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Tobacco and Ministerial Character

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 45.

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Tobacco and Ministerial Character

The St. Lawrence Presbytery, at its recent meeting, expressed its entire disapprobation of the use of tobacco, and directed its Committee on Education not to recommend for aid, any candidate for the ministry, unless satisfied that he is, and will be thereafter, free from the habit. The popular opinion that smoking and chewing are incompatible with the highest exhibitions of ministerial character, is growing so rapidly, that, at no distant day, the pipe and tobacco-box will hold the same relation to pastoral proprieties as the wine-glass has come to occupy.