The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-04

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 ters of religion who smoke and chew. They smoke until they get the bronchitis and the dear people have to pay their expenses to Eu- rope! They smoke until the ner- ,ous system breaks down. They smoke themselves to death. l could name three eminent clergy men who died of cancer Tn the mouth, and in every case the phys ician said 1t was tobacco. There has been many clergyman whose tombstone was all covered up with eulogy, which ought to have had the honest oritaph: Killed by teo much cavendishl" Some of them smoke until the room is blue and their spirits are blue and the world is blue and everything is blue. Time was when God passed by such sins, but i: becomes now the duty of the American clergy, who indulge in this narcotic to re- pent. How can a man preach temperance to the people when he himself indulging in an appetite like thati I have seen & cuspidor in 8 pulpit where the minister should drop his cud before he gets up to read: Blessed arc the pure in heart," and to read abo ut roll ing sin as a sweet morsal under the tongue! and in Leviticus to read about tue unclean animals that chew the cad. l have known presbyteries and General Assem- bles and General Synods where there was a room set apart for ministers to smoke in.
 Oh, it is a very sorry spectacle, a consecrated, a holy man of God looking around for something which you take to be looking for a larger field of usefulness. He is not looking for that at all. He is only looking tor place where he can discharge nouthful totac. co juice, l am glad the Methodist church of the United States, in nearly all their conferences, have passed resolutions against this habit, and it is tune we had an an ti-tobacco reform in the Presbytc- ryan church, and the Episcopal church, and the Baptist church and the Congregational church About sixty years ago a young man graduated from Andever Theologi- cal seminary into the ministry. He went straight to the front. He had an eloquence and personal magnetism before which nothing could stand; but he was soon thDown into the insane asylum for twenty years, and the doctor said it was tobacco that sent hitn there. According then to the custom in vogue, he was allowed a small DOT ton every day. After he had been there nearly twenty years, walking the floor one day he had a sudden return of reason, and ke realized what was the matter. He threw the plug of tobacco through the iron gates and said: What brought me here: What keeps me here? Why ahi I here? Tobacco! TObac- co! o, God! Help, help and I'll never use it agaiu,' He was re. stored. He was brought forth. For ten years he successfully preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. and then went into a Bliss ful immortality.
 There are ministers of religi on to-day indulging in narcotics, dying by inches, and they do know what is matter with them. l might, in a word, give my own experience. It took ten cigars to make a sermon. I got very nervous. One day l awakened to the outrage was in. hicting upon myself. l was abost to change settlements, and a gen erous wholesale tobacconist 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. l said to myself: If in these war times when cigars are So costly and my salary is small, I smoke more than I ought to, what would do if l had gratuitous and illimitable sup. plys And then and there, twenty four years ago, I quit once and for veer. It made a new man of me al though l have since then done as much hard work as any one, l