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close rooms on tlio tliiitl Hat of a tenement. Only tliink of the 

 people of the Tiiitetl States spending over s2r)0,0()0,0()0 

 annually for eigais and Tuhaceo in oth(H' forms. Thf-n add to 

 this (he waste of tinu;, ]\[any men confess that they s[)end 

 three or four hours daily (hawing- smok<> into their mouths and 

 j)iiHinL,' it out again. IFo-niueh it i-osts to demoralize men 

 tlirough this single drug, thus tilling poor-houses, prisons, work- 

 houses, lunatic asylums, hospitals, and graveyards, and hur- 

 dt'uing industrious, non-smoking, tem])ei'ate men with unjust 

 taxatiim. According to l>i'. Coles, the American Church 

 annually exjnuuls 8-">, 000,000 for Tuhacco and less than 

 !^1, 000,000 for the conversion of the world. If tin; money that 

 is spent in polluting (-'od's atmosphere with tlu^ stench of 

 otlering to tho god of a self fcii'ined, depi-aved appt>tite, were 

 given to the Christian churches, how soon would the world he 

 (luoded with the light of the glorious gos})i'l of the Son of Cod. 

 Is it wise or Christ-like to give support to a I'Ustom which so 

 poweifully countei-aets our eHorts and ahsorhs to so great an 

 extent the means which we so greatly need to cvangeli/.e the 

 world \ How wouhl the Holy J(>sus or the beloved disci])le 

 have looked chewing (piids of Tohacco or smoking I Could 

 ('hristians he brought to see it to be their duty to gi\e up 

 using this ]>oison, and to work for its banishment, because of 

 ])ersonal injury, because of injury to their children, because the 

 law of charity to those who a)'e not so lirm ol' nerve or so icso" 

 lute of ptu'pose demands that we should abstain from whatever 

 jeoji;u(li/es souls and surely it is not necessary to stop hereto 

 prove that the intemjieianee which S[)rings from its use is daily 

 leading thousands down to the chand)ers of dt'ath — how soon 

 would the miglity ri\('i' of inteiujx'rance b(> ;it a low ebb ' A 

 gentleman in the fertile \ alley of tlu^ (Connecticut recently 

 refused to rent his firm because he understooil Tobacco was to 

 be i'ais( (( on it an instance of moral (courage to be extolled. 



'I'he Anti-Tobacco Association lias set in motion an inllueuce 

 that in time must Ix^ felt in CM'rv home. The man who ridi- 



