Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-17
1HE TUO SANS.
How and What They Preach-Thei- Abandon
ment of Tobacco.

ment oi Tobacco.
From the Chicago Advance, April $.
Ono remarkable thing about the ministry
OF both Sam Jones and sam Small-the two
Sans "a they like To- be called-is the almost
entire absence OF the emotional element. In
deed, ii there is to bo criticism at all on
their work ii might be here Strange as II
may seem they labor almost entirely on the
Intellectual side of ones nature Their Jokes
sharp hits. and keen thrusts constitute an
entertainment which all classes seem tO
enjoy, but they do turn men to righteous
ness. Along with the smiles and laughter
there are some tears and ever SO much
preaching OF righteousness. Mr.. Jones de-
ponds very little upon tho feelings, aud
teaches his converts to rest thereon not at
all. His preaching il something after the
manner 0i Daniels to BelshaZZar ''Break
oil your sins by righteousness and your in
iquities by showing mercy 30 the poor"
Then he takes up the refrain OF Isaiah
"Ccaso To do evil, learn To do we'll" lie
says over and over again, in effect DO not
stop to wait for any change OF heart This is
Gods part QUIT your wckodness-or mean
ness, as he puts it-and begin Ia do right,
and you will feel right. lie believes with
the sainted Rowland Hill that If "a man is
Christian every ono OF bis household will
know it. His wife and children will find it
out first lio puts them in tho front rank as
witnesses. II you want 10 know whether a
man is a Christian or not, find out what his
family thinks. Rowland Hill used To say
that a mans dog knows when his master
gets religion ; his OK finds it out his horse
understands it. lie il a different man.
Where before he was snappish and a curl
and impatient, he is now sweet tempered,
genial, and kind hearted. "What evidence
have you that you arc Christian ?" said
MIR. Spurgeon to working girl ~ now
sweep under the mats, )" she replied. "That,"
said the great preacher, ais sufficient"
When Mr.. Small came here AZ an aruAt
courier of the movement he sat III his room
entertaining the reporters, smoking cigar
cites. lie was very emphatic in his denun-
cations OF those who regarded the use of
tobacco a. unchristian. His utteraDcos then
were shock aud trial TO many OF us. But
the Christian public waited and prayed and
labOred with those two men. At last Mr..
Small stood up and said " | give up tobacco
In all forms, now and here forever, so help
mo GOdH' The whole audience cheered,
| many rose to their feet 1t was a manly
stand. His reasons for the change were no
less remarkable. He put ii on the highest
| grounds; not because he was convinced
| that 1t was wrong not because others were
| offended merely, but, he said, "Thoir criti-
| cisms ON me for this course lind are making
| me sensitive and resentiul toward good
brethren, and ! cannot stand that, so here
goes" In day or two MIR. sam Jones said
| the same thing in effect, and the whole
| Christian atmosphere about Chicago was
| purer and cleaner. We do not say that to-
| bacco users arc unchristian, or that the use
OF tobacco is necessarily a sin. 1t is not to
be compared with drunkenness, but it il 4
filthy, often unhaalthful and always an ex,
| pensive and useless habit. As Mr.. MOODY
| put 1t when some one asked II Christian
| could use II and still he Christian. eyes
but very filthy Christian" he replied.