Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-05-29
A SUNDAY SERMON.
TORACCO, OPIUM AND CHi soltAL
ThKRN IN HAND by DIR. TALMAGE'
rob,eco ms Bad for the Mind ms TOT tho
Body-It Fills the Asylums'

HOuV-Nl EAiAa AAN @A'@%-
DR.. Talnlage discussed the tobacco |
Question in the Brooklyn Tabernacle |
sunday morning. A conspicuous feature
Of the congregation was the number Oh
young men. 80
Genesis i. I1-"And God said, Let the
earth bring forth grass, the herb yield
inc seed. After a general reference 70
heTbs and their uses the Doctor dropped
IN his subject Some three hundred
Years AGO a plant was discovered IN W.
catan and taken to Europe. 1t was po--
TENT In its influence. 1t conquered
S I,. # conquered Portugal. Itcon-
onered France. It was taken over to
Enoland by Sir Walter Raleigh, and 1t
sooY conquered the British Isles. 1t was
tobacco. 1t has been going on conquer
/ inc ever since. Dr. Ialnage
co1ld sneak of tobacco from experience.
re had been its slave, but, thank God J
hi said. he had been able TO conquer
the habit. There were hundreds OF per-
sons today who we're asking the ques-
tion Does the use Of tobacco tend to
produce cancer2
l III WAS UOl HIS AAlNAAAeAA W $500
4 discussion to that narrow issue; nc
would not overlook the question: but ne
would look at the tobacco question from
more commanding standpoint. IL was
common defence OF those VINO USED
the weed to remind us that God maze
it. 1t was poor defence. True enough,
God made it, but God made many thihss
beside. He made belladonha, nux yom-
ica and hundreds of other things which
had their uses. He had also given man
common sense. to enable him to dlstln-
eynisb use from abuse. II was undeni-
9ble that tobacco was poison. Ihere
were those. however, who would not
have IL SO. Men who smoked lived to O
GOOD old age. Yes But so did me
Rriates. Hell remembered man who
lived TO the age of one hundred years.
and whose extraordinary longevity was
! attributed to the fact that he had been
.. continuously drunk for the last biteen
/ veorz Of his life. Men were surely born
for a higher purpose then to pickle then
= own bodies and to smoke their OWL
lives.
as the body. 1t filed our asylums
3 Medical testimony was abundantly
Z strong on this point. There were nun
dreds and hundreds in our asylum
who in their lucid intervals, could trac'
: their misfortune to the influence OF 70
!, Locco II created unnatural thirst. ID
II would not saw that every smoker was
y drunkard, but most drunkaros Wel
d smokers. The pathway to the afunA
7 ards grave was streWn thick WIN u
= bacco leaves. In all its forms the us
u of tobacco was offensive. Horace Gree
. lev spoke of its ''protane stencn.
= Daniel Webster thought tnat III
% smoker should retire to the horse sheC
10 Ministers were much TO blame IN tn,
matter Of smoking. 1t was bad exampl
" to others. especially to the young mel
Of INIT IL was also ruinous to themselVe
I MANY of them annually smoked then
in aelves sick. and annually their good PEI
ME came to their rescue and sent thel
as to Europe to reeuperate.
es TIE co1ld uan,e at least five minlste
N whom he had known to die from cane
d. bronoht on from the use Of Tobacco
b. Over MANY a minister's grave the eE
bit tanh might with truth be written, HE
nd lies a GOOD and pious servant OF %
Who died from too much Cavendlsh
IS In all the churches-Episcopal, Presb
terian. Congregational, Baptist, Meth
al dist-there was need for reform. L
Ve baeoo was to be denounced also becau
IA Of its cost, Give him the $l5, 900, 0OO
at wear and he would clothe and feed
the Door in the country.
I'd DR.. Talmage had something to 81
nv about cigarettes, and the young man "
= informed that in many cases the qu'
If. lion to be considered was whether
n would have a home without tobacco
M tbe tobacco without the home. Rel
81 ence was made to nepenthe, IN WIN
~, some Of the ancients INDUCED; to has
ost isb to opium and chloral. Of opil
10 az O0O pounds we're annually import
no 10 fbese shores, and America had
l5 least soc. 900 opium victims. The !
leo ~ cbloral was on the increase. I
bonse in Germany, the preacher sa
az manufactured half ton Of chloral Il
week. Mightier far were those marco
~ and apmsthetic devils than the devil
4 alcohol. bad as he was, and 1t was
ner fact IN connection with the use OF ha
ave ISL. opium and chloral, that its Wet
were incurable. Prayer was OF no aV
The powers of Almighty God seeme'
nn. refuse to interfere.