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that the students are forbidden the use of tobacco 

 in any form. 



Bishop of Kansas : " The enormous consumption 

 of tobacco is one of the crying evils of the day. 

 It is destroying the health of our youth, and vitiat- 

 ing the powers of early manhood." 



Bishop Grafton, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin : "I 

 have known the influence of many a clergyman in- 

 jured by the tobacco habit, and sometimes their 

 health seriously impaired, even their lives lost by 

 it. The late Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland, 

 spoke most strongly against it. The Methodist 

 ministers have given a noble example of discipline 

 to churchmen in making, since 1850, total absti- 

 nence and the disuse of tobacco a condition of en- 

 trance into their ministry. It would be well if we 

 did the same." 



Bishop Gillespie, of Western Michigan: "I 

 abominate the filthy weed. It is especially a grief 

 to me that the clergy will use it. I think our 

 theological seminaries should expel any student 

 who perseveres in chewing or smoking. I know 

 clergymen whose usefulness has been as thoroughly 

 ruined by tobacco as it could have been by drink." 



Bishop De Wolfe Howe, of Central Pennsylva- 

 nia, the oldest bishop in the American Church : 

 " Tobacco is not a specific — as far as I am in- 

 formed — for any human ailment ; it is revolting 

 to the natural taste ; it occasions the loss of much 

 precious time ; it unfits one for attendance on the 



