Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-12-23
Uncle Toby on Tobacco.

TOBACCO ANrAGoNIsTIC TO RFLIGIoN.--Re-
ligion bids you to be entirely devoted to God.
The use OF this pernicious drug forbids this.
Ii you used it early, and have used it long, ii
has become with you the KING OF APPETITEs
\ GU love it better than honey, or milk, or
bread, or wine, or the choicest fruits. 1t is
usually the last thing which engages your
heart at night, and it is among the first things
which claim your fond regards in the morn
ing. Birds may fill the air with music, flow
'ers may load the air with perfume, the sun
may surpass himself in the beauty Of his
brightness, but you cannot enjoy the one Oh
the other very much, nor God, their glorious
author, till you have appeased giant appe
site, which has dominion over you. BE-
not deceived" my brother! Think not that
you love God with all your heart, when this
idol has such supremacy over your soul. 4alk
not of aspirations " for holiness, " full assn.
rance" and " sanctiGcation," while slave to
this peculiar lust, or while your piety is SC
much raised or depressed by the narcotic pow.
er of this deceptive drug. Break, my brother
from such bonds Of iniquity!" Take hole
Christian-like, and help us wake the church
and wake the nation, to the great and fearful
evil.-Uncle Toby.
FIRES AND Observation-Disclosures are tai
characters! They do as they choose, Smoke
every where smoke every thing; burn wood
lands, burn stables, blocks of buildings, anG
should they burn the globe down, we mus
bo nh IN, lInlrc
A group of boys struck up their matches
for smoke" in the midst of shavings, be
tween two unfinished buildings; fire started
up, aad before it was checked, it carried down
a fine square Of buildings, at an immense loss
to the owners. What was done about it !
Nothing-why should there bel Respecta
BILE men, pious men smoke. Fires are COM
mon, and great sinners must be handled be-
fore we NEEDLE with little ones.-- U'nclt
Toby
The CHRISTIAN A SLAVE TO ToBAcCo.-Re
|ligion bids you cruelty feshly usts, and ex.
ercise self-denial Is not this hurtful lust
vile appetite, an unreasonable self-indul
gence, totally at war with purity and self-de.
NAL? Says DR.. Harris, Tobacco is a lust
of the flesh, an agent of Satan, by which he
is now destroying more bodies and souls than
by any other agent" Said good man, 4" My
tobabco is lust, which is getting the mastery
of me; | will drop it if it takes the flesh
from my bones" He did so. Brother,
pray you do likewise !-Uncie Toby.
| A gentleman, putting his cigar, entered a
stage-coach, in which number of ladies were
seated. He bowed with much selt-compla.
cency, and said, :" I hope, ladies, my smoking
is not offensive to you," " 1t is very otfen-
sive," they replied. He threw up his head in
the way of assent, and said, "Well, well, tits
so to some folks'-AND SMOKED ON How
prominently selfish is such habit !-Omclt
Toby
Tobacco has spoiled thousands of fine boys
inducing dangerous precocity, developing
the passions, softcning the bones, and injurine
the spinal marrow and whole nervous fluid. A
boy who early and freely uses tobacco, never
is known to make man in the true sense
he generally lacks energy of body and mind
Boys, if you wish to be any body, DEspIsE To-
BAcoo, name and thing,-Uncle Toby.