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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| think," is an acknowledgment that his thinking faculties are not in |
| order. That is what we know. |
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| 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 le