Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-08
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BRANDON, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1889.
TOBACCO LECTURE.


Ciation in this city, termed his tobacco
blast An immense audience gathered
into Mechanics Hall to hear it, but the eff
3ect desired we fear was defeated by the !
exuberance Of his humor, and that not !
always of the most delicate character
Serious thinking was all but entirely dis
sipated, and the moral senSibiilies of the |
gross offenders were but little disturbed !
The conclusion with which he wound up |
bfer nearly two hours labor, that each |
would continue to smoke, and snuff, and !
thew, according to previous habit, not
withslanding all that had been said, we
bpprehend will be found lamenlablv true.
We strongly suspect that tobacconsts will
bot be sensbIy the losers If the Colonel
you'd expunge one half the sport there
would be an abundance left to CRAFTY any
aughter-loving audience; his blast would
be felt with scorching power and the no
bic object at which he aims, reform in
he deleterious practice of using tobacco
would soon become apparent: The man
who should effect a reform here would
deserve the appellation Of benefactor Of
bis race and this gentleman certainly
has abundant materials in this lecture; if
well used, 10 secure him such an award.
l'he clergy took an unmerciful share of
he blast and deacons, likewise, who in
NuIged in the weed. Young men in the
Illogical Institutions were any of them
present, might have felt their seats IN
comfortable. We rejoiced at this; for
. bad we the control of theological semi
barv, no young man should be admitted
b its privileges who persisted i'll the use
n this detestable article. The Institution
NJ Hamilton has, we trust, no one guilty
In this matter. We should be found the
ast in appealing to the churches in be-
haIf OF the support of any such student.
Tobacco, like alcohol, is only fit to be u.s.
i as a medicine. The habitual use of it
PADS to every conceivable mischief to the
Ro1y and the mind. Fihhiness, melan-
ho V, arrangement, Incidence, dyspepsia,
#popexy, cancer, consumption, and cat
Iogue of other ills, according to the lee
nrer, are all involved in this vile habit
Pray abandon it, abandon it, every one c
you reading this notice who may be the
east inculpated, and take your stand or
he side of leform. Ministers who use
obacco must be greatly embarrassed
when preaching on the subject of temper
hnce. Would it not De best, brethren, tc
get rid of every embarrassment to YOU
free action in the pulpit an Y. Bap
Reg.
A question for brother Beebee. He says, aha,
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man should be admitted to its priv ieges who per
sisted in the of this detestabe arcle''-tobac
co. This is right. l should now like to know
whittier brother Beebee will so through. NJ
question, them IS this If he had the control of
theological seminary, would he admit slavehoId
ers and savery-supporters to its privileges! TIL
answer TO this question will involve the dsclosur
Of his views, as to whether using tobacco is MOI
sinful than plunderng, starving, chatte llizing an
heohenizing his fslow-beings.
WHAT'S unsatisfactory in regard to the followin
account of the origin of strange dclusion is TIL
1t has not been spread before the world before.
Is my impression that something of this kind W,
spoken of year or two since but nothing in til
shape has be fore been Seiven to the public-whiC
ought to have been done.
From the New York Observer
ORIGIN OF MORmo ISM.
The Book Of Mormon, or 'Goldt
Bible it would seem, is the production
the Rev. Solomon Spaulding, a gradua
Of Dartmouth College, aud formerly pa
tor Of a Presbyterian church on the We:
ern Reserve in Ohio. While sufftrir
under disease, to amuse himself ana b
friends, he wrote an ina gnary history
The mysterious race of men who bull. L
ancient mounds and other works of a
which are scattered so profusely over t
valley Of the Mississippi. His man
script, falling into the hands of wick
and designing men, has been pervert
into the means of building up the n,
sect Of fanatics, who are making so mn
noise in the West. The Rev. John S,or
Of Holliston, Mass. learning .ha.
widow of Mr.. Spauding (now Mrs. ]
vlson, having, since Mr.. SIS death, m
RED I second husband) was sill living
Monson, Mass, and could testify to
TACT, addressed her letter, and ob,ai
the following narrative, which we c,
from the Boston Recorder of last wee
As this book has excited much att
uon and has been put by certain I
sect, in the place Of the sacred Scriptu
deem il a duty which owe TO the I
nc, to state what know touching its
GIN. That its claim to a divine orioi
wholly nnfounded, needs no proof
mind unperverted by the grossest d