The tobacco curse: with weighty reasons why Christians should abstain from it / by Silas Henn.

  • Henn, Silas.
Date:
[1880?]
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Credit: The tobacco curse: with weighty reasons why Christians should abstain from it / by Silas Henn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TOBACCO CURSE: WITH WEIGHTY REASONS WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM IT, By SIIxAS HKKN. The Christian conscience has been wonderfully quickened of late years on the subject of tobacco, and no Christian can use it without injury to his piety, and lowering himself in the estimation of the angels and sanctified believers. There is so much light now scattered far and near on the evils of smoking, and the awful waste of money thus expended, that men cannot pass now for saintly men if they indulge in the use of the weed. There is a sharp line drawn now between men of clean and men of unclean mouths. The drink curse has long since been considered our greatest national curse; the tobacco curse must take rank next to it. There is not a doubt but tens of thousands injure their health, and vast numbers also ruin their health, and die prematurely, victims of the cursed habit of smoking. But its immediate effects on the system are of such a lulling tendency that the myriads who use it are deceived by it. Before a person spends money in tobacco, he is bound to ascertain whether any benefit can be derived from it. It is not enough to say that it produces gratification. Money should not be spent on mere indulgence of the appetites, for money is a talent, lor the right use of which we shall be hell responsible. Does it really benefit us? is the great