138 TOBACCO. 



What an idea of future blessedness ! 



As an offset to this may be given the following, 

 which was delivered on the stage at St. Louis : — 



The circus preacher told the crowd that " there 

 are some professors of the pure principles of Christ, 

 so tilth v from the use of tobacco, that if the Lord 

 put him on sentinel duty, when they arrived at the 

 haven Moody tells of, he would keep them quaran- 

 tined outside the pearly gates until they were 

 aired, and the cleansing angel had had time to per- 

 fume them, in order that they might be fitted to 

 enter into the presence of a pure and holy God." 



It is a relief to indicate the better side of minis- 

 terial influence. 



A well-known preacher, who had renounced the 

 weed on assuming the charge of a metropolitan 

 church, found that a large number of his members 

 were enslaved to the appetite. His efforts against 

 it were so earnest, that, when he left the church, 

 out of nine hundred members only one remained 

 its victim. With his smoking successor, however, 

 the people lapsed again into the old bondage. 



Some years ago, an eminent divine from the Old 

 World was invited to deliver a course of lectures 

 in the virtuous old-fashioned town of Oberlin. 

 Before the course was completed, his supply of 

 chewing-tobacco was exhausted. Making his ex- 

 tremity known to the professor in whose family he 

 was a guest, he requested that a supply might be 

 procured for him. 



As no use of the weed by professor or student is 



