Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-18
A Sermon On the Subject BY DR..
Talmage.
TOBACCO AND cANcEaoUs TROUBLE:
Does Its Use Bring Them2---RuinOus De-
lectation of Body and
Mind.
A REAL CURSE OF THIS GENERATION.
SpeciaI 10 tie Rs9istT.

men bones were sacrince0 auu AoHoAh NV
that there is more sacrifice of human life
now than ever before although the altar
may not he admitted. DR.. Talmages read
ing of the scripture lessons is peculiar to
himself and excites as much interest in the
audience as the sermon preached. The
reading is a running commentary with prac'
tical lessons interjseted.
The subject of the sermon was: Does
the use of tobacco cause caneerous and other
troublesY The text was from Genesis
IL: "Let the earth bring forth grass and
herb yielding seed" DR.. Talmage said:
The first born of earth were the grass
blade and the herb. They preceded the
brute creation and the human tamily-the
grass for animal life, the herb for human
service. The cattle took possession of its
inheritance, the grass blade; and the man
took possession of his inheritance, the herb.
This herb we have for food in case of hun
ger, for narcotic in case of insomnia, for
anodyne under paroxysm of pain or for
s6mulous when the pulses flag under the
weight of disease. The caterer takes the
herb and serves it up in all delicacies.
The physician takes the herb and COM
pounds it for physical recuperation.
Millions of the human race take 1t for
Ruinous Deleetation
of BODY and mind. The herb, devinely
created and for good purposes, in cases
without number prostitutei for evil results.
There is lawful and unlawful use OF the
herbaceous kingdom.
There sprang up in Yucatan on this con-
tinent an herb which has bewitched the
world. 1t crossed the Atlantic in the Fit-
teenth century and captured Spain. Then
il captured Portugal and then the French
ambassador took it to Paris and it captured
the French empire. Then Walter Raleigh
introduced it into England. The botaniSts
sscribe it to the genus Nicotiana; but you
sll know it as the inspiring, the elevating,
the emparadising, the radiating, the nerve
SCATTERING, the dyspepsia-breeding, the
misunderstanding tobacco. l shall not be
Extensively personal while | speak on this
subject because you
All Use 1t,
or nearly ALL indeed know from personal
experience how it soothes and roseates the
world and kindles sociality, and | know
what are its baleful results know what
it is TO be its slave, and thank God, know
what it is to be its cOnqueror. / have no
expectation that will persuade the great
masses of you to change your habits upon
this subject, but thought might help you
| in some advice to your children. You say:
| Didn't God make tobaccof Oh, yes.
| You say: Isn't God goodY Oh, yes.
You say: Then God, when he created to-
bacco, must have created it for some good
purpose" Oh, yes; it is good for great
many things-tobacco is. 1t is good to
| kill moths in the wardrobe and ticks in
sheep and to siraneulate all kinds OF YER
min, and to fumigate pestiferous places,
and, like all other poisons God created 1t
for some particular use. So he did henbane,
so nix vomica, so copperas, belladonna, so
all those poisous which he directly created,
or had man TO extract. But the same God
who made the poisons also created US with
common sense to know how to use them
and how not to use them. "Oh," say some
Of my friends, don't people use it without
seeming harm to this depletionH' Oh, yes!
Skillful and prudent physicians have some
times prescribed it just as they sometimes
prescribe arsenic, and they prescribe it well,
There can be no doubt about it being
poisonous. There was a case reported in
which little child lay upon it's mothers
'ap, and drop from her pipe fell on tn
child s lip, and it went into convulsions and
into death. But" you say, don't people
live on to old age who indulge in this
habitY' Yes so | have seen an inebriate
seventy years old. There are some
persons who, in spite of all the out
RACES to their physical system, live on to
old age In the case Of the man Of the Jug
he lasted so long because he was picked
In the case of the man with the pipe he
lasted so long because he was turned into
smoked liver.
But, my friends, what advice had we bet
ter give 10 Our young people? Isay in the
6rst place let US advise them to
Abstain
from this habit because all the medical
fraternity of the United States and Great
Britain pronounce it the cause of vide
spread and terrific unhealth. Dr. Agnew,
DR.. Hamilton, DR.. Alcott, DR.. Brues, DR.
Woodward, DR.. Rush, Dr. Hosack, DR..
Harvey, DR.. Mott-sll the medical fraterni
ty allopsthic, homeopathic, hydropathic
ecleclie-denounce the habit and warn the
community against it. One distinguished
physician says: This habit is the cause
OF seventy different styles Of disease. This
habit is the cause of nearly all the
cases of cancer OF the mouth.
Whist is the testimony of the late Dr..
john C. Warren, Of Boston, than whom
there is no higher authority He says:
For more than thirty years have been in
the habit Of enquiring Of patients who came
TO me with cancer Of the tongue, whether
they used tobacco, if so, whether they chew.
ed or smoked, and if they have sometimes
answered in the negative as to the first
question can truely say that to the best of
my knowledge and belief, such cases are
exceptions 10 the general rule. When, as
is usually the case, one side Of the tongue is
| affected with ulcer cancer, it arises from the
habitual retention OF the tobacco in contact
with this part" Their united testimony is
! that it depresses the vitals of the system and
brings on nervousness and dyspepsia snd
takes of twenty-five per cent of the physi
cal vigor Of the people of this country, aud
dansging this generation, damsges the
next, the accumulated curse going on to
capture other centuries.
1t Injuries the Mind.
Another eminent physician for long time
superintendent Of the insane asylum al
Northampton, Massachusetts, says: "Fully
bali Of the patients who have come to ouc
ssylum for treatment are. victims OF to-
baceo.| It's sad thing, ms brosher, t.
damsge Che body; /, is worse thing TO
dsnsge the mind and any man Of common
sense knows that the nervous system i'm.
mediately sets upoa the brain. More than
that: nearly all reforners viii tell you that
it tends to drnnkenness. 1t creates un-
natural thirst There are thosa who use
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