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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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TOBACCO

By John Pierpont

WHEN Paul to Athens bore salvation's word, We're told his spirit was within him stirred, Seeing that city wholly given o'er To idol worship. Altars, by the score, Were smoking round him, on the Attic plain, Where goats and heifers were as victims slain; But to no demon did those victims bleed, So foul, as is this foully-worshipped weed. To this the votary sacrifices wealth, His mind's composure, and his body's health, His ruddy cheek, a conscience free from pain, A steady nerve, the vigor of his brain, The consciousness that he is not a slave, And years that might have rolled between him and his grave. —John Pierpont.