies of
sickness, misfortune or old age?

And how foolish, not to say wicked, are the complaints
you make, Tom, at ‘‘hard times,” ‘poor luck,” ‘ow
salary,” etc., when you are selfishly enslaved toa filthy
hahit which is squandering an independent fortune!
What consolation and sympathy can you expect of an
economical people, clean and decent, prosperous and
happy without this habit? If you come in your old
age to poverty, rags and wreck; a broken down and
nasty old pauper in the poor house, teeth gone, nerves
shaking with tobacco palsy, haggard and forlorn,
without a dolar or a friend in the world, pray tell me,
Tom Fuilthyweed, whose fault is it?

CHAPTER IV.
A NUISANCE TO THE HOME,

“Tf I had a yellow dog, a bandy-legged cur, that
chewed tobacco, I’d shoot him! Wouldn’t you?”

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«J would not have a dog abusing the coal hod and
the woed box the way you do—wouldn’t have him
about the house a week!” ‘I would not clean up
after your dog if he defiled the kitchen floor and
stunk up the house as you do with your old pipe and
quid. I’d sell him, or failing that, give him away, or
if I could not get anybody to take the nasty curas a gift,
I’d give a small boy two bits to tie a stone to his neck
and throw him into the mill pond. Wouldn’t you?
And pray tell me, you nasty Methodist, you dirty
Christian, what better is your tobacco filth as a nuis-
ance than a dog of like nuisance would be? You
don’t relish the idea of being called a dog or likened toa
beast, and yet when you goto church and spit tobacco
juice upon the floor and throw your quid under the seat
you do that no dog ever did. The very zwstincts of a
beast teach him the dangerous nature of this poison.
What’s the matter with your ‘‘instincts,” sir? And
when you go out of church to-night just take your
cud along home with you. There is not a low-down,
mangy cur in town will pick up the quid or stub you
left behind you. It looks to some people as though
you are much more filthy and degraded than any beast
you ride or drive. You call yourself a gentleman,
and yet not a dog in town cultivates the most promi-
nent, expensive and offensive of your gentlemanly
graces, the cultivated and acquired power to masti-
cate tobacco. What a noble and intellectual accom-
plishment! What profound scholarship and masterly
powers it betokens! Thus to seccure the pre-emi-
nence over all the brute and animal creation in this
nasty, stupifying self-abuse. For old men and little
boys are the oz/y bipeds or quadrupeds you ever see
poking around the gutters after quids and stubs. Al
the higher animal creation utterly reject them. I don’t

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know but I ought partially to make one or two excep-
tions.

There is one biped, one guadruped and one hexapod that
eats tobacco.

The hexapod is a long green worm that feeds upon
the green herb as it grows in the field, but never known
to chew plug or smoke a pipe. The farmers who raise
tobacco are laboriously employed in killing these
worms, which would otherwise soon make the market
very ‘‘short.””, The worm kills the tobacco, the far-
mer kills the worm and the tobacco kills the farmer.
Its a killing business all around. A lady evangelist
in Vermont used to say, ‘‘The Devil invented tobacco
because the Bible says the mustard seed is the small-
est of all seeds, and the tobacco seed is smaller
than the mustard; hence the Devil, (not the Lord,)
created tobacco. I won’t contend her logic.

The one guadruped which chews tobacco is a filthy
Australian goat, I am told, the only species that does.
I cannot vouch for this, but I fancy the Bible hints
at something of this kind when it says the day of
judgment shall divide the sheep from the goats. And
as sheep do not chew tobacco, and the only species
of brute that does is the goa/, I must infer there will
be no tobaccoin heaven to chew. The ‘‘goats” will
have to go to hell to find their favorite cud. Perhaps
this explains why so many sinners call their own
boys ‘‘kids.” And by the way, my nasty Christian
brother! my foul-mouthed Methodist! when you ask
me if aman cannot be a Christian and go to heaven
and chew tobacco too, I just want to ask you if you
think you will be permitted to take a cargo of spit-
toons along and slide them out from under the seat
as you do in your churches here? Or do you think
you will go around the New Jerusalem spattering

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your filthy juices upon the golden streets? Or doyou
think your patient little wife will be an eternal slave
to your nastiness, following you all around heaven
with a mop and water to clean after you as she does
here? No! No! my friend. I think the good Lord
will abate ¢Aa¢ nuisance ¢here which is such a nuisance
here, and give that wife of yours an eternal rest from
all that kind of athing. I don’t think heaven would
be much of an attraction to many of us if we had to
take the trip in a smoking car with the kind of a
crowd you like.

No, brother! The Good Shepherd will separate
the ‘‘sheep” from the ‘‘goats,” and the ‘‘sheep” do
not chew that cud.

The one ‘‘biped” that chews tobacco is called ‘‘man,”
though I hardly feel willing to callssuch a filthy slave
a ‘‘man.” God made man for a better purpose than to
follow disgusting and wicked vices which the whole
animal creation abhor and reject. And I feel like
begging the pardon of my brute neighbors for calling
him a biped. Fora monkey isa biped, and he will
mot touch it. He is not as big a fool as he looks—
not so foolish as some other bipeds. The one tobacco-
eating biped is not a stork. To be sure the stork
wades in the swamps and feeds on frogs, lizards,
snakes and such, but these are dainties compared to
tobacco—fresh, sweet, healthful food compared to
pipe and quid and stub. Ah! ho! here comes the to-
bacco-eating dude. Two whiffs of his breath will
stench the whole room. You may nose him before
he takes his seat. Of this he appears entirely uncon-
scious; he will give you the full force of his lungs.
He desires to speak with you alone; hold your breath.
Say your say shortly—anything to be rid of him and
his fumes, narcotic stench and yellow droolings down
his chin,

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And when he opes his mouth to utter pleasing
speech you behold a cavern yawning wide, with rag-
ged stumps all oozing out with slime, and from his
foggy throat a husky sound proceeds. If it were not
so common it would be an insult to approach a man
with such manner of mouth and voice. Your eyes
and ears and nose all take offense at the uncanny and
loathsome affront to decency. ‘‘I have been followed,”
writes a physician, ‘‘around a large office table, back-
ing continually to escape the nuisance, till Ihad made
a revolution or two before my motion was perceived.”
In this connection the following story will serve to
point a moral and adorn the tale:

‘Dominie H.was one of the old-time circuit riders, whose
rough exterior and somewhat non-society ways often obscured his
real goodness of heart. One day he was caught in a shower in
Illinois, and going to a rude cabin near by, he knocked at the
door. A sharp-logking old dame answered his summons. He
asked for shelter. ‘I don’t know you,’ she replied, suspiciously.
‘Remember the Scriptures,’ said the dominie, ‘be not forgetful to
entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.’ ‘You needn’t say that,’ quickly returned the other, ‘no
angel would come down here with a big quid of tobacco in his
mouth.’ She shut the door in his face, leaving the good man to
the mercy of the rain and his own reflections.”

CHAE TER. 7 ¥..
A HINDRANCE TO HOLINESS.

Tobacco in all forms becomes a question of trouble
to the conscience to every true and devout christian.
Of course there is no specific reference to it by name
in the old or new Testaments. It was altogether un-
known to the ancient and civilized nations. It has
been used by savages from the earliest times, It is
used by savages to-day. The men who use it are
Savages, or very near akin to the nasty, smoky, wig-
wam people. So it is very hard to look upon a man

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as a consistent follower of Christ while he indulges in
this filthy idolatry. Jesus, whom the christians wor-
ship, is far removed from all that is filthy, poisonous,
selfish and disgusting to other people. And when
Paul says ‘‘Dearly beloved! let us cleanse ourselves
of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit”—(2 Cor., 7-1.)
We cannot but feel that the Lord and St. Paul would,
without doubt, include this filthy practice as the worst
of ‘‘all filthiness.”

And'when the Holy Word teaches us that ‘‘Our bod-
ies are the temple of the Holy Ghost,” surely to pol-
lute these temples is an insult to the cleansing, sanc-
tifying, Holy Spirit. <‘If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy,” is the solemn warn-
ing of the word of God. What possible habit could
be more filthy or defiling? Who will deny this? And
how any man can compose his conscience with such
scripture thundered in his ears is more than I can under-
stand. It can only be explained on the ground of the
fact that tobacco has a peculiarly stupzfying power over
the conscience. ‘This I consider its greatest damage to
the church of Christ. To sum up:

It benumbs all instincts of courtesy and decency.

It destroys one’s regard for the nerves and tastes of others.
It deadens the convictions of conscience and duty.

It throws a torpor over the soul’s aspiration for God.

It quiets the calls of the spirit to holiness of heart and life.

The following by Rev. J. M. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate, so fully meets my views at this
point that I give the quotation entire:

Q. 279. a. Is the use of tobacco consistent with true Chris-
tianity?

b. Canaman experience the blessings of holiness of heart
until he has given up the habit of using tobacco, or retain the
blessing if he resumes the habit?

A. a. Many most excellent men have used tobacco; many

who were greatly blessed of God, in their own experience and in

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36 PIPE AND QUID.

the conversion of souls; many who furnished the best evidence of
piety, and died in holy triumph. If they used it believing it to
be wrong, their experience must have been very unfavorably af-
fected by it. If they believed it to be right, they must have failed
to study the subject in allits relations. It is not a proof that a
man is not a Christian because he thinks it right to use tobacco.
If it is, there are no Christians; for where can the man be found
whose judgment is not in error on one or more points?

b. No mancan experience the blessing of holiness of heart
who has not an intense desire to know the truth; an intense desire

to be in condition to do the greatest good to all; an entire willing-
ness to practice every form of self-denial, and a perfect consecra-
tion of every power to the service of God. In the present age,
with all the light thrown on the use of tobacco, and with the cer-
tainty that its use will diminish a man’s influence, it is improbable,
if not impossible, that a man can be ina state to receive the
blessing of entire sanctification and use tobacco. We have known
a woman who was a confirmed pipe-smoker to ask the privilege of
addressing a preacher’s meeting on entire sanctification. At the
ciose we moved the appointment of a committee of three to con-
sider the compatibility of pipe-smoking with entire sanctification.
The venerable woman said ‘‘that it had given her a great deal of
trouble, she had tried to quit, and had left it to the Lord.” Also,
we have been exhorted on this subject by a minister in private
conversation, whose articulation was rendered indistinct: whose
breath was polluted, and whose lips were _ stained by
tobacco. Though not uttered, the words ‘‘Physician, heal
thyself !’’ came to our lips. Upon full view of the subject, we
must think that the presumptions are against the genuine-
ness of the experience of the person who professes entire sanctifi-
cution and uses tobacco,

Q. 280. What do you think of the appointment of a man as
presiding elder who uses tobacco? If the men who now come into
our conferences must abstain from the use of tobacco, is it just
the right thing to have presiding elders who will tempt and tan-
ialize by the use of the weed those who dare not use it? The
question is not whether thenew ruleis a wise one, but whether men
who use tobacco should be made presiding elders—is it fair?

A. Isit asin to use tobacco? If so presiding elders ought not
to do it.' Is it an indiscretion disqualifying a man for the minis-
try? Presiding elders ought not to do it. There is no rule against
its use by bishops, or presiding elders, or elders or laymen. But
candidates must be asked the question about it. Should theeccle-
siastical superior do what the candidate should not? Can man
sin himself into a state of justification? But must aman be er-
fect in all things to bea presiding elder? Suppose a man admir-
ably adapted for the office in all things, but the fact that heisa
‘victim of tobacco, should that disqualify him? He who would
‘Say yes, would rule out three fourths of all the presiding elders
the church has every had, and several of its most efficient bish-

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eps. The editor of the Christian Advocate voted against the new
question because he saw the inconsistency of allowing bishops,
‘presiding elders and elders, and local preachers, stewards, trust-
ees, and class-leaders and private members to do a thing, and for-
bidding the candidates the privilege; and saw that a bishop, per-
haps, who used the weed might have to ask a question, and a
presiding elder who used it might have to warn candidates not to
do so; and because of the incongruity of closing a solemn series
of the most searching and spiritual questions with one certain to pr-
duce more or less levity; and because of the temptation to insin-
cerity which such a question occasions. It is so common to
charge a man who differs from another on a question of this kind
with using the article, that we must give our creed and practice
on the subject: 1. Tobacco used for nine years did us more phys-
ical and mental harm than any other error in diet into which we
ever fell. 2. We used it till we had been in the ministry three
monihs, when we were asked with what propriety we could urge
men to deny themselves the gratification of their lusts when
yielding to our appetite for tobacco; and how we could pretend
that the Holy Spirit could give strength to resist every tempta-
tion when we acknowledged that we could not stop the use of to-
bacco. We found that boys and young men were quoting our
example to their parents in justification of smoking and chewing,
and that men who used ale and wine asked us if we we did not
smoke and chew for the same reason that they used these drinks,
because of the pleasure derived. Convinced of the impropriety
and undesirableness, and (for us) the sinfulness of the practice,
we quitit, and for twenty-three years have not touched it, and have
induced many to give up the practice. Yet, regarding the new
question as open to the objection suggested, we could not consci-
entiously vote for it, and see the inconsistency mentioned in the
above inquiry.

Question 278. Is a Christian man, who believes the use of fo-
bacco to be sinful, justified in remaining as an employee in a gro-
cery house where tobacco is held for sale?

Answer. All that an inteiligent Christian man can rationally
believe is that it is sinful for him to use tobacco who believes it to
be sinful. The use of tobacco is not essentially sinful. If a man
believes that tobacco injures his health, weakens his moral tone,
is an unjustifiable expenditure of money, diminishes his influence
for good, to him it is sinful. And the same would be true of tea
and coffee. These things come under the principles laid down by
St. Paulin Rom. xiv, 5, 23. Articles of merchandise can be sold
to persons of intelligence, when there is no reason to presume a
criminal intent, on the responsibility of the purchaser. Many
things are sold as groceries which, with our views, it would be
sinful for us to use. But we are not to judge those who do use
them. Nor are we to enforce our notions upon customers. If
the use of tobacco were like that of rum, certain to be attended
in many cases, and liable to be attended in any case, by the great-
est physical, mental, moral and social evils, involving violation of
God's laws and the destruction of a hope of salvation, besides the

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infliction of irreparable calamities upon the innocent, its sale, ex-
cept under restrictions, as by apothecaries and chemists, would
be removed from this category, and come under the condemnation
of ‘‘partaking of other men’s sins.” In answer to the question,
then, we say that it is: not improper fora Christian man, who
thinks it sinful for him to use tobacco to remain as an employee
in a grocery sture, or to be proprietor of a grocery store in which
tobacco is held for sale, unless he esteems it to be sinful so toremain;
or, after the best thought and prayer he can give, he doubts
whether it be right remain in such grocery store. In that case he
could not conscientiously do so. But we have no doubt that St.
Paul never contemplated such a refinement of conscience.

CHAPTER (va:
TESTIMONIES FROM ITS VICTIMS.

In the following chapter I simply give the plain ac-
count of individual experiences, under this fearful
bondage. Hundreds of pages might be filled with —
similar narratives. These testimonies without giving
the names of some which we have no right to do, are
truthful, correct and actual events. There is no need
of drawing upon the immagination or seeking the
realms of fiction for dreadful pictures of the sad end-
ings of wretched lives under the bondage of this vice.
The simple story of these ‘‘Witnesses” from actual
experience can be duplicated by the reader in half the
men he meets on the street. Not one of them will
deny the facts and feelings, symptoms and sufferings
here set forth.

I trust and pray their testimony may be of value
and warning, as well as encouragement to be rid of ©
this crueltyrant. These testimonies come from every
range of life, Scholars, Journalists, Poets, Authors,
Generals, Physicians, Ministers and Statesmen.
Their opinions are of value and weight in the world
of intellect.. Hence in this chapter, I desire to call
attention to a valuable contribution to this topic which
the reader who desires further light would do well to
secure. It is entitled:

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THINKING, DRINKING AND SMOKING.

STUDY AND STIMULANTS; or THE US# OF INTOXICANTS AND NAR-
COTICS IN RELATION TO INTELLECTUAL LIFE. As illustrated by
personal communications on the subject from men of letters and
of science. Edited by A. ARTHUR READE, 12mo, pp.201. Philadel-
phia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. Manchester, Abel, Heywood & Son.

The editor of this little volume has made a contribution both

interesting and valuable to the study of effects of stimulants upon
mental activity. He has taken pains to collect personal opinicns
and experiences from men distinguished in literature and science,
and has thereby arrived at conclusions which ought to be service-
able to thinkers. These conclusions are as follows: (1) That
alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. (2)
That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from
both stimulants. (3) That those who have tried both modera-
tion and total abstinence find the latter the more healthfal prac-
tice. (4) That almost every brain-worker would be the better
for abstinence. (5) That the most absiruce calculations may be
made and the most laborious mental work performed without arti-
ficial stimulus. (6) That all work done under the influence of
alcohol is unhealthy work. (7) That the only pure brain stimu-
lants are external ones—fresh air, cold water, walking, riding and
other out-door exercises.

Not one of the eminent men whose letters Mr. Reade prints has

_tesorted to alcohol for inspiration as stimulus to thought.

THE GREATEST ENGLISHMAN.

Mr. Giadstone has always abstained from the use of very strong
and fiery stimulants, and smoking he detests.

A MODERN PHILOSOPHER,

It is worth noting, that when Littre, the French philosopher,
felt the strain upon his system produced by continuous thought,
he repaired his natural forces with doses of fruit, jelly or jam,
pots of which he kept conveniently at hand in his study. The
late Professor Charles Darwin’s theory hardly accorded with his
practice in the matter of alcohol. ‘‘I drink a glass of wine daily,”
he wrote in February of last year, when he was seventy-three years
old, ‘‘and believe I should be better without any, though all doc-
tors urge me to drink wine, as I suffer much from giddiness. I
have taken snuff all my iife, and regret that I ever acquired the
habit, which I have often tried to leave off, and have succeeded
for a time.”’

A HARVARD PROFESSOR. |

Oliver Wendell Holmes holds much the same opinions. He
prefers an entirely undisturbed and unclouded brain for mental
work, unstimulated by anything stronger than tea or coffee, unaf-
fected by tobacco or other drugs. ‘‘His faculties are the best
under his control in the forenoon, between breakfast and lunch.
He does not habitually use any drink stronger than water. He
has no peremptory rule, having no temptation to indulgence, but

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approaching near to abstinence as he grows older. He does not
believe that any stimulus is of advantage to a healthy student.

AN ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER.

John Stuart Mill never used tobacco; Dr. Bain finds abstinence
from alcohol and tea essential to intellectual effort; they induce a
false excitement not compatible with severe © application to prob-
lems of difficulty.

CHE BRITISH SCLENPiIS(:

While Professor Tyndall does not think that any general rule
can be laid down, he is of the opinion that that man is -happiest
who is so organized as to be abie to dispense with the use of alco-
hol and tobacco. Some powerful thinkers, he says, are very con-
siderable smokers, while other poweriul thinkers would have been
damaged, if not ruined by the practice; and a similar remark
applies to alcohol.

THE GREAT RUSSIAN NOVELIST.

M. Tourgueneff uses neither tobacco nor alcohol, and his ob-
servations on other people have led him to the conclusion that
tobacco is generally a bad thing, and that alcohol taken in very
small quantities can produce a good effect 1n some cases of con-
stitutional debility. As for Mr. Ruskin, he thinks that tobacco is
a very bad thing; he abhors, indeed, the practice of smoking, his
dislike of it being based mainly upon his belief that a cigar or
pipe will very often make a man content to be idle for any length
of time who would not otherwise be so.

THE POPULAR ENGLISH NOVELIST,

Mr. Chas. Reade expresses decided opinions in the matter of
tobacco. ‘‘I tried to smoke five or six times, but it always made
me heavy and rather sick; therefore, as it is not a necessary of
life, and costs money, and makes me sick, I spurned it from me.
I have never felt the want of it. I have seen many people the
worse for it. I have seen many people apparently none the worse
for it. I mever saw any person perceptibly the better for it.

AN AMERICAN NOVELIST.

Mr. W. D. Howells, never uses tobacco, except in a rare self-
defensive cigarette when a great many other people are smoking,
and he commonly drinks water at dinner. When he takes wine
he thinks it weakens his work, and his working force the next day.

M. TAINE, THE FRENCH CRITIC WRITES.

All that I can say isthat I have never made use of alcoholin any
form as an essential stimulant. Coffee suits me much better.
Alcohol, so far as I can: judge, is good only as a physical stimu-
lant after great physical fatigue, and even then it should be taken
in very small quantities. As for tobacco, I have the bad habit of

TOBACCO ESSAY. AI

smoking cigarettes, and find them useful between two ideas—when
I have the first, but have not arrived at the second; but I do not
regard them as a necessity. It is probable that there is a little di-
version produced at the same time, a little excitement and exhil-
eration. But every custom of this kind becomes tyrannical, and
the observations which accompany your letters are very judicious.

THE UNION WAR GENERAL.

General Grant’s testimony in regard to tobacco has the merit of
coming from one whose knowledge of the subject is thorough.
He has found its efficacy great as a narcotic. He once told Dr.
Beard that if disturbed during the night or worried about any-
thing so that he could not sleep he could induce sleep by getting
up and smoking ashort time. Why he smoked in the day time
the General did not say.

(The General’s cancer was a fearful price to pay
for the fleeting pleasures of narcotic dreams. See
Chapter If for more on this topic. B. 5. T.)

A MODERN ASTRONOMER.

The Abbe Moigno, the French astronomer, con-
tributes a letter entertaing in more ways than one:

I can hardly offer myself as an example, because my constitu-
tion israther too exceptional, but my experience may have some
degree of usefulness. I have already published 150 volumes,
small and great. I scarcely ever leave my writing table. I never
take a walk, nor even recreation, after meals; and yet havenot felt
any headache, constipation, or any derangement in the urinary or-
gans. I have never had occasion to have recourse to stimulants,
coffee, alcohol, tobacco, etc., in order to work, or to obtain clear-
ness of mind. On thecontrary, stimulants give rise in my case to
abnormal vibrations in the brain, which are adverse to its quick
and regular working.

Several times in my life I fell into the habit of taking snuff. It
is a fatal habit, dirty to begin with, since it puts a cautery to the
nose, filth in the pocket, is extremely unwholsome; for he who
takes snuff finds his nose stopped up, every morning, his breath-
ing difficult, his voice harsh and snuffling, because the action of
tobacco consists in drawing the humors to the brain; fatal at last,
because the use of snuff weakens and destroys, by degrees, the
memory. This last effect is fully proved by my own professional
experiences, and that of many others.

I learned twelve foreign languages by the method I published
in my ‘‘Latin For All”; that is to say, I draw up the catalogue of
I,500 or 1,800 radical or primitive simple words, and engraved
them upon my mind by means of muemonic formulas. In that
way I had learned about 41,500 words. whose meaning is gener-
ally, or most frequently, without connection with the word itself,
and from 10,000 to 12,000 historical facts, with their precise date.
All this existed simultaneously in my mind, always at my dispos-

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al when I wanted the meaning of a word or the date of an event.
If any one asked me who was the twenty-fifth king of England,
for instance, Isawin my brain that it was Edward, surnamed
Plantagenet, who ascended the throne in 1154. With respect to
philology or chronology, I was the most extraordinary man of my
time, and Arago jokingly threatened to have me burnt like a
wizard. ButI had again fallen into the practice of snuff-taking
during a stay of some weeks in Munich, where I spent my even-
ings in a smoking-room with the learned Bavarians, each of whom
ate four or five meals a day, and drank two or three jugs of beer.
The most illustrious of these learned men, Steinhein, boasted of
smoking 6,000 cigars a year. I aitained to smoking three or four
cigars aday. While drawing up my treatise on the Calculus of
Variations, the most difficult of my mathematical treatises, I
unconsciously empted my snufi-box, which contained twenty-five
grammes (nearly an ounce) of snuff; and one day I was painfully
surprised to find that I was obliged to have recourse to my dic-
tionary for the meaning of foreign words. I found that the dates
of the numerous facts I had learnt by heart had failen from my
mind. Such a thing has rarely or seldom happened before. Dis-
tressed at this sorrowful decay of my memory I made a heroic
resolution which nothing has disturbed since. On the rst of
August, 1863, I smoked three cigars and used twenty-five cen-
times (244d.) worth of snuff; from the following day to June, 1882
I have neither taken a pinch of snuff nor smoked a single ciga-
rette.

It was for me a complete resurrection, not only of memory but
of general health and well-being. It was only necessary for me
to do what I did eighteen years later—to lessen nearly one-half
the quantity of food which I took every day, to eat less meat and
more vegetables, to obtain such incomparable health, of which it
is hardly possible to form any idea, unlimited capacity of labor,
periect digestion, absence of wrinkles, pimples; and I beg leave to
affirm that those who tread in my footsteps will be as sound as I
am. Add to this the habit, irrevocably established, of never say-
ing I shal/ do, nor I am doing, but I have done, and you have the
secret of the enormous amount of work I have been able to ac-
complish, and am accomplishing every day, in spite of my eighty
years. No one will dispute me the honor of being the greatest
hard-working man of my century.

I ought, finally, to add that I find it well for me to take at
breakfast a small half-cup of coffee without milk, to which, when
only two or three teaspoonfuls remain at the bottom of the cup, I
add a small spoonful of brandy or other alcoholic liquor. That
is my whole allowance of stimulants. How happy would those
be who should adopt my 7egzme. They would be able, without
harm, to sit at their desk immediately after breakfast and to stay
there till dinner-time. No sooner would they be in bed, at about
9g o'clock, but they would be softly asleep a few minutes later, and
could rise at 5 in the morning, full of strength, after a ncurishing
sleep of eight hours.

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TOBACCO ESSAY. 43

CONCLUSION.

Mr. Reade sets forth in a concluding essay many wise and
agreeable reflections on the matter which he has so judiciously
edited. He thinks it unsafe to make one man’s experience an-
other man’s guide; but his readers will assuredly lay down his
pleasant volume with the conviction that while stimulants may
soothe and sustain the physical system they have little to say to
profound thought or high inspiration.

ANOTHER TOBACCO CURE.

One more cure may be noted in the way of encouragement—
that of aman who was enslaved from ten to twenty-two... Ex-
cepting at meal times and when asleep, tobacco was always in
his mouth. He realized that he was killing himself. Thirst,
emaciation, lung and brain difficulties, were the fruits of tobacco
intoxication. ‘‘On June 7 I commenced to live without the vile
weed. On that day I actually suffered pain, was compelled to
moisten my throat with water every half hour, else a burning
thirst would make me miserable. I kept my resolution and the
next day felt decidedly better; thirst lessened, food tasted better,
and hopes of the future made me cheerful and happy. Each day
found me gradually improving, and now months have passed. I
have gained several pounds in weight, my respiration has im-
proved, my complexion is better, my strength augmented, and
my condition has elicited encouraging remarks from my friends.”

CHAPTER. VEL

“Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate and touch not
the unclean thing, and J will be a father to you—saith the Lord
Almighty.’’

PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS.

I have thus set forth as tersely as possible my im-
peachment of Tobacco as the mental, physical and
spiritual tyrant and enemy of man.

In this closing chapter I present a few thoughts for
the candid reflection of ministers of the gospel, who
are slaves of the vice.

1. How can you set such an example to young
men who look up to you—the embassador of Christ,
as a pattern of Christly virtues, as a teacher of purity
and Bible holiness ?

_ 2. How can you accept the hard earned wages of
poor and humble laborers toward your support and
spend a small fortune (as I have shown in Chapter

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IIT) received from their scanty ‘‘offerings to the Lord”
in such a soul-and-body-destroying habits ? |

3. What answer will you have to make before the
coming judgment bar of God, as ‘‘a Steward accused
of wasting his Lord’s substance ?”

5. What conscientious reason can you render to
the church in your old age, when you come to ‘‘the
fifth collection,’ perchance in poverty and deep
necessity, that you have chewed or smoked up acom-
fortable sustenance? What argument will justify
your claim for an allowance from ‘‘the fund for worn
out and superannuate preachers?”

6. Why may not your mental and physical powers
have been well preserved for years of holy usefulness
if you had wholly abstained from the filthy idol? Is
it right for your brethren to be taxed on their savings
and to take from their share of the fund to contribute
to your imbecile support in anold age of filthy help-
lessness ?

These are heart-searching questions, perhaps, but
my tobacco-preacher and brother, you will have to

answer them! May God help you to answer them
according to the teachings and practicings of our holy
gospel and our blessed Redeemer!

7. But you, brother, nor any other man, has any
occasion to be burdened with the cravings of such an
evil and filthy habit. The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ is truly and fully offered to remove root and
branch, all traces of this craving.

Testimonies to this fact abound on every side, and
I close this little monograph with a few well known

witnesses..
A WOMAN HAS A WORD.

THE PRESIDING-ELDER.—BY A MINISTER’S WIFE.

Broad Christian scholarship; consecration to the church of his

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Master; ‘‘2n ersample to the flock” of preachers on his district,
saying tothem: ‘‘Follow me, as I follow Christ;” pure in heart
and mouth, cne who eschews tobacco and all filthiness of the flesh
and spirit, and after whom the most delicate and sensitive will not
hesitate to put the cup to her lips; a sympathizing counselor,
stable and true; and an example to our boys. é

Such are the usual sentiments of Christian Women.

A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.
HOW A BOSTON D. D. GAVE UP TOBACCO.

The devotee of tobacco who trifles with the habit is a slave
laughing in his chains. The man whopours scorn on the Anti-
Tobacco reform shows a pitiable ignorance of whatis indispensa-
ble to elevate and save our race.

In my abject slavery I was not given to smoke. An English
gentleman once offered Orestes Bronson his snuffi-box. ‘‘No, no!
said the Catholic priest. ‘‘I don’t serve the devil in that shape, I
chew.” I came under the same category with Orestes, and
belonged to that portion of the animal creation that chew the cud.
I rolled the sin as a sweet morsel under my tongue twenty years
and more. It gave measa city pastor, intolerable annoyance;
and was, J may say in truth, a blighting curse upon my minstry.
My sorrows and tribulations in this quarter were many and severe
and it may not be amiss to state a few as examples.

In my parochial duties, | would sometimes be walking up Wash-
ington street, and see a deacon of my church with whom [ must
come in ciose quarters, and in so doing expose my abominable
habit. Indignant, chagrined, I would spitefully eject my quid,
resolve never to resume its use, do my best to cleanse my mouth
and protect my breath, and cordially greet mydeacon. The even-
ing would pass, the night would pass, with but little trouble. The
morning, however, would come with unearthly and insatiable
cravings; and it seemed as though I would ‘‘give my kingdom” for
a bit of pig tail or cavendish! I would take to my study, feverish
and half deirious, or drive for a sermon or lecture. But it was
all in vain; all thought was spellbound. I would walk the diago-
nal of my room, rub my throbbing temples, and at last, in utter
despair, rap upon the banister andcry, ‘‘John! John! get me
some tobacco!”

The tobacco would come, and I would eat it as greedily as an
ox eats green clover. My delirium tremens would pass away, my
mind would become clear and calm, and I would drive on my
sermon respecting self-denial, or consecration to God, or battling
the ‘‘world, the flesh and the devil,” in Jehu style! O, howl
hate tobacco! It makes hypocrites of ministers; it made a hypo-
crite of me.

A short time would pass on, and a similar flare-up would occur.
I would see before me in my walks somesister of my church,
who would expect a few kind words from her pastor, in an inter-
view rather unavoidable. But the thought would occur,—oh,
she will see my mouth! She will detect a habit which she loathes

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and which [ try to despise. I would cast out the abomination; I
would resolve never to use another particle—never; and with the
apparent innocency of a child, greet the sister with usual saluta-
tions as her pastor and friend. [repeat it, | abhor tobacco. It
makes hypocrites of ministers; ic made mea hypocrite! .

These are specimens of my battles with this most popular poi-
son on the globe. Atlength, however, I fought the last battle,
with this Appollyon. It wason this wise. I called on a dying
man, a member of my church. The good brother, on the verge
of the grave, made many confessions; among the rest he said:
‘‘Tobacco has been an idol with me. It has brought me to this
death-bed, and I shall die a happier man if I leave my testimony
against it; and I wish my testimony to be written.” I wrote from
his dictation. We raised him from his pillow; and the last time
he ever used his pen he affixed his name to a humble confession
that he had sinned against God in ruining his health and cutting
short his life by the use of tobacco.

This was a trying moment. My reflections were painful. I
was in agony. A dying brother giving his testimony against a
sin, of which I, his pastor, was guilty. I resolved then as I
never resolved before. I called God to witness that I renounced
tobacco totally and forever; and, God be thanked. I can now
say in truth, J] renounced it totally and forever.

The next morning | took my study. The conflict was terrible.
Heli seemed to be let loose upon my soul. Delirium tremens was
getting the complete mastery. IJ saw, or thought I saw Satan
enter my study and present to my choice ‘‘cavendish,” ‘‘ladies’
twist ’’ ‘‘honeydew,” and all the infernal paraphenalia of a fash-
ionable tobacco saloon. I heard him, or thought J heard him
say, ‘Come Doctor, why do you spurnme? Try me again. You
can think, you can write, if you try me again.” At this point
God gave me unwonied courage and resolution. J remembered
Luther’s successful conflict when he hurled his ink-stand at the
devil, and cried aloud: ‘‘You biack, slimy, nauseous fiend,
begone, begone! And the tobacco fiend leit my study, and left
me forever; an epoch in my ministry.

Reader, if you never used tobacco, but sit in judgment upon my
statement and count it visionary, allow me to tell you that you
are as ignorant as Hottentot about this whole matter.

On the other hand, if you are a victim of the ‘‘weed,” and call
us extravagant, we ask you to make the experiment—give it up as
a finality, once and forever. Otherwise, good friend, please hold
your peace.—N. Y. Independent.

#THE IMPORTANCE OF CORRECT EXAMPLE,

I am a reformed tobacco user, and know that the habit can be
overcome. Asa member of the M. E..Church, and one who has
four sons to instruct, and desiring them not to acquire this habit,
I ask, How shall I overcome the influence of pastors who are
sent to this charge with the habit of the use ofa narcotic? If I
tell the boys, as a parent. that he-is not a good example, then I

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destroy his influence for good. If] indicate to them that heis a
good pattern, then the pastor teaches them by example to use to-
bacco. Should the minister deny himself for the good of the
Church, or should parents deny themselves, and thereby destroy
their children. [ find in my local work that many of the sincere
brethren would reform if the initerant preachers and others would
give no ‘‘uncertain sound.”’

In talking with some of my brethren, they say they cannot ab-
stain from the use of tobacco. Jask, have we not the promise,
‘‘My grace is sufficient for thee. (2 Cor. xii, 9) 1 was a tobacco
user for twenty-eight years. I quit eleven years ago. It was
grace that enabled me todoso. Itismy humble opinion that
this grace will also enable every body else in the Church to do the
same. RENE:

THE NEW RULE ON TOBACCO.

Our readers have been informed that candidates for admission
to Annual conferences will hereafter be required to pledge thern-
selves to abstain from the use of tobacco. This new departure
raises some special questions that may perplex the plain folks.
All will agree that there are special reasons why ministers should
not use tobacco. It is offensive to many of those who do not use
it; and ministers are often brought into close proximity with deli-
cate women to whom a tobacco-laden breath is injurious.

The questions that may perplex are these:

1. Has the church decided that in no case istobacco a medi-
cine? Wemeaninthe case of no future minister. It is well
known that physicians prescribe tobacco in some cases; but the
pledge required by our church does not make an exception. Is
this particular exception understood?

2. What will be the assumed duration of the pledge? As soon
as the candidate has passed the conference, having taken his
pledge, he will find himself in the company of brethren not under
this pledge. As equity is of the essence of every religious obli-
gation, will not the new minister reason that, whatever may be
the mysterious purpose of the pledge, # cannot be interpreted so
as to bind him when it does not bind his peers? Some sort of a
time-limit may be created by a casuaistical corscience to
reconcile a personal obligation with the equality of all ministers.

3. In what way is this new cbligation to be enforced? Ought
there not to be a new question in the review of character at each
annual conference? For instance, this; ‘‘Have all the minis-
ters who are pledged to abstain from the use of tobacco kept their
pledge?” Insettling this matter it would probabiy be necessary
to ascertain, in each case, whether the man passed in before or
after May 27th, 1880; so that we should have the spectacle of a
conference ascertaining the moral duties of its members by con-
sultation of the almanac, and a clear recognition that tobacco-us-
ing became a (ministerial) sin on the 27th of May, in the year of
our Lord, 1880—that is, for seme ministers. This ought not to
grieve us, if the use of tobacco can in this way be restricted; but
there is a novelty in the matter which it is well to study insome of
its bearings.

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4. Will the older ministers be ashamed to take a pledge from
young ministers which they themselves will not take? This
is evidently the effect of the new rule. Is this tne
way the wisdom of a General Conference that did not ab-
stain from the use of tobacco is to be vindicated. Wereally hope
so. When the bishop asks this question, he should call on the
members of the conference to take the same pledge. What a re-
form that would be! Within a year, if the bishops did their duty
to the reform; and if the ministers came to their help with a noble
spirit, there would not be a tobacco-stained pastor in our whole
community. The sextons would no longer need to provide spit-
toons for the pulpit; and the parsonages would no longer be filled
with the smoke of sinful sacrifices. __

“eriously, soberly, candidly, there is only one way to give suc-
cess to this reform. The older members of the conferences must
unite with the candidates for admission in taking this solemn
pledge. If they do not, the reform will fail: the pledge will not
take hold on the consciences of the candidates. The reform will,
by law, reach its victory—a pastorate undefiled by tobacco—in
about thirty years. By that time, the tobacco-using pastors will
have been transferred to—heaven, let us hope. That is, if the law
works, which we distrust not alittle. But there is aswifter way.
Let all our pastors take the pledge as soon as possible, Let the
great reform be consummated in one year.

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