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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 39.

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TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Two New England churches refused to call two students of Andover Theological Seminary because they use tobacco. Served them right.
Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, of Boston, estimates the rum business in the United States at $1,000,000,000 a year, by far the largest industry in the country.
Shut your grog-shops, open your schools, and God knows what flashing jewels you may dig out of the neglected ores at the very bottom of the unwrought mine of the poorest classes.—Joseph Cook.
An eminent Boston preacher once said that it was a mockery to pray at night for sweet and refreshing sleep without seeing to it that the bed-room is well ventilated. God takes care of those who take care of themselves.
A well meaning lad did not know what to do with his spare hours. He often spent them on the saloon steps, hearing the men talk and watching them order their beer and drink it. And so he looked till he wished to taste. Of course, when a drink was offered him he was not ready to say no. He made an early drunkard.
"Within half a century," says Dr. Dio Lewis, "no young man addicted to the use of tobacco has graduated at the head of his class in Harvard College, though five out of six of the students have used it. The chances, you see, were five in six that a smoker would graduate at the head of his class, if tobacco does no harm. But during half a century not one victim of tobacco was able to come out ahead."—Letter on Hygiene of the Brain, p. 206.
A gentleman who is very much opposed to the habit of cigarette smoking, that is almost universal with our boys, and who wishes to use his influence as far as possible in checking it says: "I advertised in two papers last week for an office boy, and of 30 applicants, averaging about 14 years of age, there were only two who would make the statement that they were not in the habit of smoking." He also thinks that from the general appearance of the two non-smokers they were telling the truth.