Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-02-23
TOBACCO, CHOLERA, AND THEIR CON.
TAGIoNs.
BY GEORGE M. POWELL.

The eminent DR.. Lizars says: During
the prevalence of cholera l have had
repeated opportunities of observing
that individuals addicted to the use of
tobacco are more disposed to attacks
of the disease, and generally in its
most maligant and a fatal form"
DR.. Willard Parker, long at the head
of the medical profession in New York
City, said: "All who smoke or chew,
are more apt to die in epidemics than
other people,"
DR.. o. NJ. Stone, of Boston, said: 1.-THE
idea that tobacco prevents diseases is
an error. A tobacco users chances Of
recovery from any malignant disease
are lessened fifty per cent"
Capt. G. B. Pettingill, who for many
years commanded vessels trading be-
tween Boston and Cuba, Mexico and
South America, said: "Verv few tobac-
co users recover from yellow fever. l
once lost half my crew with it in Ha-
vana. Every mar who died used to-
bacco, and every one who lived did not
use it,"
DR.. Harris, of the New York City
Dispensary, where more diseases are
treated than in any other place in
America, says: ut is scarcely possible
to cure a syphilitic sore, OF unite a
fractured bone in a devoted smoker. F"
The London Lancet says: mo
smoker can be a well man."
Pasteur has placed himself on record
by stating that when bitten by a mad
dog, a man who habitually uses intox-
icating liquors is harder to cure than
n who abstains from them.
An investigation at one of the great
public hospitals in Paris recently show
ed that Of 81 patients who suffered from
epilepsy go were children of drunken
parents.
When cholera broke out in Hamburg
the newspapers printed innumerable
warnings against the excessive use of
beer during the plague, but the warn
ing passed UNDECIDED II the lower dis
tricts where the epidemic was worst.
While the consumption of all liquor,
except wine, practically ceased in the
middle class population, beer was TAX
en- in large quantities by the poor.
In the harbor district the drunkenness
among the unemployed exceeds any
thing before seen there. Families spend
their last copper for liquor to still the
pangs-of hunger and their apprehen-
sion, scores paying for their ignorance,
folly or addiction to their beer drink
ing habits with their lives.
FACTS ON THE COMMUNION WINE
QUESTION.
/ am not sure there is need to say
more on the wine question" nor do I
fiatter myself that anything l may
write will avail much to secure uni
formity of opinion and practice in the
church. And now, if l had only opin-
ion to give, / should write nothing.
Many years ago the church to which /
belong used such wine. In its mem
bers was an old man who in early life
had formed the habit of drinking, and
to excess. He was not q strong man
but I believe a sincere Christian and
now in heaven. He was a member of
my Bible class, and keenly enjoyed
the study Of Gods word. He remem-
bered his old fault and prayerfully
sought to avoid it, and his friends tried
to shield and help him. On a Monday
morning after our communion service
q friend told me that he had seen this
mar enter a certain saloon. l imme-
diately sought him and found him in
the place indicated, and drunk. / took
him by the arm and led him to his
home and family. When he was him.
self again I satisfied myself that his
old appetite was rekindled by the vile
at the communion table. I reported
the matter to the session and we at
once resolved not again to place this
snare in the way of this weak brother
or any other. We had no difficulty in
finding pure and unfermented fruit
of the vine. and have used no other
since. The mischief we had done was
more excusable than a repetition of
the act with this example before us.
We do not admit the propriety of fix
ing up any substitute for the fruit of
the vine" that we get pure and SIM
pie, but without alcohol, and by its
use we cease to put a stumbling block
or an occasion to fall in our brother
way. Is not that the better way?
d. B. G.