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pline difficult, our labors hard, and the simple 

 practical truths of the gospel of little effect among 

 the lovers of pleasure." 



A Baptist missionary in India, writing of the 

 interest in the mission work by the native helpers, 

 states that they have resolved to abandon tobacco 

 and the betel nut, which has a similar effect, and 

 to give the money thus saved to the good cause. 

 Why not send some of these converted, sin-renoun- 

 cing Indians and South Sea Islanders as mission- 

 aries to this country, that they may exhort alike all 

 tobacco-sinners and all tobacco-Christians to cast 

 their detestable idols to the moles and the bats, and 

 to consecrate the gold and silver thus redeemed to 

 the service of the one living and true God ? 



CLAIMS OF THE TRADE. 



In addition to the clamorous appetite which sets 

 itself squarely against reform, is another formidable 

 obstacle, — the greed of grain, or, as some put it, 

 and it may be honestly, the claims of a family de- 

 pendent for their daily bread on the culture, the 

 manufacture, or the sale of tobacco. The extent 

 to which moneyed interests have become involved 

 in this wretched business appears in the vast 

 amount expended for the drug throughout the 

 world, with the immense revenue it brings to the 

 various governments. The arguments thus result- 

 ing for the continuance of the traffic are only too 

 familiar to those who have fought in our anti-slav- 

 ery and our temperance battles. 



