The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-24

Does the Use Of Tobacco Cause Cancer
GUS and Other Troubles!
A Sermon Denunciatory or Tobacco Smok
ing and Chewing, ana of the Hash
eesh, Opium and Choral
Habits.

mon III the DICODlyu 1dDsIuaCle tO~udy, OIs
Talmage read from the frat Book of Kings
concerning en- altar upon which mems bones
were sacrificed, and remarked that there is
more sacrifice of human life now than ever
before, although the altar may not be admit
ted. DR.. Talmage's reading OF the Scripture
lessons is peculiar to himself, and excites as
much interest IN the audience as the sermon
preached. The reading is RAINING com
mentary with practical lessons interjected.
The subject OF the sermon was:
"Does the use OF tobacco cause csncsrous
ard ether troubles?'
The text was:
Let the earth bring forth grass and herb yield.
Ing seed. Gen, i, 2.
DR.. Talmage said:
The first born of earth were the grass-blade
and the herb. They preceded the brute
creation and the human famiIy-the grass
for animal life, the herb for human service.
The cattle took possession of lite inheritance,
the grass.blade; and man took possession Of
his inheritance, the herb. THIS herb we
have for feed in case of hunger, for narcotic
in case of insomnia, for anodyne under par
oxysm of pain, or fer stimulus when the
pulses flag under the weight of disease. Tho
caterer tekss tae herb and ssrves it up in all
delicaoies. The physician takes the herb and
compounds il for physical recuperation.
Millions OF the human race take 1t for ruin
Gus DEDICATION OF body and mind. The
herb divinsly created and for good purposes,
in cases without number pcossituted for evil
results. There ia lawful and unlawful use
CT the herbaceous kingdom.
There sprang up il Yuca!an, on this CONT.
nent,
AN HERB WHICH HAS BEwITcHED THE WORLD.
1t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in The if
tenth century, and captured Spain. Then
it captured Portugal, and then the french
ambassadors took it to Paris and Ii captured
the French Empire. Then Walter Raleigh
introduced it into England. Ths botsnists
ascribe it to the genus Nicotiana; but you
all know 1t as the inspiring. the elevating,
the emparadising, the radisting, the nerve
shattering, the yspepsia.breeding, the
health destroying tobacco. I shall not be
offensively personal while speak on this
subject, because you all use it, or nearly all.
Indeed know from peronal experience how
sociaiity, and know what arc its baleful
results. know what 1t is to be ito slave,
aud, thank God, know what it is to be its
coDqueror. / have DO expectation that /
will persuade the greet masses Of you to
charge your habits upon this subject, but I
thou ght might help you in some advice to
your children.
You say, Didn't God make tobacco?" Oh,
yes; you say, isn't God good? Oh, yes;
you cay, "i>aen 0od when ~ created tobsc.
co, n,rst have created it for some good pur-
pose." Oh, yes, it is good for great many
things, tobacco is. It is good to kill moths
in the wardrobe and tick IN the sheep aud TO
straneulate all kinds of vermin, and to fumi.
gale pestiferous PLACES, aud, like all ether
Ioisons, God created it for some particular
use. So He did henb2ne, so nux yonica, go
c0pperas, 60 belladonRs, so all those poisons
which Be directly created or had man to ex-
tract But the same God who made the poi
soma also created US with common SENSE to
know how to use them and how not to use
them. "Oh," say come Of my friends, don't
people use it without seeming harm to them.
selves, and are there not cases of plethora
which absolutely need this depl STOMP Oh.
yes, skillful and prudent physicians have
sometimes prescribed it, Just as they some
times prescribe arsenic and they prescribe it
well.
THERE CAN BE no DOUBT ABOUT ITS BEING
POISONOUS.
There was case reported in which little
child lay upon its mothers lap, and drop
from her pipe fell on the child's lip and it
went into commissions and into death.
But" you say, Don't people live to an old
age who indulge in this habit?n Yes; so
lave seen an inebriate seventy years old.
There are some persons who. in optic OF all
the outrages to their physical system, live
on to old age. In the case of the man of ths
jug, he Tested go long because be was picked
Ia the case of the man Of the pipe, he lasted
20 long because he was turned into smoked
liver.
But, my friends, what advice had we bet.
Ter give 10 cur young people? Say in the
first place let US advise them toabstain from
this habit because all the medical fraternity
of the United States and Great Britain pro-
ncunce ii the cause OF widespread and ter
rife unheslth. DR.. Agnew. DR.. Hamilton,
DR.. Olsot, Or. Barnes, DR.. Woodward, DR..
Rosb, Dr. Hoseck DR.. Harvey, Dr.. Mott
ali the medical fraternity. homeopathic, al
the habit and warn the community sgainst
il. One distinguished physician says: This
habit is the cause OF seventy different styles
0: disease; this habit is the cause OF ne3rly
| all the cases Of cancer OF the mouth" WAT
! is the testimony OF the late Dr..
~ 'o1-SHi VA 0JslO1f tL1a
whom there is no higher au-
| thority? Hs says: "For more than thirty
| years l nave been in the habit of inquiring
! of patients who ca ne TO me with cancer OF
the tongue and lips whether they uaed to.
| bacco, and, if So whether they chewed or
| smoked, and il they have sometimes ana
wered in the negative as to the frat cues
| ton, can truly say that to the best of my
| knowledge and belief, euch cases are excep-
tons to the general rule. When. as is usu-
| fected with liberated cancer 1t s'i.es from
the habitual retention Of the tobacco in con.
tact with this part" Their united testi-
| moDy is that it depresses the vitals of the
systen and brings on nervousness sdd dys-
pepsia and takes of twenty-five per cent. OF
the physical vigor Of the psopIe OF thus