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

any man of common sense knows that the
nervous system Immediately acts upon the
brain. More than that, nearly all rstormers
will tell you that it tends 10 drunkenness; Ii
creates unnatural thirst. There are thoss
who use this narcotic who do not drink, bat
nearly ali who drink use the narcotic; 50
that sh owe there 70 IA immediate affinity bs.
tween the two drugs. Ii was long ago dem.
onstrated that man can not permanently
reform from strong drink unless he gives up
tobacco. In nearly all the cases where men,
having been reformed. have fallen back, 1t
has been shown thst they have first couched
tobacco snd then surrendered TO into xicants.
The bread avenue leading down 20 the
drunksrd's grave and the drunkards hell is
strewn thick with tobacco leaves. What did
Bepjsman franklin say? II never saw
well man in the exercise OF common sense
who wonld say that tabacco did him any
gocd." What did Thomas Jsifeison say
when arguing against the culture of tobacco?
he said: 1T is culture productive OF in
finite wretchedness." Horace Greeley said
of it: 1T is prcfane stencil" Daniel WEB.
ser said: "If those men must smoke. let
them take the horse she'd"
One reason why there are so many the vic.
Tins Of this habit Is because there are 81
many ministers OF religion who smoke and
chew. They smoke until they get the bron-
chitis and the dear people have to pay their
expenses TO Europe! They smoke until thu
themselves ID death. I could name three
eminent cleraymen who died OF Cancer in
the mouth, and IN every case the pnyelcian
said it was tobacco. There has been many
q clergyman whose tombstone wa5 all COW
cred up with eulogy,. which ought to have
had the honest epitaph: Killed by too
much cavendish!n 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 1t becomes now the duty of the
American clergy who indulge IN tnis mar
cotic to repent. How can a man preach
temperance to the people when he Is him.
self indulging in en- appetite like that? /
have seen = ouspidor In pulpit where the
minister should drop his Cud before he gets
up to read Blessed are the pure in heart"
ard 10 read about rolling sin as sweet
mcrsel under the tongue!" and in Leyisicus
to read about the
UNCLEAN ANIMALS THAT CHEW THE cUD.
] have known Presbytsries and General
Assemblies and General Synods whe theee
was loom set apart for ministers to
smoke in.
Oh, il is a sorry spectacle, a conseorated
man, holy man OF God looking around for
something which you axe TO De looking for 4
larger field CT usefulness He Ia not looking
for that at 81. He Is only looking for sons
place where he C m discharge mouthfol of
tobacco Juice. | sm glad The Methodist
Church OF the United States, in nearly all
their conferences, have passed resolutions
against this habit, and II is time we had an
aati tobacco reform in the Presbyterian
Church. and the Episcopal Church, and the
Baptist Church, and the Congregational
Church. About sixty years ago youog man
graduated from Audover Theological semi.
nary into the ministry. He went strsigh. to
the frcnt. He had an eloqUenCe and persona!
magnetism before which nothing cocld
stand, but he was soon thrown into the in
tane asylum for twenty years, and the doc
tor said it was tobacco that sent him there.
According 10 the custom th6n in vogue, he
wes allowed a small portion OF tobacco every
day. After he had been there neatly twent W
years, walking the floor one day he had q
sudden return OF reason, and he realized
what was the matter. He threw the plug of
tobacco through the iron gates and said
What hroughr me- here? What keeps me
here? Why ana Eere? Tobacco! Tobacco.
0 Ged! Help. help aud I'll never use il
egsin." he was restored. He was brought
forth. Forten yesrs be successfully preach d
The Goepel of Jesus Christ, and then went
into blissfUl immortality.
There ara ministers OF religion today in
dulging in narcotics dying by inches, aud
they do not know what is the matter with
them. l might, in a word, give my IN ex.
perience. 1t took ten cigars to make a ser.
T, mon, j got very nervous. One day / ewak-
4
myself. | was about TO change settlements,
a6elphia said it would only come TO Phiia-
delphia he would, all the rest of my life, pro-
vide me with cigars free OF charge. l said TO
| myself: Ii IN these war times when Cigars
are SO costly and my salary is 90 smau. /
smoke more than ought to- what woald
do if I had gratis an illimtabls supply? And
| then and there, twenty-four years ago,
orrT ONCE AND FnPrvFp
| II made new man OF me- and though /
! have since then done as much hard work as
| any one, think I have had the best health
! God ever blessed a man with. A minister
| of religion can not afford to smoke. Put intl
| my hand the moneys wasted in tobacco in
| Brooklyn and will support three orphan
| asylums as grand and beautiful as those al
| ready established. Put into my hand the
| moneys wasted in tobacco in tbs United
| States of America and will clothe, feed and
| shelter all the suffering poor on this CONT.
nert. The American Church gives 81, O0),000
| year for the evaDgelizatlon OF the heathen
! and American Christians spend So coo, 600 in
| tobecco.
| Now l stand this morning not only in the
| presence OF my God, TO whom / must give an
account for what say to-day. bat stand Ia
tt Q presence Of great multitude of young
! II en- who ere forming their habits. Between
seventeen and twenty-three there are tens OF
| Thousands OF young men damaging them
| selves 'lrretrieyably by tobacco. Yon either
use very good tobacco or cheap 'obacco. If
| you use cheap tobaccoI want to tell you
! why 1t ia cheap. 1t is mixture OF burdacz,
| lampblaok, sawdust, coltsfoot, plantain
leaves, fuller's earth, lime, salt, alum and q
| little tobacco You can not afford, my
young brother, to take such ma 8
| SIS that between your lips. IT, on the
other hand, yen uss costly tobacco, let me
say do not think you can afford it You
take that which you expend, and viii ex
| Iend, il you keep the habit all your lite,
and put it aside. and it will buy you farm
TO make you comfortable IN TIE afternoon 81
| life merchant OF New York gave this
| testimony: IN early life | smoked six CT
CARS day at six ADD half cents each-thsy
averaged that. l thoEght to myself ole day,
J sIll lust put aside all the money an con.