ANTI-TOBACCO. 1 7 



sion of the vital energies. It is the taking on, one after 

 another, of the ills flesh is heir to, until a man lives only a 

 half life, or a quarter life, where God intended he should 

 live a whole life. One of the most melancholy of all spec- 

 tacles is a chronic invalid, — one who can neither live nor 

 die, and whose prayer might well be that of the Apostle 

 who exclaimed, " Who shall deliver me from the body of 

 this death?" 



A man in the cityj vexed and worried by business, or 

 one worn down in the country by hard manual labor, may 

 feel a temporary quieting of the nerves, or a gentle stim- 

 ulus to the mental and physical energies, by his pipe or 

 his glass ; but all, and more than all, that is gained in one 

 direction is lost in another. Temporary relief is pur- 

 chased at the fearful cost of a lasting blow to the nervous 

 system. The chief reason why men in the press and wear 

 of society find their nerves so unstrung and shattered, is 

 because they have early resorted to stimulants and 

 narcotics, in place of the appropriate rest and nutrition 

 which nature demands. They have so far perverted the 

 instincts of nature that they cannot get along except by 

 re-enforcing themselves by artificial and injurious stimu- 

 lants and substitutes, and thus maintaining a kind of 

 counterfeit strength. A victim of daily doses of rum and 

 tobacco often cannot write his name straight, until he has 

 steadied his trembling hand by a glass of liquor or a 

 cigar. He is simply a sick man, and does not know it-j 

 but the day is not far distant when he will know it. 



Particular Diseases Caused, by the Use of Tobacco, 



Professor Miller, of Edinburgh, says ("Tobacco, and the 

 Diseases it produces ") : " As medical men, we know that 



