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and so, soon ascending the platform, addressed two 

 thousand children. To avoid taking cold, he kept 

 on his cap, forgetting what it contained. At the 

 close he exclaimed, "Xow, boys, let us give three 

 rousing cheers for temperance." Lifting his hat, 

 he waved it vigorously, flinging the cigars right 

 and left at his audience ! ! And it is not strange 

 that this occurrence set him thinking. 



At a later period, being a guest at an English 

 house, he sought the river-bank for a quiet smoke. 

 Finding it difficult to light his cigar, he got down 

 on his knees by a rock, sheltering a match with 

 his hat, while he puffed. Suddenly the thought 

 flashed on him that, if people should see him, they 

 would conclude that he had sought this spot for 

 private devotion. " And what am I doing? What 

 would the audience say who heard me last 

 night?" The conviction of his inconsistency 

 struck him so forcibly that he exclaimed, "I '11 

 have no more of it ; " and away into the river went 

 both matches and cigars. 



TOBACCO BONDAGE. 



It is seldom that we find one who entirely justifies 

 himself in the tobacco habit, while many and many 

 a good man groans under his self-imposed bondage 

 — a bondage not one whit less degrading because 

 of the high standing and excellent Christian char- 

 acter of the victim. The wonder is how anyone 

 can forbear groaning, and repenting, and forsaking. 



A clergyman, enslaved to snuff, labored with a 



