Ton Arm. 7.1 



Only LjliiiK'c over the uvor-wi.leiiiuij: aiva of inisory and dosola- 

 tion ! Arc stioiiLjcr reasons needed for the al»andonnient of 



t lie \v(M'd ? 



]»arents, if yon are not inrjared to ehange your mode of life, 

 V«)U can warn your eliil<len of their dani^'er, and encourage them 

 to act, the jKirt of safety. We would urge you, iiowever, to 

 make a desperate etlorl to put a l.attleuient (Deut. xxii, 8) 

 around your conduct lest some of the children shoidd fall over 



into hell. 



To the lahoring classes, who, it is estimated, annually expend 

 half the money that is spent for Tobacco, we woidd earnestly 

 appeal, and entreat you no longer to harter your nu-ans of hap- 

 ])iuess, and to refrain froui fostering this great canker-worm on 

 j'our rhildien. It is a low, tlegi'ading, short-lived gratitication, 

 "the tilth that borders drunkenness," which at last hiteth like 

 a serpent and slingetli like an adder. 



('an we, as a Christian i)eople, he so stupid in apathy a.'? to 

 ennni\e at this sin. it .seems litth' .short of heatlu'uish to say 

 thai Tobacco is not good, but we like it ; it is not good, 

 but large fortunes are made by it; it is not good, but an 

 immen.se r(>venne is derived therefrom. No uiatter what appe 

 tite craves it, oi' how large a fortune or rexenue comes from it, 

 it is the means of unich good or much evil. The trallic is right 

 or wrong. "If the Lord be Uod, follow Jlim; Imt if liaal l)e 

 Ciod, then follow him." One thing is certain, we cannot serve 

 ( Jod !ind ^Fammon. 



Prohil)ition of Toliacco is ceitainly needed, and tiu' Christian 

 CInnch should not accpiiesce or despair, but agitat(> this pro- 

 hibition and work for it, for the boys can be saved from this 

 degrading slaveiy and TAidiiT to use their inlluonce aright, 

 and TiiKV WILL have this evil banished when they stand at the 



helm. 



Do not thiidc the subject is exhausted, for it is not. It is so 

 large that it is impo.ssibh> to do justice to it in an essay ; it is 

 impossible to bring to view its many hidden evils. We are 



