Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-08-12
THE APPEAL.


pie Of what they are, this talk on bad habits {:
It's entirely natural for people to forty bsb-
It's, % thsi Il bs6 habits Be avoided. The sgoOd
ones VIII generally take care Of themselves. I
mad No intention when ! commenced the letters
OF saying anything upon dognatic theology.
bit / take the liberty Of suggesting to those
who are interested in this kind Of hing that
there be enythinf nat demonstrates total
depravlfy. X Is the readiness with which Young
men imbite bad habits. 1 have seen ~o-igiasl
sln IN the shape Of "a short six sticking cut
or the no1th Of 8 lad Of ten wears. II is
strange what particular pains boys and young
1Eeu will take to learn 10 do that which viii
make then miserable, ruth their health, render
them disgusting to their friends, and damage
their reputation.
Some Of the fashionable bad habits Of the
day are connected with the use Of tobacco.
Here Is a drug that a young man is obliged 10
become accustomed TO before be can tolerate
either the taste OF the effect Of it. Il is rank
Vegetable poison and IN the unsceustoned
animal produces vertigo, faintness, and horri-
pie Sickness Yet young men persevere in The
use Of It, until they can endure Il. and then IN
n they love 1t. They go about the streets
with cigars In their mouths, OF into gncietv
With breath sufficiently offensive 10 drive ali
unperEerted nostTils before them. They chew
tobacco-rOll up huge wses Of the vile drug
and stun their cheeks with them. They eiscu-
N4NA 6NAAN AEEA ~ CllEAnlAa IN the
store in s~pittoons which become incorporate
stenehes, in dark corners OF railroad ears to
stain the white skirts Of uususpecting women,
lecture rO0ras and churches, upon fences, and
int stoves that hiss with anger at the insult.
And the guilds after they are erected They
are to be f0uA in odd corners, 10 out-of-the-
way places-gEea eat boulders. boiuses, kulbR
Horses stumble over them, dogs bark at them;
they poison young shade trees, and break down
the constitutions Of sweepeTs. This may be
an eXsggerstion of the facts. but not Of the
disgust with which one writes Of them.
Now young men, just think Of this thing Z
You are born into the world with a sweet
breath. At proper age, you acquire a good
set Of teeth Why vii! you make Of one a
putreseent exhaiation, and the other a set Of
yellow pegsg A proper description Of the
habit Of chewing tobacco would exhaust the
hltny adleetiTes OF the language, and spoil the
aoleetives themselves for further use and yet,
you VIII acquire the habit, and persist in il
after Il Is acquired
It is very singular that young men will adopt
4 habit OF which every man who Is its victim
is ashsmed- There is, probably. no tobacco
eoeWer N the world who would advise a young
nan to this habit. I have never
seen a slave Of tobacco who did not regret bis
bondage yet, against all advice. against nau-
sea and disgust, against cleanliness, against
every cnnslceration Of health and comfort.
thousands every year bow the neck to this
drug, and consent to wear its TspulsiEe yoke.
They will chew it they will smoke it in CT
gsrs and pipes until their bedrooms and shops
cannot be breathed in, and until their breath is
as rank as the breath Of a foul beast. aud their
clothes have the odor Of a sewer. some Of
them take snuff; cram the fiery weed I'D their
nos;rtls to irriiate that subtle sense which
rsrest flowers were made to fscd-in all this
working against God, abusing nature. pervert-
ing sense, Iujuring health, planting the seeds of
disease, and insulting the dscenciss Of life and
the noses ct the world.
So nuch for the nature Of the habit. and I
would stop here, but for the fact that I an IN
earnest and wish to present every motive IN
ny power 70 prevent young men from
forming the habit, or persuade them 10 abau-
don II. III habit Of using tobacco Is expen-
siTe- clerk on a modest salary has no light
70 Be seen with a cis2f in bis mouth. Three
cigars q dsy, al I've cents a piece, amount to
more than fifty dollars a year Can you afford
liz You know You cannot. You know that
to DO this you have either got 10 run in debt or
steal. Therefore ! say that you have no busi-
ness 70 be seen with a cigar IN your mouth. Il
is FresunPtiFe evidence sgsinst your moral
character.
Did it ever occur to yeu what you are, what
you are made for, whittier you are going ?
That beautiful body Of yours, in whose con
struction infinite wisdom exhausted the re-
sources Of its ingenuity, is the temple Of z soul
that shall live for ever, a companion for angels.
a sssrcher into the deep things of God, a being
allied in essence TO the divine. ! say the BODY
is the temple, or the tabernacle, Of such a being
as this +; and what do you think Of stufing the
tront door Of such a building full Of the most
disgusting weeds that YOU can Esd. or setting
a slow match 70 it, or filling the chimneys with
sDunY II looks to ne much like an endsaTOT
70 smcke out the tenant, OF 10 insult him in
such a manner as to induce him 10 quit the
premises You really ought to be ashamed Of
s1ch behavior. A clean mouth, a sweet breath,
unstsined teeth, AID inofsnsiVe clotbine-sre
not these treasures worth preserving? Then
throw away tobacco, and all thoughts Of II,
az once and for ever. Be a man. Be decent.
and be thankful to ne for talking 50 plainly to
you.
But there are other bad habits besides the
use Of tobacco. There II the habit Of using
stroHg drink,-not the habit Of getting drunk. I
With most young men, but the habit o. taking
drink occasionally IL its milder forBs-of
playing with a small appetite that only needs
sufficient playing with to make VOC a demon or /
q dolt. You think you are safe. know you
are net safe, If you drink at an ; and when you
get offended with the goos friends who warn
yoa Of your danger, I know you are a fool. /
know that the grave swallows daily, By scores.
~drunksrds, every one Of whom thought he was
safe while be was forming his appetite. But
this is old talk. A young man 10 this age who
forms the habit Of drinking, or puts himself in
danger Of forming the habit, is usually 50 weak
that If doesn't pay to save him.
pass By profanity. Tia is too offensive
and vulgar a habit FOR any man who reads a
respectable book to indulge IT,. l pass ty his.
any / have contemplated
Young msn, you who are so modest in the
presence Of WOmen-so polite and smiable ;
you Who are invited into families where there
are pure and %TirtuOus girls you who 20 to
church, and Eeem 70 be such q pattern young
nan; you VIII very possibly neither smoke,
nor chew, nor snuf, nor swear, nor drinE-Vou
have one habit ten times worse than all these
put togsthsr-s habit that makes you Ehited
sspulchre, fair without, but within full CT dead
mems bones and all unclesnBeEs- Hcu have a
habit Of inpure thought, that poisons tie very
Of your life. Il may lead yOu into
lsWlsss induigeness or it may Bot. So far as
your character is concerned, Il makes little
iifsrence. q young man who cherishes i'm .
pure images, and INDUCES IN impure converse !
lions with biz associates, is poisoned. There 4.
is r0ttenless in him. he is not 10 be trusted \.
d1Htreds OF thousands Of men are living In
1ahappiness and degradation to-day who eve
heir unhappy lives to an early habit Of i'm
pure thought To a young man who has be-
zone poisoned In this way, women all appear
% be vicious and weak; and when a young man 4
.osss bis respsct for the sex made sacred BY Z
be relations Of mother and sister, be stands J
Ipon the crumbling edge Of ruin. believe II '
C be true hat a man who has lygt bis belief {
% woman has, az 2 general thing, sst his :
.sith in God. I
Tue only proper way 10 treat such = habit as :
his lie to hy from it-disc1rd it-expel tight =
{ 70 the death. Impure thought Is a moral =
rug quite as seductive and poison5us to the
ss tobacco is to the body. L perVerts the 7
Of every fibre Of the soul. One should e
lave more respect for bis body than 70 make it .
he sbsde Ct tOsds and lizards and u~ncissn rep 3
Of all sorts. The whole matter resolves r
Itself into this: A young man is not r. for life ?
Intii be is clean-clesn and healthy, body and ,
ioul, with 40 tobacco N his moth, 10 liCgor IN o
ais stomach, no oath on bic tongue, no sguf IN P
lis nose, and no thought in bis heart which. II ,
would send him sneakinE into dark \
less from the presence OF good women. 6
A HERoIc WoMAS-FUzrHEa DErsrrs OF Z
MASSAGE At JEDDAH "A letter nron Al 9
.~Xsndria, dated the Oh inst, and published In y
he Paris correspondence Of the TINES. gives. r
tnong other details Of the massacre at Jsdlab. R
he following particulars Of the attack On the j
French Consulate 4" About sunset on the 18Th
u June, the house Of the English Vice Consul o.
Jeddah was suddenly attacked, ard Invaded =
By some hundreds Of Halramites, Gnhsbitanis G.
u Southern Arsbias) who seized the person Of
he Consul, wounded him gIieyiousiY. and iben
flung hin, still alive, from the window into u
he street, whore q mob Of the came IA 4
1atics hacked his body into pieces. The house d
then piilaged, the servants and two dra-
zonsn assassiusted, and the arehieveg OF the
were burnt. While thia horrid q
scene was going on, similar crimes were con- y
at the French Consulate. This Consul.
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