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indulgence for his Master's sake. I cannot get rid 

 of the notion of incongruity between a pure heart 

 and a foul mouth; a breath now laden with the 

 utterance of inspired truth, and now with fumes 

 of tobacco." 



Think of a smoking clergyman standing at the 

 communion table, on which are spread the emblems 

 of that self-sacrificing Love that surpasses mortal 

 conception ! Think of him as ministering to suffer- 

 ing and disease ; — as approaching the bedside of 

 a sick member of his flock, and being feebly waved 

 away because of the offensive odor radiating from 

 his whole person ! A dying woman was so affected 

 by the tobacco-breath of her pastor as he leaned 

 down and talked with her, that she begged her 

 friends to employ at her funeral a minister who 

 would breathe no poison over her coffin. 



A gentleman who had listened with deep in- 

 terest to a powerful sermon from a distinguished 

 theological professor, was greatly surprised the 

 next day to see him smoking a cigar, and confessed 

 that the sight destroyed the impression of the 

 sermon. He adds, — "A young man trying to 

 reform from this habit remarked to me, — f Never 

 say anything against it again, when a man who can 

 preach such a sermon as that was yesterday in- 

 dulges in it.'" 



Says a well-known clergyman in addressing his 

 brethren, — w Do you say, — f I am not going, be- 

 cause there are weak men in this world, to deny 

 myself any lawful and proper pleasure.' Then 



