St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-18
POPULAR VICES.
Baleful Results Of the Intoxicating, Nerve
Shattering, Dyspepsia Breeding
Tobacco.
Fully One-half of the Insane Patients Vic
tins Of This Dangerous
Narcotic.
The Devil, Opium, in Possession OF
100000 American Souls-.The
Wealthy Class Afflicted.
Ecstasies of Paradise Followed by
Horrors of He'll Experienced by
the Slaves.
Talmage,s sermon.

Talmage,s Sermon.
Special to the Globe.
BROOKLYN, May 17.-Before the sermon
in the Brooklyn tabernacle to-day Dr.. Tai
mage read from the first book of Kings con-
corning matter 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 adj
mitted. Dr.. Talmage'S reading of the
scripture lesson is peculiar to himself, and
eXciteS as much interest in the audience as
the sermon preached. The reading is a
running commentary with practical lessons
interjected.
The subject was, Does the Use of
Tobacco Cause Cancerous and Other
Troubles? The text was from Genesis l.,
II: ''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 family-the
grass for animal life, the herb for human
service. The cattle took possession of its
inheritance, the grass blade, and 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 STIMULUS
when the pulses flag under the weight of
disease. The caterer takes the herb and
serves it up in all delicacies. The physi-
clan takes the herb and compounds it for
physical recuperation. Millions of the
human race take it for heinOus delectatiOn
of body and mind. The herb divinely
created and for good purposes, in cases
without number prOstituted 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 ocean in
the fifteenth century and captured Spain.
Then it captured Portugal and, then the
French ambassadors took it to Paris and
captured the French empire. Then Walter
Raleigh introduced it into England.
The botanists ascribe it to the genus nico-
tiana; but you all know it as the inspiring,
the .elevating, the emparadising, the radi-
ating, the nerve-shattering, the dyspepsia
breeding, the Notwithstanding tobacco. l
shall not be Extensively personal while /
speak on this subject, because you all use
it, or nearly all! Indeed 1 know from per-
sonal experience how itsootheS and roseates
the world and kindles sociality, and know
what are its baleful results. I know what
it is to be it's slave and, thank God, I know
what it is to be it's conQueror. have no
expectation that will persuade the great
masses of you to
CHANGE YOUR HABITS
upon this subject, but l thought might
help you in some advice to your children.
But, Emy friends, what advice had we bet
ter give to our young people? say, in the
first 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 wide
spread and terrific unhealth. DR.. Agnew,
DR.. Hamilton, Dr.. Olcott, Dr. Barnes, DR..
Woodward, DR.. Rush, DR.. HOSack, DR..
Harvey, DR.. Mott-all the medical frater-
nifty, homeopathic, aIlopathic, hydropathic,
eclectic-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" What is the testi-
mony of the late DR.. John G. Warren of
Boston, than whom there is no higher
authority? He says: 'sFor more than thirty
years | have been in the habit of inquiring
of patients who came to me with cancer of
the tongue and lips whether they used to-
baccO, and, if so. whether they chewed or
smoked, and if they have sometimes an
swered in the negative as to the first ques-
ton, I can truly say that to the best Of my
knowledge and belief such cases are excep-
tions to the general rule. When, as is
usually the case, one side of the tongue is
affected with liberated cancer, it arises
from the habitual retention of the tobacco
in contact with this part" Their united tes-
timony is that it
DEPRESSES THE VITALS
of the system and brings ON nervousness
and dyspepsia and takes off 25 per cent. of
the physical vigOr of the people of this
country, and damaging this generation,
damages the next, the accumulated curse
going on to capture other centuries.
1t Injuries the mind. Another eminent
physician, for long while superintendent
of the insane asylum at Northampton,
Mass, says: ''Fully half of the patients
who have come to our asylum for treatment
are the victims of tobacco" It is sad
thing my brother, to damage the body; it
is worse thing to damage the mind, and
any man of common sense knows that the
nervous system Immediately acts upon the
brain. More than that: nearly all reform
erS will tell you that it tends to drunken
ness, that it creates unnatural thirst. There
are those who use this narcotic who do not
drink, but nearly all who drink use the mar
cotic. 1t was long ago demonstrated that
man cannot permanently reform from
strong drink unless he gives up tobacco. In
nearly all the cases where men having been
reformed have fallen back, it has been
shown they have first touched tobacco and
then surrendered to intoxicants. The
broad avenue leading down to the drunk
ards grave and the drtlnkard's hell is strewn
thick with tobacco leaves What did Ben
jamin Franklin say9 81 never saw well
man in the exercise of common sense, who
would say that tobacco did him any good.
What did Thomas Jefferson say when argl-
ing against the culture of tobacco? He
said: ''It is a culture productive of infinite
wretchedness." Horace Greeley said of it:
''It is profane stencil" Daniel Webster
said: IF those men must smoke, let them
take the horse-shed." There are ministers
of religion to-day indulging in narcotics,
DYING BY INCHES,
and they do not know what is the matter
with them. l might in a word give my
own experience. 1t took ten cigars to make
a sermon. got very nervous. One day l
awakened to the outrage | was intiicting
upon myself. l was about to change set
Elements and generous wholesale tobacco
mist in Philadelphia said if l would only
come to Philadelphia he would, all the rest
of my life, provide me with cigars free of
charge. said to myself: If in these war
times when cigars are so costly and nv
salary is small, smoke more than l ought
to, what would do if had gratuitous and
illimitable supply? And then and there,
twenty-four years ago, quit once and for
ever 1t made new man of me and though
/ have since then done as much hard work
as anyone think / haye had the best
laoalth God ouar hlocSnd q man with A