TOBACCO AND CHRISTIANITY.
THE following conversation took place between a physician and a professor of Christianity who was unconsciously more devoted to pipe worship than to the worship of God, and as a result was in ill health, and in need of medical advice: "Do you use tobacco?"—"Yes." "Are you a Christian?"—"Yes, I am a Christian." "Christ did not use tobacco."—"O no." "You say you use tobacco?"—"Yes, I use tobacco." "Ah, but 'I am dead,' 'Christ liveth in me,' and Christ in you uses no tobacco." The tobacco devotee bears evidence to the world that Christ is not within him, for, "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked." I imagine if Christ should appear to-day among men, He would drive from the temple the worshipers who dared to appear before Him and defile the place with their whisky-soaked bodies, and tobacconized breaths, saying, "Take these things hence," your worship is not accepted. What an offering to present, a defiled body! Such offensive odors can never arise as sweet incense before the Lord.—Australasian Good Health.