The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-03

because God was with him and
stopped their mouths. The other one
said he believed it was because Dan
iel was two-thirds grit and one-third
backbone and was not good eating
anyhow. Will-poWer is all right if
it is on Gods side.
The strength Paul meant was none
Of these. kinds of strength, good as
they are. But this is what he
meant, Be strong in the Lord and in
the power of His might II you do
not stand in His strength you are not
secure. You win fail.
mo vice surely proves more clearly
the truth of the text, sowing to the
flesh and reaping corruption han
that of the use. of the cigarette, 1t is a
vice that kills the body and the in
~tellect, No successful athlete or GYM
mast dare use cigarettes. They are
denounced by every physical trainer.
No one viii ever become proficient as
a student who uses them. An educa-
tional instructor of % years expert
ence said, I have seldom known q
young man graduating from a high
choOl who was a cigarette fiend, and
| never have known such a person to
graduate from a higher institution of
learning Their use also kills ones
business abilities. Recently one of
the great railroad companies issued a
sweeping order absolutely f~orbidding
cigarette smoking among its employees.
To use them means a d~ishonorable
discharge from the army of Japan.
IT would not say that every young
man I saw smoking a cigarette was a
brainless fop, but he surely has the
ear marks of one. I heard a man say
once that some people had a strange
idea Of a man. An exceedingly tall
collar; a very loud vest: trousers
creased to a razor edge: hair parted
squarely in the middle. and a cigarette.
That's a man, according to the idea
of m but said he, I'd rather my
daughter would fall In low with a
poodle dog than such a thing and
many a father will respond, Hear!
Heart
"Burdette calls the cigarette fiend.
A cipher with the rim knocked Off
I ppos he means he is that much
less than nothing. Certain it is that
the cigarette smoker becomes an abb
iect slave. More so frequently thar
the drunkard or gambler. Sam Jones
once said if one of these fellows should
come around his home sparkling a
daughter of his he would spit on him
and drown him. once a young man
came to me and said, Inn going wrong.
I have a fine position, but I am going
to lose it and my reputation and all if
| do not stop. ! am convinced there
is bu n way to succeed, and that
iS To hppnn1a n NhriCftnr W., lraI.
in prayer, and the brave young man
accepted Christ. When we arose I
said, You have a hard battle before
you. You are a cigarette fiend.' He.
acknowledged it and said. BY the help
of God III conquer Yes said I, by
His help you cam Two days later he
said, 7 have, succeeded, but | have
been in hell. If hell is worse than
what l have passed through, I want to
shun it. Last night said he, I got
down on my knees, laid a cigarette
before me, and prayed Almighty God
to deliver me from it's power, and He
did l imagine l hear some young
man say, He was fool-a slave He
was, and I think if you will lake an
honest look, young man, at the other
end Of your cigarette you will find
dIlolltf. olIefS came to that con-
clusion long ago.
With the sin of RIGHTEOUSNESS Mr..
Smith dealt without gloves. He said
in part:
We are told by physicians U have
neVtT heard it disputed u have had
it confirmed over and over again).
that If the poison Of a certain disease
caused by RIGHTEOUSNESS ever enters
ones blood it can never be completely
eradlcated. 1t may never appear il
the person who is the first cause o
the sin, or it may, n he may rot a.
did the soldier described; but it j!
. sure to appear and curse and damn
his posterity. Such cases are to,
, numerous for denial. The leadint
physician of 4 certain city where | haC
stated this fact to an audience of men
came to me the following day an
said: If | We're permitted to do SO,
could show you an awful proof of tina
A statement here III this town. / treatet
u young man five years g afflicted
: with that disease. l told HIM never t
> marry, but marry he did, and now il
= his home there lies a little babe, sui
! tering, rottlng, dying, the result 0
= that mans sin l pause to say, keeI
thyself pure, Tor these are the result
OF hat sin which SO surely kills. But
you ay, l would not keep compan,
With such a creature as that oil,
Wench.' Doubtless these young me
had said the same thing more thai
, once, but lust had mastered thei
manhood. Bat admit you are right
then | ask you Two questions. First
, would you, 10 satisfy evil passion, roI
:, a girl OF her virtue? If SO young MAJ
We say without hesitation, the pun
Ishntnt Of an eternal hell is toe
~lenient for you. DO you say, Neither
would l do that? Then, secondly
would you anNiOusIH. !IstfulIy wait fol
those whom someone else has led into
this awful sin? If SO, o are d party
10 the crime and as such you vii
surely receive our just punishment
DO o not know that every fallen
woman was once an innocent girl and
he victim of some tiend'S hellish
lust? Do you not know that as the
saloons cannot exist without our boys,
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