SINCERITY | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1887

SINCERITY.

SINCERITY becomes a man like a garment of righteousness, but sometimes it cuts in a way least expected. A good instance in point was, we think, afforded in Joseph Cook's prayer at the close of Sam Jones's address to ministers in Tremont Temple, Monday noon, Jan. 24. Mr. Jones had been denouncing the drinking habit in scathing terms, and urging and exalting purity of life and godlikeness of character. But not a word was said about tobacco—a habit which Messrs. Jones and Small both indulged in until last winter, when they publicly renounced it at Chicago; but the Independent says that they have since broken their pledge. Mr. Cook, being called on at the close of the address, prayed in equally vigorous language that men might keep themselves free from the evil of tobacco as well as drink, and that all narcotics as well as intemperance might be banished from the land. He who preaches sincerity and purity ought to practice what he preaches.—Congregationalist.