| fluid over his friend's hearth, house, floor, and stove, and breathing | | his loathsome poisonous breath into the face of his friend, or pouring | | his poison smoke into the eyes, nose, and lungs of all present. When | | all present are coughing strangling and almost out of breath; they say | | please don't smoke any more in the house. Then comes the oft' repeated | | "Excuse me I did not think." Can a moral man so far intrude upon the | | health, happiness and peace, even of a race of cannibals? "I did not | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 8 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | think," is an acknowledgment that his thinking faculties are not in | | order. That is what we know. | | | | Now, it is no use to tell me that a man who can't think, what he is | | doing in small moral and social points of good breeding, with which he | | is every day familiar. How much less qualified is he for deep moral | | and intellectual reasoning which he is entirely unacquainted with? | | | | Furthermore. If he does think, his refined and gentle humane feelings | | are so benumbed as to cause him not to care, it shows his spiritual | | nature is too much deadened to teach the spirit of a pure and | | undefiled religion which teach kindness love and attention to all men. | | | | A poisoned body, especially when chronic, deadens the nerves and clogs | | the intellect, darkens the mind, smokes and blackens the soul to such | | an extent he can neither teach or understand as a man ought to do by | | nature. | | | | What think you of a preacher of Christ with a cud in his mouth | | squirting poison at the souls he is trying to save? Is the thing | | possible? Talk of distilling the essence of Christianity through a | | poison worm of tobacco! O, thou tobacco-eating hypocrite! Can a body | | that is defiled with poison and polluted with the sin of self-abuse be | | a fit dwelling place for the Holy Ghost? How can a man who stinks like | | a rank tobacco-pipe, call himself a fit vessel to stand before the | | Lord to represent God and the Souls of men, to proclaim the word of | | God while his tongue is reeking in deadly poison and his brain | | befuddled with its influence? O, thou worse than Baalam! Would that | | every ass might rebuke thee.