Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-01-14

Frem the Methodist Home Journal, Philadelphia
October II, 1865. 80
To Tobacco Clfewers...A word
/ 90 10 OF Hope. an4eI 20 $50
! My,Deor Brethren:-I claim you a
such, net only BY the ties of Our common
humanity. but by the genial force of oul
common habit. have q word Of good
cheer for you. j 17aie vga rj .aHai l1s
You and have often smiled at the con-
ference resolutions, and the discussions
in Preachers Meetings, and elsewhere, on
The tobacco question. Our friends willre-
member That we never said word, in
public, in advocacy Of our habit, (which
we have been willing to admit, when prop
erly questioned, is injurious and filthy, or
at least useless; they will remmembei, also,
that while we have been denounced as
first cousins to the drunkard, half brothers
to the opium eater, and, at any rate, sin
ners and mo gentleman" We have, still
kept our peace, though we have felt Justly
indignant. We have never returned rail-
ing for railing. 1 am not able to say
whether ous patience is the result of the
soothing influence OF the qud, or the be
numbing influence of the cigar. We have
been patient, and yet are. We know that
denunciation is nonsensical, and that ar
gument is useless. For We are satisfied
that we can write essays from our own
experience, which shall be as full of force
as any that our dcfamers may writc-and
all upon their side too.
We have often said TO wife, brother
or friend, -'fll quit" and then we have
made an effort, which has ended in downs
right failure, because either the taste was
too strong, or the mania q Tobacco TO
severe. In word, we could not starG the
pressure-or at any rate, we have feared
that we could not. We have said that Il
can stop at any time, of course He is
very weak who cannot" and then in pri
vate we have ihought-"I wonder if |
Can" and at last have been compelled 10
admit that we are diseased men, just as
much so, though not so fearfnlly, as the
poor diunkard. Now and then we see a
man who has broken up the habit, either
because he had more resolution than we
have, or because he had not become so
enslaved as we are, aud have envied him.
Even when we have been laughing at the
arguments Of friends, and flushing at tie
denunciaiions of injudicious opponerts,lwe
have blushed at our own weakness, and
have sighed over the hopelessness OF cur
case.
Let me say that we may 10 free. Pray7
or. as in the case Of a good brother in Wash
ineton, whom know well and prize high
ly, is very good, but prayer does not cure
diseases generally. lie hbured uudcr
habit only, aud was saved through PRAYER.
You and arc laboring unler diseases
and medicine will cure rs; ard such a
medicine, l am Lappay TO say, can he
had.
For sixteen years was slave 10 tob.c-
co-chewing q. smoking nearly all the
time. Once made an honest effort to
quit, but suffered so much that abandon
ed The effort. Some two or three msnihs
ago, saw. in lions Herald, an advertise
ment of the Tobacco An,ido;e, for the
sale OF which DIR, T. II. Abbott, of Jersey
City, y j.. is she agent. 1t occurred To
me that it was just as safe, and might lie
Ear more practicable invest fifty cents iu
box of the !iniidotc as TO pay the same
amount for prize essay on the use Of
tobacco.
That was n good investTeni-tbc only
enc have made since ! came To The won>
deriul West-and pays asionishingly. |
am now saving from So TO $50 per year,
in money, and incidentally Otherwise Ia
four days after commencing 10 use the an
lidotc, found some relief, and in week
or ten days, was thoroughly cured of The
taste and diease both. Never for mo-
ment since then have had the least de-
fire to lch the unclcan thing. Tie phlo
sophy or the cure is very plain 10 my mind,
but need not take mp your time in ex>
plantations, any more than did the blind
man try to show he had been made to see.
Ycu need not ask, how can this be? Sufs
flee il to say that hundreds of persons
who have been saved, join me in testiiying
10 the virtue of the compound. And lave
and sympathy for you, my dear brethren.
induce me thus to address yor. We have
been one in a filthy slavcry-let us be ohe
in clearly freedom.
Truly, yours,
IIHNRY G. WEsrwoop, ID. ID.
Omaha, Nebraska, sept 30, 1868.