Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 December 1889 — Page 3
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An Interesting Question Discussed by Famous Clergy of Two Continents.
MINISTERS WHO ENJOY THEIR CIG6.ES.
An Elder's Offer to Dr. Talmage of Free Cigers, "Which Led Kim to Stop Smoking.
(Copyrighted lfeS'j and all Rights Reserved, by The Bok Syndicate Press o£ New York.) It has always bi*en an interesting question in the minds of many whether clergymen, from point of example, should indulge in smoking. It is a common belief that the cigar in thG mouth of the minister is an injurious example to the young. Up to this time the voice of the clergy has, save in one or two scattering opinions, not been heard. Accordingly, more than a year ago, I began to secure the opinions of the most famous preachers of America and Europe, as written or ppoken by themselves especially for this publication. Whether th9 question, "Should Clergymen Smoke?" linda its solution in those opinions or not, I leave the readers to judge.
EUWAUD W. BOK.
UK. TAI..MAGE OXCE A SMOKEH. It seems to me that this question of the UEO of tobacco by clergymen is one that every minister should decide for himself. I do not, therefore, speak, for othere, but express only my own individual opinion when I say that I believe tobacco to be ruinous to one's physical health, whether he be clargy or layinnn. It is not a rapid puison. The taste for tobacco may be endured for generation?, bur. sooner or later I believe it acts disastrously in some way, either to the mind or'to the body. Nor is this a statement of glittering generalities. I know whereof I spsak.
For many years I smoked cigars, but 1 do not do so now. I would not now t.tiink of smoking a cigar any more than I would drink a vial of laudanum. came to give up the habit in this way: was living in Syracuse, N. Y., but had just bean called to Philadelphia. An elder in the Pniladelphia church to which I accepted a call offered, as one of the inducements to my coining, that he would Hive me all the cigars I wanted the rest of ray life free of charge. II9 was a wholesale tobacconist, and would have keDfc his promise. At that time cigars were higher in price than they are now, and the offer, meant the saving of a great deal of money to me. I was then smoking up to my full capacity—th'at is, I used as many cigars as health would permit. I thought to myself what would happen if I should get them free! Tho thought so appalled me that I made a resolution then and thereto stop smoking, and never touch tobacco again in any manner or form. And from that day to this I never have. Now, I would not take up smoking again for all the surplus in the treasury.
As I said before, every clergyman must settle the question for himself according to his own conscience and belief. But as for myself, smoking is utterly out of the question. It is my opinion thst many clergymen who have on their tomb-stone "DIKU IX THE LORD" might have for more appropriate epitaph "KILI.KD iiv TOBACCO." ISUOOKI.YN. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
HOWARD CIIOSUY'S VIEWS.
The question is one for each individual minister to decide. Of course I cannot say whether my brother clergymen should or should not use tobacco. It is out of the question for any man to dictate in this respect toward another and, after all, the question of smoking does not enter into one's moral life. The kingdom of God is a kingdom of righteousness, and not kingdom of what we eat or nnlt. HOWARD CKOSHY.
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JiOBEIlT COLT.VI'.i ENJOYS ITIS CICAR. Should clergymen smoke? Well, they should if they want to. TI19 question of clergymen smoking depends mainly up the cigars they use, in my opinion. 1 I want to smoke I do smoke, and it is nobody's business except perhaps my physician's. And 1 do not think that the una of tobacco has ever hurt my health physically, and I much enjoy a iod cigar. However, I think that the question of clergymen smoking is a very foolish one. A great trouble with modern society is that we Bre hemmed in and around by too many barriers. The question of clergymen using cigars is not one that cau concern the church at large. If a clergyman wants ta smoke ir, is nobody's business so long as he can atfjrd it, provided it does not hurt his institution—and be smokes good cigars. I enjoy good cigars, and intend to smoke them as often as I please. However, if the use of tobacco affected my health, of course I would drop dears instantly.
NEW YORK. ROUEKT COI.LYKR.
111!. 1'IKNESS, AT S3, STILL SMOKES. 1 have been a smoker from my youth up. It has not prevented me from reaching my SS:h year without any of the usual infirmities of old age, save a certain stiffness in stooping to pick up 0 pin. It is said that smoking leads to drinking. I think it is a mistake. It takes the place of drinking. Wero smoking abolished, I believe there would be ten drunkards where there is now only one. I have no faith in doing things for exuniple'd sake. They must be doue for their own sake then only is tho example Rood and influential.
WILLIAM HKNKY FCKXIISS.
PlULADELl'lllA.
IIE11ER NEWTON IS PREJUDICED. 1 fear that my judgment concerning the use of tobacco by clergymen is not a disinterested one. I am one of that by no means inconsiderable number of unfortunate, if not guilty, beings who can
t) not smoke themselves, and can not endure the smoke of others, and are tlways in a fix between their courtesy to smokers and th6ir regard for their own wretched nerves. To me, thus prejudiced, perhaps, the case i3 a clear one.
The sedentary habits of the parson, and the frequent overweight upon his nervous energies make the seductions of this hsbit peculiarly subtle, and at thesame time rem.fer its evil effects physically peculiarly eerious. Moreover, to a prejudiced eye like my own, it seems a very offensive habit for a "man of the spirit." I can scarcely fancy myself seeking spiritual consolation from lips wbencc- issue the odious fumes of nicotine. The smoking habit seems so clear a luxury, and withal a more or less poisonous one, that the physical offensiveness of the smoker's presence is reenforced by a certain moral offensiveness. I find smokers, as a rule, utterly inconsiderate of the discomforts thf-.t their luxury inflicts on others—a by no means clerical frama of mind. But I confess to being prejudiced, ond since some of the sweetest and best ministers I know are habitual smokers, I can only respect my own judgment.
NEW YORK. R. HEBER NEWTON.
OK (TYLER NEVER SMOKED. I never smoked a cigar or a pipe in my life, and never expect to do so. It is a matter to be left to evsry minister's conscience and common sense. I fear that some valuable lives h»ve ended in smoke, and there are times when a cigar iu a minister's mouth does not help the gospel that comes out of it -and is rot 11 wholesome "ensample to the Hock." THEODORE L. CCYLEK.
BROOKLYN.
SMOKING MINISTERS HAD EXAMPLES. More than one important religious denomination, uotably tho Methodist, now regularly makes inquiry of candidates for the ministry as to their habits concerning the use of tobacco. A large number of conferences refuse to accept habitual smokers as preachers. I believe there should be a reform iu this matter of smoking among young men, but nothing prevents it so much os the practice of a few distinguished preachers, whose habits in others respects are exemplary, but who, in regard to smoking, set a bod example to the young.
BOSTON. JOSEPH COOK.
DOESN'T SMOKE, BUT WISHES IIE DID. I am not a smoker, but 1 wish I were. There is some constitutional obstacle* The habit is not in my family. I smoked a little in college, but not from the pleasure of it. Later in life I gave it entirely up. The clerical life is one of mucti nervous excitement which needs quieting, and at the
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restraiu't^which insures moderation. A nigar is a solace and a companion. The student craves both. If these circumstances were known and considered, the smoking clergyman's example would ba harmless but as it is, in the present pu-sion for exhilaration and injurious narcotics by people who do not require them, I am inclined to think the habit should ba dispensed with by those who aim at elevating moral sentiment.
BOSTON. O. B. FROTHINUIIAM.
WOULD SMOKE IF HE WANTED TO. One can not say whether clergymen as a class should or should not use tobacco. It is nobody's business, except in his own individual case. I do not use tobacco mvself, but if I wanted to I should do so.
NEW YORK. MORGAN DIX.
NO MIST A KINti HIS VIEWS.
I can give no opinion based on experience of the effects of emokirg, as the priictice has always seemed to me filthy and useless, ond therefore indulgence in it simply sensual. I think the practice inexcusable, except in the case of those who hsve begun it in an idiotic or vicious 3 outb, aud whose system is so saturated with the poison that they fear they will, through the shock the change would give the brain, revert into idiocy should they cease taking in the UBUU! supply of nicotine.
NEW YOKK. WILLIAM HAYES WARD.
IIK RECOLLECTS uis FIRST SMOKE. I began to smoke at eight years of age and left IT the same day. .The cane cut from the hedge made me sick, and all my experience since hBS made mo more sick of what I regBrd a dirty, costly, tyrannical and unhealthy habit. Excuse mav be made for some elderly or bfllicted smokerp, but the practice should be specially avoided by ministers. There are in every church some who will be pained by such an example, some who may be injured by following it. Smokers are liable to become slaves to the habit, so that its indulgence gets to be a necessity of life. They are uncomfortable without it they become reckless of the comfort of others they must smoke in the street, in the car, in the house, in the bed. It often leads to drinking, wastes time, and costs money which is needed for better objects.
LONDON. NEWMAN HALL.
DR. STORKS IS A SMOKER.
Either "Yes" or "No" may be easily written, but any satisfactory answer to the question of whether clergymen should smoke, would require more time than I have at command. The general christian rule is plainly one of self-re-straint, and the avoidance of offence. Each man who feels himself responsible to the Master must judge for himself, I think, in applying the rule to the particulars of conduct.
For myself, I find material help from a cigar when engrossed in study. BROOKLYN. RICHARD S. STORKS.
I have never used tobacco in any form, and therefore write without that knowledge which is uerived from personal enjovraent of the cigar.
From such study as I have been able to give to the matter, I am not able to discover any physical or moral argument for smoking. The arguments appear to be all on the other side. While the evils of alcohol are vastly greater than the evils of tobacco, on the other hand, it appears to me easier to construct an argument in favor of the moderate use of alcohol than in favor of the moderate use of tobacco.
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tobacco habit are notorious. The moral evilB appear to me also serious. Whatever may be the imagined benefit of smoking to overworked men and women? if it is a sedative, who need it more than the wives and mothers? it is by substantially universal consent an ID jury to the young. And yet not only the young men in our stores and colleges, but the boys in their teens are inveterate smokers.
The minister should teach by his life he should set an example which he is willing his congregation should follow he should walk in the paths in which he desires that the boys and young men who look up to him should walk. As I personally do not wish to see the boys in my Sunday schools nor tie young men in my church and congregation smoking, I do not propose to set them the example of the smoker. And I cannot but think that, on the one hand, if all ministers were of this opinion, and set a universal example egainut the cigar, it would count for something and on the other hand, that there is a certain incongruity in a smoking clergyman preaching a sermon on crucifying the lusts of the flesh, or denying ourselves for the sake of our neighbors.
And yet some of the noblest, most devoted, most consecrated ministers in the Church of Christ, men before whom I bow in reverencr, are habitual smokers.
BROOKLYN. LYMAN ABBOTT.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH SPEAKS. It is neither better nor worse in the sight of God for clergymen to smoke tobacco than it is for other men to do this. I have no experience on this subject, having never tasted tobacco iu any form. In early life I read many essays on the subject, from the ablest pens, all showing that its effects upon the animal and mental nature were injurious, and so I eschewed it forever. There is something so unclean, morbid and adverse to the daily life of the Lord Jesus in the proctice of smoking, chewing or snuffing tobacco, that the very thought of associating the Son of God therewith would be scouted by the slaves of these practices as savoring of blasphemy. And yet, many of His ambassadors quite excuse themselves in preaching His gospel from mouths and throats saturated with this filthy product. As a rule, ministers will palliate their conduct iu the use of tobacco by some semi-solemn or even comic joke, which may suffice to hoodwink themselves to the evils of the offensive practice, but such trash never hoodwinks either the holy God or.sensible men. This is a mere mockery of their own shame. Adam Clark severely reproved two of his brethren for their smoking. "Yes, doctor," they said, "we are burning our idols." "Brethren," replied the indignant commentator, "if you want to please the devil better than by burning your idols,offer him, I pray you, a roast pig stuffed with your tobacco, it will be the most delicious sacrifice that you can dovote to him." Tliere are plenty of christian men, and I feBr clergymen, too, who spend more money every year in ruining their health by tobacco than they devote to the spread of the gospel by Bible distribution and by missionary work. Tobacco and rum are twin daughters of Satan, and it is of but little use to pray, "Thy kingdom come" while we tamper with either of these deadly poisons. THOMAS ARMITAGE.
NEW YORK.
DR. I3UKCHARI) A FIFTY YEAR SMOKER. There is no specisl law to regulate the doings of clergymen. In habits or acts not positively sinful they must be governed by the law of expediency. Smoking is such an act. If the habit is found to injure the health of one who thus indulges, obscures his intellect, or leads others to excess, then he should abstain. If, however, he finds that smoking tranquillizes the nerves, lessens the jar and friction of life, aids digestion then he may quietly indulge. Those reformers go to an extreme who put smoking on a parallel line with the use of intoxicants. They lead to very different results. Even the excessive use of the one does not end in poverty, violence, misery and utter abandonment of all that is manly, virtuous and good. Over the evils of the latter an angel might well weep. For the relief of an early intjrmity I have indulged in the use o? one cigar a day for more than fifty years, and have experienced no evil effects.
NEW YORK. S. D. BURCHARD.
FROM VENERABLE DR. M'COSH. Smoking will be put down when young ladies declare that they will not look with favor on a young man who smokes, and when congregations declare that they will not take a minister who smokes.
PRINCETON, N. J. JAMES MOCOSH.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR CLERGYMEN. IEee not why clergymen should not smoke if men of any sort or other professions do. I have never been a smoker myself, but it seema to me to be the some question mentally and physically for all persons alike, and the example of a smoking clergyman, if hurtful, is equally so by men of other sets.
BOSTON. C. A. BARTOL.
FROM THE CANON OF WESTMINSTER. I have never been a smoker, never having the smallest need to adopt the practice, or the smallest attractions toward it. Whether smoking is injurious to the health of full grown men,' or not, I am unable to say, but many who begin by smoking in ..moderation go on to smoke in excess, they injure their health very seriously. seems to me that when man has so many natural wants it is not desirable to add to them another want, which can only be regarded as artificial.
LONDON. FREDERIC W. FARKAR.
FROM AN EDITOR CLERGYMAN. If any one should smoke, why deny the privilege and pleasure to a man of the cloth? If no one ought to smoke, then, I imagine, the clergy man should be included.
I have noticed that nearly everybody who doesn't smoke thinks it sinfal, a vile habit, and a waste of silver dollars, while the man who d»es smoke, believes that it warms his heart, clears his head, and helps to make life worth living.
For myself, I am my own double, a clergyman and a journalist. As a journalist, I take unspeakable comfort in a good cigar. There is poetry in its lifting
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I should say, then, that a clergyman may smoke if he wishes to. If he does not wish to, he may credit himself with resisting one of the softest blandishments of this cold world, and denying hiB tired nerves one of the most precious narcotics that ever threw its magic spell over ill-temper and substitute good nature for chronio irrascibility.
You may rob others of their cigars if you have the requisite strength—and hardness of heart—but you can't get mine, unless vou weigh a good cteal more than I do. Yours, with a puff,
NEW YORK. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH.
BISHOP COXF. DOESN'T LIKE IT. I know so many men far better than myself who enjoy the rank weed, and it seems in bad taste for me to rebuke a habit to which I am not tempted personally. Butitisan expensive habit and they who make appeals for hundreds of good and needy objects might save for charity what does no good to anybody.
It is a bad example of waste to the young. I asked a youth to save for buying books every dollar he usually expended for cigars, and in a very short time he showed me an admirable little library saved from smoke.
It is an offensive habit to innumerable persons whom we are commanded to love a3 ourselves. A lady who ontertained a worthy clergyman once objected to receiving him again. Said she: "It took a week's airing and some scrubbing to get, the nauseous smell out of my guest-chamber and out of clothes that hung in one of its closets."
It is a social habit that-leads to the society of men who waste time in puffing smoke and telling anecdotes not always the moat likely to "minister graoe to the hearers."
A lady once eaid "her pastor came to pray with her as she lay sick and expecting to die, but the smell of .tobacco which he brought into the room with him nauseated her and spoiled all his heavenly exhortations."
A young man once said to me that "he had obeyed his mother and given up the habit, when he saw a reverend D. D. smoking and joking in a public place, but this so disgusted him that he obeyed his mother better than ever.
A. CLEVELAND COXE.
BUFFALO, N. Y.
THOMAS BEECHER SAYS "DON'T." Tobacco? Yes, it has done me dam age it has brought me benefit. Slight excess, I think, of damage. It consulted, I should* reply, "Don't." If asked, "Why not?" should answer, "Why?" To use anything without a good reason is at best an experiment, and experiments are risky. Abstain until nature calls for help. Then take advice «r experiment cautiously— very cautiously. A good servant may prove a most cruel master. Tobacco has its use, no doubt. He is a rare man who learns to use it usefully.
FROM THE ELDER BEECHER. My deepest feeling is excited by the great extent to which ministers of the gospel are involved in the sin of using tobacco.
It not only injures them physically, but morally. Against unanswerable evidence of its widespread evils, physical, intellectual and moral, they subject themselves to a habit of ruinous self indulgence, and do all that example can do to induce others to do the same. Then of what avail is it for them to preach to men to deny ungodliness and every worldly lust?-
While ministers of the gospel oppose one with vivid eloquence, they advocate the other by example, and area rampart io defend it against all assaults.
EDWARD BEECHER.
BISHOP POTTER'S SUGGESTION. I do not think that clergymen are under any obligation to smoke. Whether they ought not to smoke is a question concerning which I would suggest that you obtain tho views of the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon.
NEW YORK. HENRY C. PUTTER.
CHAPLAIN WILLIAM HENRY MILBURN. As to the habit of smoking tobacco, every minister should be fully persuaded in his own mind careful to observe its effects upon his health and likewise bis disposition and capacity for work. Without doubt it is injurious to many per6onr, but not to all nor even a majority. If all the ministers of the United States were to abandon the habit, I do not believe that the number of smokers would be lessened except by their count the matter of example, therefore, goes for little. W. H. MILBURN".
WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE VOICE OF A METHODIST. Clergymen certainly should not smoke. No clergyman should do anything he does not expect and wish the young men in his congregation and Sabbath-school to do. How can a man reprove boys for smoking if he does it himself? No, save us from clergymen who smoke! Iam glad the Methodist Church has decided not to admit young men to her ministry who are addicted to the practios. (Chaplain) C. C. MGCABE.
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NOT HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER. I have no wisdom to impart on the question whether clergymen should smoke. I do not smoke myself, nor do 1 judge those who do.
WASHINGTON GLADDEN.
COLUMBUS, O.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF '"AMERICA." I am glad to bear my testimony against the evil practice to the use of tobacco by ministers of the gospel. They are often called to visit in the chambers of th® sick, whose sensitive frames are pained and disgusted by the ill-Bavored odors carried in the breath or in the clothing of visitors. Intimate conversations of sympathy with the bfflicted, or of advice to the troubled and to inquirers—all alike demanding proximity, will often be
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A VOICE FROM AS DOVER.
Some concessions must in fairness be made to the smokirg habit. It is not a sin in any man whose own conscience does not so instruct him. It should not be made a test of character, even in our private judgments of men. As a man thinketh so is he. It is not a proper subject of ecclesiastical prohibition. The distinction is not a wise one which forbids it to clergymen more positively than to laymen. That is not a healthy type of religious faith which lays the clergy under prohibitions which are not thought necessary in regulating the conduct of other men.
Yet there are few, if any, usages morally innocent in themselves of which 60 many things can be said to their discredit as may be eaid of th8 use of tobacco as an indulgence.
The habit 16 against nature. Tobacco is neither food nor drink. So far as I know, it is not medicine except to a sick sheep. No natural appetite of the human body craves it. Of tho whole animal creation, but one species naturally takes to it—and that is a worm. Intellectual culture is not fostered by it. Nor does it quicken or gratify spiritual aspirations.
General Stonewall Jackson once said to his daughter that since he had reached adult years he had never taken a mouthful of food at any hour of day or night without asking the blessing of God upon it. The general was a native of a tobacco growing state, and probabiy a smoker. But it may be reasonably questioned whether he ever sought the divine blessing upon his daily cigar. What smoker ever did? Yet why not? Can smoking clergymen" answer the question?
An immense and increasing number of Christian believers condemn the habit as being unsympathetic with the imitation of Christ. The drift of the noblest and purest civilization is palpably adverse to a usage which so distinctly subordinates mind to matte1*, soul and body. AUSTIN PHELPS.
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
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It is the duty of a clergyman by precept and example to teach other men their duties. Therefore, no clergyman ought to smoke, because smoking is a vice. It is a vice oecause it is a master of labor, time, attention and hoalth. I believe that intoxicating liquor and tobacco are the two chief enemies of the human race. It seems, therefore, as olear as the sun in heaven that no clergyman can be held guiltlees who does not s^t a personal example in opposition to them both. WILLIAM ALGER.
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TREATMENT
DR. E. C. WEST'S NKRVK AND BKAIN TREATMENT, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convulsions, Kits, Nervous Neuralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostration, caused by the use of, alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness. Mental Depres-I slon, Softening of the Brain, resulting In Insanity and leading to misery, decay and death Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power In either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermatorrhoea, caused by over-exertion of the brain, self-abuse or over-Indulgence. Each box contains one month's treatment, tl a box, or six boxes for $3, sent by mall prepaid on receipt ot price.
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by us for six boxes, accompanied with $5. we will Bend
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the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the money If the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees Issutkl only by J. 4 C. Baur, Druggists,' sole agents, southeast corner Seventh street anu Wabash avenue, Terre Haute, Ind.
NEW MOVE! NEW MEDICINE! CASTO'S COUGH SYKUP. At your gncers'. Price 20c and 60c. "ample frw.
Positively guaranteed or money refunded.
For Catarrh, Hay Fever. Headache and Cold I the Head this remedy has no equal By dllutln with water and uslne at a wash It will quick cure the worst case of catarrh. Forsyte T'J (I grocers. Made only by DR. J. C. CASTO. 210 Mali
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