unces.

"'Is it strange, then that smokers and chewers have a thousand ailments?
that German physicians attribute one half of the deaths among the young
men of that country to tobacco? that the French Polytechnic Institute
had to prohibit its use on account of its effects on the mind? that men
grow dyspeptic, hypochondriac, insane, delirious from its use?

"'One of the direct effects of tobacco is to weaken the heart. Notice
the multitude of sudden deaths and see how many are smokers and chewers.
In a small country town seven of these 'mysterious providences' occurred
within the circuit of a mile, all directly traceable to tobacco; and any
physician, on a few moments' reflection, can match this fact by his own
observation.

"'And then such powerful acids produce intense irritation and
thirst--thirst which water does not quench. Hence a resort to cider and
beer. The more this thirst is fed, the more insatiate it becomes, and
more fiery drink is needed.

"'Out of seven hundred convicts examined at the New York state prison,
six hundred were confined for crimes committed under the influence of
liquor, and five hundred said they had been led to drink by the use of
tobacco."[G]

[Footnote G: J.E. Vose, in the "Family Christian Almanac," for 1876.]

"Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm! ah ha! that's strongly put," remarked Mr.
Lilburn, reflectively. "I'm afraid I'll have to give it up. What say
you, sir?" turning to Mr. Daly, "has a man a right to a choice in such a
matter as this? a right to injure his body--to say nothing of the
mind--by a self-indulgence the pleasure of which seems to him to
overbalance the possible or probable suffering it may cause?"

"No, sir; 'What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and
in your spirit which are God's.'"

"Right, sir, I was thinking of those words of the apostle, and also
of these other, 'If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.'

"We certainly have no right to injure our bodies either by neglect or
self-indulgence. 'Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
Christ?' and again, 'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service.'"

"It must requ