34 TOBACCO AND ITS HISTOBY. 



tliat railway directors liave smoking-cars la})ellecl — ^' For the 

 'ituchan," and allow none but smokers to enter them. 



Many christians are giving up the use of tobacco under con- 

 viction that the habit is morally wrong and ought to be aban- 

 doned ; and those who have left it off for a few years invariably 

 testify that their health is better for its disuse. A number of 

 well-known gentlemen in Ht. John could l)e named who are 

 living witnesses to this fact, one of whom retains, as a remem- 

 brancer of his former bondage, the last unused "iig" which he 

 purchased fourteen years ago. 



The Salvation Army absolutely refuses recruits to its ranks 

 who use tobacco, under the })lea that " God cannot and will 

 not dwell in a smoking house ; and moreover, that those wlio 

 profess Christianity should endeavour to- be cleansed from all 

 i\w\v JiWilnvss and from all their idols." 



Gentlemen of spirit are beginning to question the jiropriety 

 of indulging a habit for which they 7)iiisl. apologize in polite 

 society. They consider it humiliating. 



Her Majesty Queen Victoria has i)rohibited smoking in 

 Windsor Castle. Tidings from distant lands intimate that 

 those who undertake to instruct the heathen must have clean 

 hands and pun; hearts, in order to be able to win souls for 

 Christ. One report reads : '• For God's sake keep your wretched 

 stuff at home and don't degiade my people." Another states: 

 " If the cursed v'ccd and Jire under you bring to us are the 

 fiuits of Christianity we don't want it." Even the poor Hindoo, 

 brands Christians in their land who use tobacco or spirits as 

 "drunkards" to be shunned. 



These and other indications of true reform, evidently now 

 begun in the right direction, insjiire the confidence, that as sure 

 as Dagon fell before the Ark of the God of Israel, so surely 

 shall the idol lucutlne which the world adores, be shattered 

 before the invading host of an enlightened public opinion. 



