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something else must be added to the above. 

 You would suppose, of course, after the 

 above confession, and with renewed health 

 and strength, the doctor would never touch 

 tobacco again. The above is well known, 

 or I would not publish it; but some time 

 afterward a woman said that Dr. Hard was 

 again smoking. I told her she must be 

 mistaken — it could not be. When I over- 

 hauled the doctor he said he smoked only a 

 little — only once in a wliile. 



I mention this matter in order to illus- 

 trate how loath Satan is to lose his clutches 

 when he once gets a man in his gi-asp. One 

 more instance : 



A prominent member of our church had 

 brief periods of blindness. The doctors 

 could not help him; but when he cut out 

 tobacco all of those bad symptoms disap- 

 peared. He told about it in prayer-meet- 

 ing, and gave it as a warning to the young- 

 er ones. Well, somebody told me that this 

 man was again using tobacco, and he gave 

 as an explanation that he smoked a little 

 when he called to see his old father. He 

 said it did his father much good to sit down 

 and have a friendly smoke with him. Once 

 more : 



A certain druggist with whom I have 

 been well acquainted pretty much all of my 

 life was taken with nervous prostration. He 

 was not able to do business nor anything 

 else. In fact, it made his life a burden. 

 His father-in-law, with whom I was also well 

 acquainted, was a physician. Now consid- 

 er how difficult it is for a physician to ad- 

 vise a patient to give up the use of tobacco 

 when he himself is using it. But notwith- 

 standing this, this doctor advised his son- 

 in-law to give up cigars, or at least reduce 

 the number, for he was then smoking at 

 least 25 a day. I think he was in the habit 

 of smoking more than he realized. With a 

 bright and smiling face he came to me and 

 told me about it. He knew how I had all 

 my life been opposed to the use of tobacco. 

 As soon as he stopped the use of cigars, all 

 the trouble vanished ; and altho many years 

 have passed since then he is now strong and 

 well. 



You will notice in one of the extracts I 

 have made, something about the cigarette 

 habit. I do not think any dealer in Medina 

 sells cigarettes ; but the boys of our juvenile 

 schools are getting them in some way. Per- 

 haps that notice about getting the names of 

 boys, page 442, will help to explain. Well, 

 reader, bow do you suppose these boys 

 found a place out of sight to smoke cigar- 

 ettes? They got a board loose on the end 

 of the shed nearest the schoolhouse, and 

 went into the horse-shed belonging to the 

 Congregational church to do their smoking. 



We found a lot of tigareUe papers Svallercd 

 all over in one corner, out of sight, and our 

 good pastor surprised four schoolboys when 

 they were smoking. Is the Great American 

 Tobacco Co. really bigger than the United 

 States, thus to defy and trample under foot 

 not only our state laws but the laws of the 

 nation? I think the above will give you 

 some vivid illustrations of that beautiful 

 Bible text, " Whatsoever a man soweth, that 

 shall he also reap." 



While tlie matter is up before us let us 

 consider the following, which I clip from 

 the New York Times for May 28, 1916: 



SAVS GEN. F. D. GRANT WAS CANCER VICTIM; DR. 

 ABBE BLAMES TOBACCO HABIT, INHERITED VROU 

 FATHER, FOR FATAL THROAT AFFECTION ; BOTH 

 CONSTANT SMOKERS; SURGEON TELLS OF EXCES- 

 SIVE INDULGENCE AND SAYS HABIT IS TRANSMIT- 

 TED TO OFFSPRING. 



The real cause of the death of General Frederick 

 Dent Grant at the Hotel Buckingham on April 11, 

 1912, was made public yesterday for the first time. 

 He died of cancer of the throat superinduced by the 

 excessive use of tobacco. His father, General Ulys- 

 ses S. Grant, died from the same cause, and the 

 malignant growth was attributed to the same agency. 



The facts regarding the death of the younger 

 Grant are contained in the following paragraph from 

 an article by Dr. Robert Abbe, senior surgeon to St. 

 Luke's hospital (who was with him when he died), 

 on "The Legacy of the Intemperate Use of Tobacco," 

 which appeared in yesterday's issue of The Medical 

 Record : 



" I could not help reminding him (a patient) that 

 one of our great national heroes smoked incessantly, 

 as every one knew, and suffered and died from the 

 consequence of disease of his throat. His distin- 

 guished son, also heroic figure in our army, adopted 

 the same habit, smoked equally incessantly, and 

 suffered and died of the same terrible consequence. 

 This is a heavy price to pay for the intemperate 

 indulgence of such a throat-irritating and unnatural 

 habit." 



I close this paper on- the tobacco habit 

 with the following: 



PROMOTION ONLY FOR THOSE WHO NEITHER 

 DRINK NOR SMOKE. 



We clip the following from the Sunday- 

 school Thnes : 



Schwab's reply. 

 ..Let each man prove his own work. General 

 Wheeler was talking with Mr. Schwab, head of the 

 great steel combine, arvd we asked him, " Is it true 

 that in these big corporations, other things being 

 equal, the man is promoted who neither drinks nor 

 smokes ? " Mr. Schwab answered that that was the 

 invariable rule in dealing with two or three hundred 

 thousand employees under him. " When two men," 

 he said, " Men equal in skill, preference is given to 

 the abstainer and non-smoker. — From The Christian 

 Herald. Sent by J. A. Clark, Greetland, Halifax, 

 England. 



The above is a surprise to me in two 

 ways. First, that we have in our land an 

 institution that employs the enormous num- 

 ber of between 200,000 and 300,000 men. 

 Second, that our great factories, railroad 

 companies, and other institutions have be- 

 gun to comprehend not only that a drinking 



