Hopeful by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1879

Hopeful.

By Editor

REV. J. C. SIMMONS contributes to the columns of the Pacific Methodist a ringing orthodox article versus the filthy and wasteful habit of smoking and chewing tobacco. He says that parents find it exceedingly difficult to check the habit in their little sons, who plead that it must be right since the preachers use the weed. The preachers, of course, must be good men! Brother Simmons says:—

When hunting homes for the preachers a lady said to me: "Send me any body but a smoker. I had Bro.——the last Conference held here, and he kept the whole family sick the whole time with his pipe, and it was weeks before we could get the smell of his smoke out of the house."

This reminds us of an incident. We were once at Conference and, with other ministers, the guest of a very pleasant family of wealth and culture, who were not church members. Once as we were leaving the parlor for the church, Bro. R lighted his cigar at the jet of gas, giving it a draft to set it going. On returning after the service, our host addressed his wife in our presence: "My dear, can it be possible that any one has been smoking in this room?" "No," said she! "Mr. R. lighted his cigar just as he was starting to church." "Well," said he, "If I had been here, I should have asked him to go out of my house!"—Cal. Chr. Advocate.