Xll TOBACCO. 



f ' Biding out of Brattleboro one Monday morn- 

 ing with Rev. Dr. Pierpont, he asked me, 'What 

 did you do yesterday ? ' f I preached to Baptist 

 Mends in the morning on the text, "'Whether ye 

 eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the 

 glory of God,'' and showed them they could not 

 glorify him by using tobacco. I addressed three 

 Sunday-schools at noon, and showed the boys that 

 tobacco leads to idleness, poverty, strong drink, 

 Vice, ill health, insanity and death. I preached to 

 the Congregational ists in "West Brattleboro in the 

 afternoon on the text, "That which is highly es- 

 teemed among men is abomination in the sight of 

 God," showing them that men highly esteemed to- 

 bacco, but God abhorred it. I lectured in the 

 evening in the town hall to a noble bod}' of young 

 men on the destructive effects of tobacco.' 



"The poet exclaimed in surprise, 'A piodigious 

 worker!' Then musing a moment, added, r I will 

 give you your epitaph.' In a Hudibrastic sort of 

 verse which I cannot repeat, he said in substance : 

 1 "We have great men enough, philosophers 

 enough, poets enough, geniuses enough, D. D.'s 

 enough, L. L. D 's enough. The world needs work- 

 ers. Here lies one.''' This is your epitaph.' 



I take a few specimens from the journal of Mr. 

 Trask's warfare on tobacco, which he says "are the 

 off-hand record of the rough and tumble incident 

 to the early stages f this reform, when to assault 

 tobacco in the shape of a smoker, chewer, snuffer 



