WE ARE ABLE by S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 22, 1877

WE ARE ABLE.

By S.

Brethren who are having trouble about giving up tobacco will please take courage from the following:—

Bro. J. Stickle of Erie, Ill., is nearly seventy-five years of age. He has used tobacco about sixty-three years, and he says he has literally been drunk upon it for the

past thirty-five years. During this winter he has given it up, as he wished to die a sober man.

It is pitiful to hear his recital, and tears would rise as he told of the prayerful battle he had; but his mouth looked clean and good—a condition in which I had never seen it before during our acquaintance. If he can stop with the Lord’s help, why cannot others apply to the same aid, and with a strong will say, “I’ll die before I’ll use it again”? It is better to die without a bad habit, than to live with one.