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RELIGION UNDER DIFFICULTIES

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 23.

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RELIGION UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

A Chicago writer tells of a woman who would not call the minister of her church to her death-bed. “Every time during her illness that he who was her pastor entered the room to bring the consolations of the blessed gospel of love, peace, and purity, there came also with him the strong and unmistakable fumes of tobacco. To whisper into her dying ear the words of Jesus the Saviour on the breath of tobacco was more than the dying saint could compliantly bear. The words might reach the ear, but so would the breath the nostrils.”