The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-04
TALMAGE.
Docs the Use of Tobacco Cause Cam
 cerOVs end Other Troubles!
A Sermon DenunciatOry of Tobacco Smok- ing and Chewing, and of the Hashesst,
 Opium and Chloral Habits.
lobe-Dcmocrat.

--Clobe-Dcmocrat.
 BROOKLYN, N. Y., May I7.-Be. fore the sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day, Dr. Tallnage read from the first Book of Kings concerning an altar upon which 1 mems bones were sacrificed, and remarked that there is more sacri- flee of human lite now than ever before, although the altar may not be admitted. pr. Talmage's read ing of tha Scripture lessons is pe- Nculiar to himself, and excites as much interest in the audience as the sermon preached. The read. ing is running commentary with l l,cac.ical lessons interjected. The subject of the sermon was: ''Does the use of tobacco cause cancer ous and other troubles?" The text was:
 ''Let the earth bring fcrth grass and herb yielding seed" Gen. 1. | ?.
 Dr. Tslmage said: The first born of earth were the grass blade and the herb. They preceded the brute creation and the human fam. ily-the grass for animal life, the herb for human service. The cat tie took possession of it's inheri- tance, the grass-blade; and man l took possession of it's inheritance, the herb. This herb we have for food in case of hungar, for narcot- ic in case of Insomnia, for anodyne under paroxysm of pain, or for stimulus when the pulses flag un- der the weight of disease. The caterer takes the herb and serves it up in all delicacies. The physi- Uan takes the herb and compounds it for physical recuperation. Mil lions of the human race take it for ruinous delectation of body and mind. The herb divinely created aud for good purposes, in cases without number prostituted for evil results. There is a lawful and unlawful use of the herbaceous kingdom.
 There sprang up in Yucatan, on this continent, an herb which has bewitched the world. It crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the fifteenth century, and captured Spain. Then captured Portugal. and then the French Ambassadors took it to Paris. and it captured the FreEch Empire. Then Walter Raleigh in- troduced it into England. The botanists ascribe it to the genius Nicotiaa; but you all know it as the inspiring, the elevating, the emparadising, tho radiating, the nerve shattering, the dyspepsia breeding, the ealth-destroying to- bacco. I shall not be offensively personal when I speak on this sub jcct, because you all use it, or nearly all. Indeed know from personal experience how it soothes and roseates the world and kindles socially, and I know what are it's bAeftl results. l know what 1t | is to be it's slave, and thank God, I know what it is to be it's con queror. I have no expectation that will pursuade the great masses of you to change your hab- it's upon tLis subject, but thought i might help you in sone advice to your children.
 You say; "Didn't God make to- baccoV Oh, yes, you say, ''lsnt God good?" Oh, yes, you say' "Then God, when he created to- bacco must have created 1t for some good purpose" Oh, yes, it is good for great many things, to- bacco is, It is good to kill moths in the wardrope and tict in the sheep, and to ;stranguiate all kinds of vermin, and to funigate pesti- ferrous places, and like all other poisons, God created it for some particular use. So he did hen bane, so nux vomica, so cOpperas, so belladOnna, so all those poisons which he directly created or had man to extract. But the same God who made the poisons also crea- ted us with common sense to know how to use them and how not to use them. "Oh," said one of my friends, "don't people use it with o,t Saa,s.;no horm tn {hnno selves