New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-01

sye are aiming the followers OF Christ and percelving al
ter nearly two years lapse since IT was wrtsen
in It's spirit which | would reIract, am ANXIOUS
that It should meet the eye, even OF only one
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Respectfully your f1end' LEE LII
ABOUT TOBACCO.
TO those gh0, by profession, haze put on
Cbr;sl" address few thoughts in relation to the
use Of tobacco.
l. Tobacco is a poison, possessed of properties
akin to opium, hemlock, nightshade, etc. The ha-
bifua use of this poison Is injurious to the human
frame, that wonderful structure of the Great Archi
tect, and consequently SIN against God.
II. The use of tobacco is a filthy habit. This
being almost universally conceded, it is OF course
useless 10 defend the proposition. contend, there.
fore, that Christian is bound to put 1t away.
Shall write Z" a filthy Christian p How will It
look in print2 Yet if my proposition Is correct las
il ISL that the habit is filthy it is not an unreasona-
bic deduction. that those who are addicted TO it
are filthy. Moral and physical cleanliness are es-
sentisl to Chistian character.
Ill That 1t is especially sinful in those ubo call
themselves Christians, insist upon, because of the
spirit in which anirnadversion upon. and remon-
STRANGE against, the practice Is received nave
felt it my duty for several years. faithfully and affec
tionatey warn brethren against this SIM ana win
some two or three exceptions there have been Snch
results as to satisfy me that were there no other
proofs of sim they alone would be sufficient. OBJ
noxious to this charge now remember no less than
four ministers of the Gospel, and mon MI r7cordl
member of the laty. have almost determined TO
hold my peace on this subject. can say TO GER
tanty that have met with bat one Christian profes
sor who had the caudor to say he INDUCED in the
practice from the love of it. Almost all have fear,
some paltry pallia.ion offer. With an unconvert-
ed man would by far rather demonstrate than a
professor; and this brings me again to the charge,
that Judging by its fruits) it must be exceedingly
sinful.
~. TITS a griesous sin IN Christian because
1t is wicked and wanton waste OF means which
God has committed to his stewardship for the sole
purpose of doing good; because by it, the temple
Of God is defied Know ye not that we are the
temple of God 2" If any man deile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy" What know
We not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost, which is in you, which ye have OF God.
For We are bought with price: therefore gorfy
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
Gods" Many persons expend more by several
times this vice. every year, than all their contrl
buttons to the Gospel and benevoence combined
1t is a costly sacrifice to the Moloch of appetite
and few are aware of it, until they make calcula
ton Look at the filthy pulpit of tobacco chewing
minister; listen to the cracked voice of snuff
taking one Inspect the churches frequented by
filthy chewing congregation. But must withhold.
The very thought ofthese things is an abominaton.
". Nis a san in n Christian, because in the
cultivation Of this poisonous weed, tens of thou
sands OF human beings groan in hopeless bondage
with immortal souls, and yet denied the rights 81
humanity: and y0u. Christian slave to appetite,
help to rvet his chains, by making his employment
more profitable than by any other means could be.
The encouragement you give to this iniqutv rem.
ders you guilty particpator in all the enormities
growing out of the slave system. Oh! ] would
that every roll of the quid, every puff of smoke,
every titilating feeling of the nasal organ, might
bring forth the groans and reccho the lashes intlct
cd in the cultivation Of this plant. Christian chew
signs. Let them ring in your ears.
VI II is the connecting link an the chain Of a,l-
fruitful soorks of darkness. 1t goes hand in hand
with rumdrinking gambling, rufiianism, Sabbath
: breaking, profanity. In werd, the Ion and tie
base of mankind are, almostto q man, addicted 10
IT, All! ye that say we hope be clothed in spotess
white how can ye de6le yourselves with the filthy
of your species?
WI. 10 is opposed to that cleanliness and purity
of heart and iite, chich worldly people conceive
the true Christian lays claim to, and has right
toenjoy The many sneers have heard cast upon
Ministers and Professors, this account could not
pretend TO enumerate. 1t is looked upon by the
world asa portion of the dead works lust of the flesh,
which the truly converted soul renounces. II is
practice abhored and repudated even in what Is cal
ed respectable society and is it possible there can
be those who have solemnly vowed to forsake every
thing for Christ, guilty of this most unclean thing
Even so-it must be confessed-even if il bring the
burning blush of shame to the cheek of the guilty.
To conclude them have as briefly possible,
presented to the eye of the Christian, the great sin
OF using tobacco far as his own physical condition
is concerned and the violation Of the laws of his
being spoken Of the filthness of the practice; of
the sinful state of feeling exhibited by those adact
ed to 1t of the wicked and wanton waste OF money
In INDUCING in it; exhibited its connection with
the sin Of Slavery its adoption by almost all the
low and vicious and the fact, that as general
thing it religious profession to be considered
spurious among upright and downright decent
worldly people: and would like to know what
more any Christian would ask TO induce him 10
discard lit
Let any one that has been addicted 10 the prac-
tice for any length of time, try to give 1t up, and
then he will find what u tyrant he has been serving
Give yourself TO prayer and God will give you the
victory but without that doubt it. 1t is the mon.
ster habit especially chewing. have heard many
reformed inebriate say, he had given up the Ii
s quor, but tobacco he could not and would not"
hRvo experienced all its phenomena as n chewer,
smoker, snuffer. Its effects er,l-epi nly-and
dlpayS ecH doctors Of medicine to the contrary not
withstandng. "Whether, therefore, ye eat drink,
.orwhatsoever ye do, do all TO the glory of Goo"
Does the Christian user of tobacco do this But
enough rest satisfied that the Church will cast
out tobacco, az she has iptoxication, and the rum
trade, before she will exhibit that Holiness, with
out which no man shall see the Lord"
Many, many years slave to the filthy practice
now repro5ate, but no longer in bonds, l am
A FREEmAS.
LUMBER TRADE.-The Grand Rapids Mich
Eagle estimates that there 900 feet of luu
Der on the Grand River, below that village ready for
shppng aud that above there at least feet
10 be doated down this Spring The amount of lumber