ss qualified is he for deep moral |
| and intellectual reasoning which he is entirely unacquainted with? |
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| Furthermore. If he does think, his refined and gentle humane feelings |
| are so benumbed as to cause him not to care, it shows his spiritual |
| nature is too much deadened to teach the spirit of a pure and |
| undefiled religion which teach kindness love and attention to all men. |
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| A poisoned body, especially when chronic, deadens the nerves and clogs |
| the intellect, darkens the mind, smokes and blackens the soul to such |
| an extent he can neither teach or understand as a man ought to do by |
| nature. |
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| What think you of a preacher of Christ with a cud in his mouth |
| squirting poison at the souls he is trying to save? Is the thing |
| possible? Talk of distilling the essence of Christianity through a |
| poison worm of tobacco! O, thou tobacco-eating hypocrite! Can a body |
| that is defiled with poison and polluted with the sin of self-abuse be |
| a fit dwelling place for the Holy Ghost? How can a man who stinks like |
| a rank tobacco-pipe, call himself a fit vessel to stand before the |
| Lord to represent God and the Souls of men, to proclaim the word of |
| God while his tongue is reeking in deadly poison and his brain |
| befuddled with its influence? O, thou worse than Baalam! Would that |
| every ass might rebuke thee. |
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| It is a common thing for temperance lecturers to denounce alcohol on |
| the strength of tobacco, that is, lecture with a cud in their mouths. |
| Now this is mean. There should be honor among thieves. Don't laugh at |
| and taunt your brother, wallowing there in the mud, while your own |
| mouth is full of a thousand times filthier filth. Don't grow poetical |
| on the "drunkard's aspen hand," when your own poisoned nerves will |
| quiver worse than his if you should abstain from your quid three |
| hours. You have yet to learn that tobacco produces delirium tremens, |
| which you so much love to