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jurious moral tendency ; and it is setting a mis- 

 chievous example to our youth. 



"If what the State Convention said in 1869 is 

 true, then the pews say, without any hesitation or 

 mental reservation, that no man who is in the habit 

 of using tobacco ought to enter the pulpit to preach 

 the Gospel as a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ 

 until he renounces the habit. 



" It may seem hard to say it, dear Christian 

 brother, but it is none the less true that the know- 

 ledge that you were in the habit of using tobacco 

 would completely destroy your influence, and 

 render it impossible for you to do any good to a 

 large portion of many of the Christian congre- 

 gations of the land, should you stand in their pres- 

 ence to speak as a Christian minister." 



Bishop Huntington, of Syracuse, writes: "I 

 could give you many reasons why the use of this 

 narcotic seems to me especially incongruous with 

 the calling of the ministry, which it is a large part 

 of my duty to guard. Among them are a waste of 

 money, an injury to health, the offence sometimes 

 given physically to sick or sensitive persons, the 

 moral harm done to tender consciences, the lower- 

 ing of the sacred office in their estimation, and a 

 check put upon ministerial usefulness." 



MISSIONARY-TOBACCO. 



" What reception may we suppose the apostles 

 would have met with," inquires Dr. Rush, "had 

 they carried into the houses where they were sent 



