Ministers Who Return to Tobacco by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 22.

Ministers Who Return to Tobacco

By Editor

The "two Sams," Jones and Small, did one good thing in Chicago, for which we gave them credit. They quit using tobacco, and said they would never again let that practice stand in the way of any man. "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb," etc. See 2 Peter 2:22. We learn that they have both gone back to the filthy habit. We wait to hear what effect this will have on their work. If their congregations do not say to them; "Physician, heal thyself," we take it that they like to be amused more than anything else. For our part, we have no use for a smoking or chewing minister. We cannot believe that a man who is "pure in heart" can be filthy in body.