236 TOBACCO. 



Twenty-five years ago he lighted his last cigar, 

 and, at the dictate of his own conscience, threw it 

 away unsmoked. The hope of humanity is in such 

 men, who, victorious over their own vices, lead 

 the young safely into paths where all temptations 

 to slow suicide cease to be attractive. Xo men 

 more than the ex-slaves are destined to prize 

 liberty, and especially if they have won it for 

 themselves. 



I cannot better close this chapter than in the fol- 

 lowing earnest words by that untiring soldier in this 

 warfare, President John Bascom, D.D., L.L.D. : 



"Many sages in various forms of philosophy, 

 many saints in diverse phases of faith, have in- 

 sisted on the conflict between lower and higher 

 impulses in man, between the flesh and the spirit. 

 "We have some additional wisdom as to the best 

 method of stilling this strife , as to the way in which 

 the two sets ot powers are to find their union in 

 higher forms of work ; but the strife itself remains 

 an early and unavoidable fact in moral and spirit- 

 ual life. The trio of evil influences in Christianity 

 is still the world, tlie flesh, and the devil. Cer- 

 tainly the use of tobacco belongs on the wrong side 

 of this enduring struggle into which we all enter 

 singly and collectively. It belongs to the flesh, 

 and smacks, at times, of both the other two. This 

 habit gains ground at the expense of emotional 

 refinement and spiritual force. 



" There is scarcely a smoker to be found that 

 does not, at some time, in a careless way, put 



