inute for a
single drop of nicotine to kill a fullgrown cat. A single drop has killed
a rabbit in three minutes. The old tobacco-user is often cross, irritable
and liable to outbursts of passion. The memory is also quite often
impaired for the same reason. The narcotic principle, the deadly nicotine,
has become soaked into the delicate nerve-pulp, retarding its nutrition.
The nerve-centers are no longer able to hoard up their usual amount of
vital energy."--_Young Folk's Physiology._

Thus we could go on and quote volumes, if need be, but we will close our
quotations with the words of Dr. Fowler, as quoted by W. J. Henry in
"_Tobacco and Its Effects_." "The actual loss of intellectual power which
tobacco has hitherto occasioned, and is still causing in this Christian
nation, is immense. How much so, it is impossible to calculate. Many a man
who might have been respectable and useful has sunk into obscurity and
buried his talent in the earth. This commands a consideration of deepest
interest to every philanthropist, patriot and Christian in the land, and
especially to all our youth. We live in a time and under circumstances
which call for the exertion of all our intellectual strength, cultivated,
improved and sanctified to the highest measure of possibility. Error,
ignorance and sin must be met and vanquished by light and love. The eyes
of the angels are upon us. The eye of God is upon us. Shall we fetter and
paralyze our intellectual capabilities for the sake of enjoying the paltry
pleasure of tasting the most loathsome and destructive weed in the whole
vegetable kingdom?" Oh, for shame!

Tobacco is not a natural food. No one ever thinks of giving it to their
children as a food. It is a habit, something to be acquired. Whatever God
has given us as food for the sustenance of the body is natural with us and
we do not have to become habituated to its use. Where is the individual
that will deny that it is a habit? It must be, since it has to be acquired
or learned. Who will say it is a good habit? Who will deny that it is a
bad habit? Do you not think it much better that we as moral citizens, and
much more as professed Christians, leave off our bad habits?

Who dare hope of going to heaven who will not forsake his bad habits?
Reader, I appeal to your reason. You must answer me. Is it not a habit? Is
it good or bad? What shall your answer be in the judgment-day? God will
hold us responsible for the use we are making of the