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sequence, the mother admitting that she had taken 

 the cradle into the room so that while at work she 

 might care for her child. 



That the physical effects are due solely to the 

 poisoned atmosphere created is evident from the 

 fact that many who raise tobacco do not use it, 

 some even considering this to be wrong. The 

 great argument is : — ff If I don't raise it, somebody 

 else will, and I might as well make the money as 

 anybody else." What must be the influence of 

 such reasoning upon the conscience ! It is not 

 surprising that ministers should consider the effect 

 on the moral and spiritual health to be no less 

 unfavorable than on the physical. It was the 

 remark of one not a professing Christian, — "A 

 revival need never be expected where everybody 

 is raising tobacco." There are clergymen that 

 have had experience in this line who feel that the 

 time a minister spends in a tobacco-region is vir- 

 tually wasted. 



A pastor who is laboring in the Onondaga 

 valley says : " Although I came into the place 

 without knowledge on this subject, and entirely 

 unprejudiced, yet my observation has satisfied 

 me that tobacco-raising injures the farms, impairs 

 the health, dulls the intellect, and blunts the 

 moral and religious sensibilities." 



And what shall be said of cultivating this ex- 

 hauster of the soil, this foulest, most destructive 

 of poisons in the beautiful Connecticut valley, the 

 land of the Pilgrims? A cruel matricide, which 

 Christian hands, alas ! join in perpetrating. 



