A CORRESPONDENT who is a Methodist pastor, in a letter to the editor, says: "I have been doing arithmetical work in my parish, and as a result I do not hesitate to say that there are many professing Christians whose record will stand more for tobacco—a hundredfold—than for the conversion of the world." He then gives the following startling statistics: "I have two hundred and sixty-seven members in full communion and one hundred probationers in my charge. Sixty-seven of them use tobacco, and on making inquiry of each one, I find they have spent for that article in a single year $845. The entire membership, with the aid of outsiders, gave to pay the pastor and presiding elder, Conference claimants, missions, church extension and freedmen, $841." In that church one member confessed to spending over $100 for tobacco, while his522contribution for church extension was sixty-six cents. Another confessed to an expenditure of $91 for tobacco. His contributions stood thus: Missions, $1.00; Conference claimants, $1.00. Is it not high time for smoking Christians to consider whether tobacco or the church of God has the strongest claim upon their purses? When a man pays a hundred and fifty times as much for nasty, dirty, filthy, stinking, outrageous, abominable, licentious, disease-breeding, lust of the flesh, poisonous idol, as he does for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is a hundred and fifty times more an abominable, licentious idolator than he is a Christian. To have such an unmitigated, filthy nuisance belong to a so-called Christian church, and for men of sense to call them "Christians," is to stultify themselves to all sense of decency, common sense, and Scripture. The man who will not obey a plain command of God is no more a Christian than the devil or any other child of disobedience is a Christian, and the word of God is, "Cleanse yourselves from all filthiness of the flesh," and the man who will not do it is no Christian. "Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he [Christ] is pure."—The Way, the Truth, and the Life.