The Bible instead of the Pipe.
Not long since I met with a sister in Christ somewhat advanced in life, who, when the subject of using tobacco was introduced, gave me the following incident in her own experience, which I regard as worthy of imitation. Said she, “I used to employ the pipe freely. I was advised to the habit of smoking, as a remedy for disease. Years rolled on and the practice continued, sick or well. At length, while spinning, the thought occurred to me, that if I would read my Bible instead of smoking, I should be a better Christian. I resolved to put away the pipe and lay the Bible on the shelf where I had been accustomed to keep the pipe; and when I grew weary in spinning, and had set down to rest, I would take up the Bible and read as long as I had usually been accustomed to smoke. The experiment I found to be highly beneficial in its results. I soon loved my Bible better than I did the smoking, and although years have since mingled with past eternity, no return to that filthy habit has been found necessary by me.” And now, reader, is not the above too good to be kept a secret. Let the Bible take the place of the old pipe, and the tobacco quid, and many more would be constrained to acknowledge the example of our good sister to be based upon a safe and satisfactory principle.—Morning Star.