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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 5.

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Ministers and Tobacco

A CLERGYMAN, writing to the N. Y. Independent, complained that, as a result of modern Sunday-school teaching, children "lose all confidence in the piety of a man, unselfish, benevolent, and devout though he be, if in the privacy of his own house, he rests himself with the aid of a cigar." To this the S. S. Times responds: "A minister must be pretty tough who would hold on to the use of tobacco, when its indulgence clearly destroyed all confidence in his piety among the children of his pastoral charge."
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