+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | CHAPTER 2. | | | | TOBACCO FROM A MORAL STAND-POINT. | | | | | | Go to our jails and penitentiaries and you will find their inmates, | | almost to a man, tobacco-eaters and alcohol drinkers. As the chameleon | | takes its color from the object it is attached to, so does the mind of | | man, from the body it is attached to. No wonder, then, that a brain | | poisoned, will suggest poisoned thoughts, criminal thoughts and acts. | | O that preachers might know this, or, knowing it, might act on it in | | their efforts to regenerate man's moral nature. Let them commence at | | the root of evil to remove it. Evil, like a Cancer, while the root | | remains the canker grows worse. Mind and body is united in every | | effort, if the main spring is weakened so is the stroke. "A bitter | | fountain can not send forth a pleasant stream." | | | | When we undertake to reform a man the first thing is to see that the | | brain is healthy; not poisoned and diseased. For an unhealthy organ | | can not perform healthy functions. You might as well try to improve | | the sense of smell with the nose stuffed full of snuff, as to try to | | improve the moral sense while it is poisoned with the essence of | | snuff. Try to change a man's heart that is palpitating with poison and | | lusting for more! If you wish to be a successful soul doctor, you must | | commence at the seat of all moral diseases; a poisoned and disordered | | mind. Take the poison out of him first, and keep it out for at least | | thirty days, until the brain can begin to have its natural healthy | | action, and then he will arise and walk in dry places seeking rest. | | | | We affirm, and shall prove in the course of our lecture, that tobacco | | obtudes and destroys the moral as well as every other sense of the | | human intellect. Proof. When you see a habitual tobacco user in the | | company of his friends you will see him either squirting his poison |