"Your church has always seemed to me like one that desired to avoid an excess of piety in its ministers." "And don't you think we have succeeded pretty well in gratifying our desires? Our present minister seems to be ready to preach to us about as we wish him to do it, and does not trouble us with disagreeable topics. I have never heard a word from him on temperance, and he smokes. I hope my boys won't see him with his cigar, for somehow they have learned to associate smoking with drinking and swearing. My youngest boy is particularly earnest in his prayers for help against these vices. He sometimes says, 'O Lord, do keep us, and don't let us smoke and drink and swear.'" Are these boys far astray in their induction? How many men fond of strong tobacco do not find themselves fond, also, of strong drink, strong language and strong stories? What is in the atmosphere of smoking rooms and smoking cars? And what are one's thoughts when he sees these places frequented by the "Ensamples to the flock"?