The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-02

so does the ittind of man, from tho
 body it is attached to. No won
 der, then, that a brain poisoned
 will suggest poison thoughts, ano
 acts. o that preachers might
 know this, or knowing it, migh'
 act on it in their efforts to rcgen'
 crate mans moral nature. Let
 them commence at the root of the
 evil. Let them inquire whether or not the brain is diseased, before they try to operate on it's func' tions. As well might they try to improve the sense of smell with the osc stuffed full of snuff, as to improve the moral sense with it's nose stuffed full of the essence of snuff. Try 10 change q mans heart will you, that is palpitating with poison. you wish to be a successful soul doctor, know the first thing to do, to save poison ed mar is to pump the poison out of hials keep it out of him for awhile, till his brain gets clear, then he will arise and walk in dry places; then you can get access to his reason, no longer beclouded. We do believe and know that any poison which has so powerful and injurious effect on the brain and nervous system as tobacco, must necessarily obtund and destroy tue moral sense, as it does every oth- CT sense of the body. What think you of preacher of Christ with q cuid in bis mouth? Is the thing possibles It is, l have seen it, the cuid and the preacher. Could his preaching regenerate..my soul? No, his sermons, like the breath of an old smoker, would smell of tobac- co, and my soul would turn ln dis gust from them. Talk of distilling the essence of Christianity through a worm of tobacco. o. thou to-
 bacco eating hypocrite! How darest
 thou stand up before the altar of
 God and proclaim his word with
 thy tongue reeking in loathsome poison, and thy brain befuddled
 with it's influence. o, thou worse than Baa am.
 It is a common thing for temperance lectures to de nounce alcohol, on the strength of tobacco; that is, lecture with a cud in their mouth. Now this is mean. "Ionor among thieves" al ways. Don't laugh, and taunt your brother wallow;ng there in the filth, while your own mouth is full of a thousand fold filthiey filth. Don't grow poetical on the "drun- kards" aspen hand, when your own hand would tremble worse than his, if you would do without your Ouid two or three hours. When you depict the internal horrors of delirium tremens, recollect that to- bacco produces delirium tremens. It is said that 2 gentlemen in Yer mont who conscientiously abstain ed from all intoxicating drinks, yet died of deliriuln tremens, from tho excessive use of tobacco. l have no patience with a so.called "tem- perance man" who appeals to a "drinker" with his mouth full of tobacco. The drinker if he is not Q chewer, is the most temperate man of the two. think it a gross insult to an audience for man to eject on them alchoholic vituperation and nicotianic approximation at the same time. That audience should say, "pull not the beam out ofyour own eye" which would be too weak simile, but pull that cud out of your mouth, tho vile poison out ofyour whole body, before you ask us to abandon a lesser one. Be then MT. Temperance man and not chew, but eschew to- bacco, as wellas alcohol.
 We have not room to in troduce the history of indi vidual cases confirmatory or our assertion that tobacco produc- cs the disease we have enumera- ted. If you do not believe us, consult Lizars, who will satisfy you with cases and proof. Read pr. Mussey's 'E" say on Tobacco,' by the American Tract And hero let me say, that no tracts will do more good at this time, than anti.alcOhOl, and anti-tobacco tracts. They should be scattered over the whole land;