The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-02-24

CHARIESTowN, Feb. 20, 1883.
| am 50 glad my position is like the
APOSTLE Paul-that | am permitted 10
speak for myself It vas the fartheSt
from my mind to wound saint OF sinner
when | spoke against those abominable
practices of smoking and chewing. But
if my becoming a martyr on the shrine Of
good to my fellow men would blast every
crop of the weed, | fain would yield my
remaining days. No more exalted repu-
tation would | need for future genera
TONS She died for the good of NOR
tails | don't care how little Il ,rhoie
,fan,ilY may use. The wrong is the sane
1t is not the number Of sins commit,
but it is rejecting the atonement that
keeps me ont of heaven. Some have
said What God made people can use
moderately Let thea! Try scorpion
in the bosom for moment or take but Il
small quantity of deadly night siiahe
have often felt glad that while the Gre
ator has placed on earth SO many seeming
evils. lie has endowed us with caution a.
to What is dangerous. 1t was always
con ecture of my OWL that tobacco is the
liC w lthtu ollS SoHtts USli-
nence from the use of tobacco is not "A
divine injunction" says "Quid Nunc'
Hear Paul: Having therefore these
ourselves from all fNhintS> If tie fcxh
and spirit, perlecting holiaess i'll the fear
of Cod If some Of our diyinesi?l will
prove to me that it is clean practice.
splitting in a cu>pedorc for some else to
handle, | will give it up. Besides man
is not classed among these animals that
- ,hew 4 cud." What kind Of bless
ing could one of our most gifted preach
ers utter over a pipe aud tobacco? | am
SO glad, with the peculiar shape Of my
mouth, that in my Young days | WAS not
entrapped with the weed / owe my
hatred to tobacco smoke to my mother
especially. She long before she did
would have gone to her last home had
my home been infested with tobacco
crlfnchers or smokers. | wish | had the
eloquence of the Sainted Cool. man that
might deduce more but for one wI!ISt,
space and time are limited ! have cited
enough. If | vas 4 yutary of the pIac-
tice the world might know IT, The very
idea of not wanting any one to know it
speaks not in its favor. | know young
HlaU. not IL lHlit from mere. VINO lliCu 20
leave it Oft What made him make the
attempt? \ consciousness of it being
wrong. So You see my opinion that it is
useless and an unnecessary expense, not
fulfilling the mission God intends for
You. Many who chew may reach the
shining courts OF heaven: but one thing
| do know, they will leave their guilds
behind them. am SO glad that nothing
,,nnlan, ,r,ta th.,, l,,.r
etc, not even the perfume OF tobacco or
snuff.
| am glad | am able to stand by the
right, with many of the members of the
Nj. f. Church to sustain me, and the
great number of holiness men and wo-
men will give me hearty approval, and
a loud Amen to the final overthrow of
that weed" of which it is said, that
Satan sowed the seed.
WHAT simpleton but knows L am living
in Il state of single bleSsedItSS; and il
my partner in life had been Il tobacco
chewer. my hair would be whittier than it
is. So "Quid Nunc,' take your pen
again. Don't be so SpitetuI rs yen were
in the first part of your communication.
The question now FOR yuu to settle is:
Does chewing tobare" tend to @io}i!y
Cod and does it furtiIGr Coils precious
truths Can Il preacher do the same
amount of spiritual good, when lie can
not by example teach young men that
they should cleanse themselves from AL
tilthiness
And last, to show what the VI. +.
Church really thinks officially of this in
consistent sin of It's ministers, the Viii
mington Conference passed a resolution,
NOR in ,torcc. not to admit into It any
young minister who is a tobacco user.
All, what consistency. To forbid the
young to indulge the sin. but to al
low the old preachers to chew, smoke,
and spit od hJHnm.' I'D WHam-that
means as much as they please. No, not
quite that. Just IA little. Not much,
but just enough of sin. What Il d"vtrinc
for any consistent minister of Gods word
to preach. PHlLrs.