A Young Girl Cures a Minister of Tobacco

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1874

A Young Girl Cures a Minister of Tobacco

As the story goes—and if it isn’t true, it is good enough to be true—the late Rev. Dr. Vinton was instantly cured of chewing tobacco by a young miss of twelve, to whom he was giving good advice about Lent. She said, “Pshaw! don’t preach self-denial to me when you have your mouth full of nasty tobacco!” The reverend gentleman turned aside, and removed the odious quid from his mouth, which was never defiled with it again.