WEBSTER's definition of this word is, "Perfectly pure, and complete in moral character, as God." No one will dispute the correctness of this definition. Now read 1 Cor. xvi, 20. "Greet ye one another with a holy kiss." Here comes two Brn. perhaps, one a chewer, and the other a smoker of tobacco, both otherwise fair, it may be. They keep the Sabbath, but alas, the greeting. Ugh! I ask, can such comply with Paul's exhortation? What have we come to! an age of tobacco! tobacco! TOBACCO! in the mouth, in the nose, on the lips, on the beard, its taint in the breath, and the blood, in the air, borne on the winds; the store, the shop, the kitchen, the parlor, redolent with its fumes, and to cap the climax, the breath of the saints. Can it be? No, surely. Again I ask, must it be? can it be?
J. CLARKE.
Portage, Wood Co., Ohio