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Page 47 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 123 - I cannot but regard as the curse of the present age. I mean smoking. . Now, don't be frightened, my young friends : I am not going to give a sermon against smoking — that is not my business ; but it is my business to point out to you all the various and insidious causes of general paralysis, and smoking is one of them.
Page 122 - It is now many years since my attention was called to the insidious but positively destructive effects of tobacco on the human system. I have seen a great deal of its influence upon those who use it and work in it. Cigar and snuff manufacturers have come under my care in...
Page 91 - Conference recommends to the Annual Conferences to require candidates for admission to be free from the habit, as hurtful to their acceptability and usefulness among our people.
Page 76 - It is truly melancholy to witness the great number of the young who smoke now-a-days; and it is painful to contemplate how many promising youths must be stunted in their growth, and enfeebled in their minds, before they arrive at manhood.
Page 91 - ... the following resolutions: "1. That the tobacco-habit is an enormous evil ; and, on account of its waste of money, positive injuries to health, and pernicious example to the young, Christians ought to abandon it. 2. That this Association earnestly recommend to all our Churches thorough measures for instructing the people as to the manifold mischiefs flowing from the use of narcotic drugs, as well as drinks; and that special efforts be made to guard children and youth from any and every use of...
Page 70 - ... schools ; and we see what is the practical working of that wearisome profanation of the Sabbath in which they were then initiated. — No ; we never ought to be satisfied with any scheme of education which does not leave the Sunday free. On that day the children and their parents should be together from the time they rise in the morning till they go to bed at night, — at church together, walking together, conversing together, reading together. By such Sabbath intercourse both parties are intellectually,...
Page 38 - And this being the first that ever came to England, sir Walter thought he could do no less than make a present of some of the brightest of it to his royal mistress, for her own smoking.
Page 164 - As proof of this, every homestead from the Atlantic border to the head of tide-water is a mournful monument. It has been the besom of destruction which has swept over this once fertile region.