HISTORICAL SKETCH. XV 



"Called at a school in Boston to drop a word 

 touching pernicious habits. The teacher assures 

 me it would not be best. f My scholars are from 

 rich and fashionable families which smoke, and it 

 will not do to forbid the boys to do what their 

 fathers practise.' The Lord have mercy on gen- 

 teel families and genteel schools in this city of no- 

 tions ! 



"May 13. — On my route to Waltham. Three 

 red cents in my treasury to hire a hall, pay my 

 board and battle the most popular of all narcotics. 

 God give me grit and grace.' 



"Cambridge, July 20. — Commencement. A 

 class of eighty-eight were graduated. With rare 

 exceptions the young men were pale, lank and 

 lean — the pitiable victims of smoke. This is 

 Cambridge College in 1853. How was it in 1650 ? 

 'No scholar shall take tobacco, unless permitted 

 by the president, with the consent of their parents 

 or guardians, and on good reasons first given by a 

 physician, and then in a sober and private man- 

 ner.' 



"I met an admirable woman, a clergyman's wife, 

 who said : c My husband preached an excellent ser- 

 mon on self-denial one Sabbath, and as he came 

 down from the pulpit I said, "Husband, that is a 

 good sermon. Now go home, drop tobacco, and 

 put it into practice." He did.' Luther says, 'The 

 sweetest thing in the world is the heart of a pious 

 woman.' Brother Martin, I sincerely believe it. 



