The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-06-12
Tobacco ana Narcotics.

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semi-annual convention Gloucester Co. W.
G. 7. L.. Harrisonsille, May 10. 1891.
After careful study of the oatgrowth Of
evils resulting from the U.s. of tobacco. |
am led to exclaim as one OF old, THE half
has never yet been told" With the dis
covery of America came the using OF to-
bacco by civilized nations. Very soon it
became the great solace to the sober In
dian, then the white man followed. But
why not adopt his war-paint and feathers,
as well as his tobacco habit; that it is
filthy, the user will not deny; when learn
ing it's use the stomach uses all its powers
to rid itself of it, as every user of it pres
ent will testify. Ida Ingalls, says: ut is
difficult to understand how a good man
can allow himself to become slave to such
a filthy appetite. how a clean man can take
| such a mess in his mouth, how a refined
man can tolerate for a moment anything
so degrading, or how al unselhsh man
can annoy bis friends with a habit SO dis
| gushing" The thing itself is filthy. 1t is
stripped, sorted and favored, it is then put
into large piles and negro men in check
shirts only, are put on the pile to work in
the favoring; they tramp it down with
bare feet as farmers do hay. The room is
kept warm and the negroes tramp. tramp,
all the day, (this process the wiiter saw
it is afterward made up in plugs and pack
ages and sold to our fastidious gentlemen.
If women and girls were to use the vile
weed they would be outcasts from decent
society. What young man who thought
anything of himself would have the our
age to be seen in company with a young
lady who used tobacco, even were she en-
dowed with ever so mauy graces. Josiah
Aliens wife says: ''Ifitis right for Thomas
Jefferson it is right for Tirzah Ann" Yet
less than a week ago | saw one of our
Christian young ladies pass out from the
church door and accept the escort of a
young man with a lighted cigar in his
mouth before he was two squares from the
church. Oh girls, girls, don't do it, even
if you are afraid to protest against what
must be disgusting to You, FOR depend upon
~, IL nc Hio IL itoPCSO III ia ~" ta"tf
should a nearer relationship ever exist be-
tween you, he could not have the same re-
pect for you had you moral courage enough
to stand up for the right. Young men like
to see young girls who have backbone
enough to stand up FOR their convictions of
right.
And what shall | say Of teachers and
preachers who participate in the great evil.
The time has passed to give or receive in
struction from lips polluted with tobacco.
1t is an insult to God to send up prayers
Favored with tobacco. How can Christian
men addicted to this vile habit do so in the
face of our Heavenly Father with such
commands as these: "Be We clean that
bear tho vessels of the Lord" "Know ye
not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the spirit Of the Lord dwelleth?" "If any
man 6efile the temple Of God, him shall
God destroy, for the temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are"
l have not touched upon the extravagant
waste of money expended in this habit.
The American church gives So, 500. 900 a
year for the heather, and American Chris
tians spend $500, 600, COO in tobacco. And
yet many object tothe great outlay for mis-
sions. General Grant told the boys in
Girard College he hoped they were not
allowed the use of tobacco, for il kept
from it while under training, they would
be far less likely to Indulge in it when
they went out. And yet this great soldier
who unflinchingly stood the fire of many
battles, fell before this great destroyer,
tobacco.
Mothers see TO it that your boys are not
forming this habit, is is important that we
begin our warnings early in life, that they
may one day stand before God, fit temples
for the Holy Spirit.
The poet says:
l took a piece OF plastic clay
And idly fashioncdit ore day,
And as my fingers pressed it still
1t moved and yielded to my Will;
Icame again when days were past,
The bit of clay was hard at last;
The form / gave it still il bore,
But | could change that form no more.
| took a piece o~fliving clay,
And gently formed it day by day,
And moulded with my power aud art,
A young child's soft and yielding heart.
came again when years were gone;
1t was IA man L looked upon;
lie still that early impress bore,
And I could change him never more.
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