rehensive that one is mostly spared the pain of irretrievable |
| errors. |
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| If instead of exerting reflection in so critical a moment you deliver |
| yourselves up to levity, sloth and slavery of habit and poison, what |
| can you expect to follow? Will wisdom tread the path of folly? Can you |
| thus abuse both the mind and body, and call yourselves unspotted from |
| the world, or call yourselves the children of a pure God? O thou |
| spiritual blind guide! Where are you leading the people to by precept |
| and example? You have led and allowed the nations to walk into the |
| ditch. |
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| Habit is harder to serve than a king, and its taxes are greater, for |
| they not only come yearly, but daily and hourly, on body, mind and |
| pocket. You are bound in her chains and must answer her calls. |
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| O man of sorrow, whose life is interwoven with the ills of the earth! |
| Could I but speak to you in the language of the truth or had I but |
| room to draw the picture as it is, I think your reason would revolt at |
| its use, and break its chains, bidding defiance to the deadly grasp of |
| its seditious habits. |
| |
| ----When you become satisfied that tobacco is injurious to you. If you |
| have not courage to divorce the habit at once and had rather steal |
| away from its grasp unconsciously and without the desire for tobacco, |
| or the use of medicine, just send 50 cts. in money or stamps to the |
| office of the GOSPEL MONITOR. HANNIBAL, MO. And we will send you the |
| RULINGS OF NATURE. A printed formula showing how nature in that case |
| restores her own equilibrium, and throws off the former poison and |
| prevents the craving of a fresh supply. In clubs of 20 or more, we |
| will send them for 25 cts. each. The rule is short and easily |
| understood. |
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