Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-04-27
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

TWENTY REASONS WHY MINISTERS
OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL SHOULD
NOT USE TOBACCO.-1. The habit
renders you offensive to many people
who think ''Cleanliness next to godli-
ness" Converts sometimes recoil
from baptism and communicants from
receiving sacramental bread from to-
oacco-using ministers: dying saints,
well nigh suffocated with the poison
Gus odor, have, with trembling hand,
waved pastors from their bedside
Humilliating fact
2 The habit desecrates your lips.
You roll a noxious poison under your
tongue, and your throat sometimes
painfully reminds US of an open sep
ulchre. Impure lips are an abomina-
ton to the Lord, and they should be
to you, his ministers.
). The habit ill becomes Christian
gentlemen, such as clergymen COM
monty are. "St. Paul." says Bishop
Hooker. 'was emphatically gentle
man." st. Paul @ehe,o the cmd p'-
Paul among the votaries of smoke!
The church of God resents the impu-
tation .
4. The habit Injuries your voice.
The cigar makes it weak and husky:
the quid gives it the rough and frog
like note; whilst snuff, as all know.
gives it the nasal twang. Why ruin
the rich and manly notes of an elo-
quent voice, SO charming and effective
in our pulpits. Have we an excess
OF sacred oloquence?
5. The habit is pernicious as an
example. What if your whole charge,
men, women, and children, should
copy it-all turn smokers? How
long would you live with such peo
pie? You would ask dismission in
twenty-four hours.
6. The habit is expensive. Your
salaries are not large, and, irrespect-
i've of the sin Of wasting money on a
rank poison, the habit in clergymen is
eminently in bad taste, on the financial
score
I. The habit diminishes self re-
spect. 1t lowers the type of any man,
much more that of a christian minister.
1t renders many despicable in their
own eyes. Il love ms pipe,' said a
clergyman, "and despise myself for
using it.
s. The habit disturbs the circula-
tion of the blood and the action of the
heart. Many tobacco users fall dead
instantly. You may fall dead in your
pulpits. Some preachers have. Con-
suit DR.. Twichell on sudden deaths,
and we beg you to heed his warnings.
8. The habit Injuries the mind. 1t
completely enslaves it. Said young
minister, aiming to break his chains.
Il need tobacco to give resolution to
give up tobacco" Sooner or later it
renders clergymen unmanly, undecid-
Gu, anu Tue sport OI caprice.
10. The habit enfeebles the men,
ory. The minds of smokers are some
times completely oblivious. The ma
chine seems to stop, mental action to
cease, and there has been mental
suicide for the time, a violation of the
Sixth Commandment.
II. The habit is an assault and
battery on the whole nervous system.
1t tends to dethrone reason. and
makes imbeciles and maniacs of many
ministers and sedentary men, and our
insane asylums confirm this statement.
Sad waste of intellect!
| II. The habit tends to soothe and
in turn to exasperate the sensibilities
and passions. Itproduces morbid
irritability, and renders many an ami
able clergyman unamiable, and units
him to deal with unreasonable men
and wrangling parishes.
13. I he habit ranks with the
''works of darkness. Satan has much
to do with it. King James said at
bewitcheth him that useth it." 1t
seems to bewitch its clerical victims
more than other men, Clergymen,
like fine violins, are easily put out of
order. Is1
IA. The habit aims higher and
kdOeS violence to the moral sense
fYou cannot maintain a clear con-
science and be the yotaries oftobacco.
1t wastes time, money, strength, and
life, and tramples on the laws of ma
ture, which are the laws of God, and
is sinful, or sin, if any thing is sin.
ID. The habit units you to preach
against intemperance. Tobacco is an
intoxicant. Men and boys get drunk
on it. Should you in good eareest
4 dcnomce dram-shops and reprove
drunkards, they would storm you with
the cry, physician, heal thyself."
16. The habit tends to stupefy
all the Christian affections and reuder
the soul apathetic and inactive. Some
clergymen esconce themselve in their
studies, envelop themselves in smoke,
and care little or nothing about glori-
ons reyivals and glorious reforms and
, repose as anincubus upon our churches.
i IT. The habit destroys the souls
+ of many ofyour hearers-young men
In scores. They see you and other
gentlemen smoke, and they smoke
with tenfold fury. With them it
becomes mighty idol standing be-
tween their souls and Christ.
lS. The habit is self indulgence
in conflict with the self.denying life
of Christ whom you call Lord, Lord,
and profess to initiate.
| IS. The habitby destroying health,
) abridges life, and thins the ranks of
i the ministry. The cry of the South
= and West now is, @Ccme over and
help us. The laborers are few"
II 20. The habit narcotics whole
Il tr;hac whole nationSf III wip1ds n