10 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | When beginning to act that part, what can be of greater interest to | | you, than to throw off the poison chains of mental slavery, keeping | | both mind and body free from such abject servitude. Freedom of mind | | and body insures health, long life and happiness. When the whole of | | the machinery, mental and physical, is clean, its strength and | | elasticity is so much better, its retentiveness is much more vivid and | | comprehensive that one is mostly spared the pain of irretrievable | | errors. | | | | If instead of exerting reflection in so critical a moment you deliver | | yourselves up to levity, sloth and slavery of habit and poison, what | | can you expect to follow? Will wisdom tread the path of folly? Can you | | thus abuse both the mind and body, and call yourselves unspotted from | | the world, or call yourselves the children of a pure God? O thou | | spiritual blind guide! Where are you leading the people to by precept | | and example? You have led and allowed the nations to walk into the | | ditch. | | | | Habit is harder to serve than a king, and its taxes are greater, for | | they not only come yearly, but daily and hourly, on body, mind and | | pocket. You are bound in her chains and must answer her calls. | | | | O man of sorrow, whose life is interwoven with the ills of the earth! | | Could I but speak to you in the language of the truth or had I but | | room to draw the picture as it is, I think your reason would revolt at | | its use, and break its chains, bidding defiance to the deadly grasp of | | its seditious habits. | | | | ----When you become satisfied that tobacco is injurious to you. If you | | have not courage to divorce the habit at once and had rather steal | | away from its grasp unconsciously and without the desire for tobacco, | | or the use of medicine, just send 50 cts. in money or stamps to the | | office of the GOSPEL MONITOR. HANNIBAL, MO. And we will send you the | | RULINGS OF NATURE. A printed formula showing how nature in that case | | restores her own equilibrium, and throws off the former poison and | | prevents the craving of a fresh supply. In clubs of 20 or more, we | | will send them for 25 cts. each. The rule is short and easily | | understood.