The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-02-24
No Drinkers, Smokers or Chew
ers, Neod Apply.

tIlcSe tcEHls were prominently StL
forth-"Those who drink, smoke or
chew, need notapply."
There are many positions which
men fill in which these conditions
ought to be rigidly enforced; but GER
tainly the last place in the world in
which we would expect these terms,
to be made the sine ora non for the
appointment to office, would be that
from which the advertisement in
question cmanated.
The terms which head this article,
we would naturally expect to meet
with in the qualifications required in
those seeking to enter the Christian
ministry. Most evangelical church
es now inquire of candidates if they
smoke, chew, or drink, but they do
not appear to enforce any rule upon
it. The rule to exclude all who can
not solcmnly and sincerely answer
in the negative ought to be made
most rigid and imperative. Thecvil
example set to young men by chew
ing, smoking, and drinking minis
tiers is most hurtful in its tendencies.
1t also to be insisted in every
Sunday School IN the land that the
superintendent and teachers Meth
err, smoke, chew, nor drink. 1t is a
disgrace to many a sunday school to
find it possessed of Il poorly stocked
library, while its officers and staff,
smoke and chew that which costs as
much in one year as would fill its
shelves with new mdintercsting vol
umes for the use of the children,
The Christian Church itself, the
body of believers, ought to make it
rule that chose who smoke, chew,
or drink need not apply" If these
three sources of wastcfulncss were
not found among believers, there
might be no struggling congregations
burdcned with church debts and
hardly able to find the pastors sala-
ries, Stop these three modes of
squandoring in every Christian
church in the land, apply the money
now so wasted to charging church
accommodation and extending the
Christian operations for the spread
of the Gospel, and the result would
be that pastors and people, mission
airy and tract societies would not
know what to do with the funds so
placed at their command.
Bankers, merchants, traders, pub
lie companies, and public corpora
tions, municipalities, and the State,
the national government and its va
nous departments, ought to lay down
the same rule, chose who smoke,
chew, or drink need not apply"
There would not be one-ffth the ca
ses of fraud and cmbczzlcmont by of
ticials and of those in positions of
trust if this regulation was laid down
as strict rule to be strictly adhered
to. But we have not yet informed
our readers who it is that has rcSolv-
cd on these conditions for those en-.
tcring their employment. We regret
to say that it is not the ministry of
the ChristianChurch, nor thcSunday
school organization, nor the body Of
Christian believers, nor the merch-
ants, traders, bankers, and public
corporations, nor the State and ma
tional recommendations of these
have adopted the rule in all its full
ness and force. 1t is only required
by diStiIlerS! Reader pray do not be
startled and give way to any sudden
burst of establishment. We merely
calmly state the facts.
The New York Hrald of Wcdnos-
day, August 5th, 1875, on page IL,
contained the following advertise.
mCnt'
"Wanted-A few young men, late,
ly landed, to work in a distillery
store; those ,rho smoke, chc,c, or drink
ncsd not applW wages sl5 a month
and board. Apply -, West -
Street
We think this the best commcnta-
ry that we have met with upon the
blatant nonsense talked and written
by liquor dealers and their advocates
about the folly and Canaticism of
tcctotalcrs, and the necessity for
men TO use stimuIants. When the
distillors want employees themselves,
chose who smoke, chew, or drink,
uead not apply
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