eligion, |
| logic, and science, 50 cts. a year. It is the only religious paper not |
| walled in by creeds, and the only one whose columns are always open to |
| its opponents, whether Infidel, Christian, or Idolator, It stands upon |
| its own merit and asks for the criticisms and communications of the |
| ablest writers. |
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| We will defend the Right at all risks, and expose the Wrong at our own |
| risk. Read the Monitor. |
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| CHAPTER 2. |
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| TOBACCO FROM A MORAL STAND-POINT. |
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| Go to our jails and penitentiaries and you will find their inmates, |
| almost to a man, tobacco-eaters and alcohol drinkers. As the chameleon |
| takes its color from the object it is attached to, so does the mind of |
| man, from the body it is attached to. No wonder, then, that a brain |
| poisoned, will suggest poisoned thoughts, criminal thoughts and acts. |
| O that preachers might know this, or, knowing it, might act on it in |
| their efforts to regenerate man's moral nature. Let them commence at |
| the root of evil to remove it. Evil, like a Cancer, while the root |
| remains the canker grows worse. Mind and body is united in every |
| effort, if the main spring is weakened so is the stroke. "A bitter |
| fountain can not send forth a pleasant stream." |
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| When we