p. 5 | BE YE CLEAN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 14.

“BE YE CLEAN.”

A BISHOP of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in holding an annual conference recently, told the following incident of a man who is now a general officer in the church:—

When he was a young man he was addicted to the tobacco habit, and thought he could not get on without it. On one occasion he was called to see a sick sister who was very low. He no sooner entered the room than she caught the scent of his tobacco. He went to pray for her; but she could not stand his presence, and said to him:—

“Brother Blank, I shall have to ask you to retire from the room; you have been using tobacco, and it so nauseates me that I must ask you to retire.”

He went out thoroughly humiliated, but no doubt fully cured. He went to his room, took a bath, changed his clothing, and returned.

It is a great pity that every tobacco-using preacher could not have a similar experience; for since his filthy habit is often so very offensive to those who are well and strong, it must be the more so to those who are sick and delicate. “Be ye clean.” —Southwestern Christian Advocate.