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of all the consequences. And He did, in the most 

 surprising and beautiful way. 



" I could no more have made a sermon than 1 

 could have built a locomotive. And this continued 

 for five weeks, in which I was wrapped in f an horror 

 of great darkness, and the very hair of my flesh 

 stood up.' 



" At length my mind, long eclipsed, came out like 

 the moon when it has swept past the shadow . . . 

 and if my whole life-work is not being better done 

 and upon a higher plane, as I hope it is, I have a 

 f comfort in my conscience ' which is to me of in- 

 calculable value." 



FIXAL APPEAL. 



The Levites were required to be thoroughly clean 

 and pure. And even among the lamas, or priests, 

 the rules of Buddha strictly interdicted the use 

 of tobacco. Shall the Christian priesthood be 

 behind the Levitical or the Buddhist ? Shall that 

 be allowed in our churches which would not for 

 one moment have been tolerated in Jewish, Chinese, 

 or Indian temples ? 



It were blasphemous to imagine the Master and 

 his disciples chewing or smoking, as they sat to- 

 gether on the mountain's side or sailed over Lake 

 Gennesaret, or passed from the Supper to the 

 Garden. Who does not shudder at the bare thought, 

 inveterate chewer or smoker though he be ! 



And must we have tobacco-chewers in the Lord's 

 house ! Spittoons in the pews and in the pulpit — 



