p. 91 | Tobacco, Again by H.

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1859

Tobacco, Again.

By H.

Bro. Smith: In Review No. 9, is a piece headed, “To cure the appetite for Tobacco.” It may be a very good cure; but I propose an item of my own experience. I have used tobacco more than twenty-five years, chewing and smoking, sometimes to excess. Knowing that it injured my health, I often proposed to myself to leave off the use of it, considering it a useless and filthy habit, and as often did so for a few days at a time; but never effectually until the “Present Truth” convinced me that it was sinful. From the hour that I decided that it was my duty to abstain from the use of tobacco, not a morsel, nor any quieting substitute has been used. Perhaps, also, no person thought more of a cup of good and strong tea or coffee than myself; but it being like tobacco, both poisonous (for all green teas are poison) and useless, the use of it is sinful; and if sinful, then it is my duty to abstain from the use of it. This I have done now for more than three months, with little or no inconvenience, but much profit to both mind and body. The book of directions for our use, says that the willing and obedient shall be blessed; that is, the honest soul that wants to know his whole duty, and desires with strong desire to do his heavenly Master’s will, and makes entire consecration the only rule of action, the continual aspiration of the heart being, “thy will be done,” [Rom. xii, 1, 2.] such will have grace given sufficient to correct every error, and obtain a perfect cure for every sinful habit.

The Third Angel’s Message calls for entire consecration. Rev. xxiv, 12. Our Pattern was pure; no poisonous weed stained his lips nor exhilarated his mind or body; but the will of his heavenly Father was more than his meat and drink; and it may be ours. H.

Lapeer, Mich.