A GOOD STEP | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1859

A GOOD STEP.

Bro. B. McCormic of Sumner, Wis., gives us his experience in gaining a victory over tobacco as follows:

"I have been firm in the truth, and the cause has seemed to lay near my heart; but still there has been a hateful idol that I have not been able, till of late to get rid of; viz., the use of tobacco. I quit chewing and tried smoking for the purpose of weaning myself from it by degrees; but I soon found I could accomplish nothing in this way. At length I determined to exercise a little manly principle, with Christian fortitude, and abandon it at once. I conclude that at the present day and age of the world professors of religion who will spend money for tobacco and persist in the injurious use of the same can hardly expect to enter into the kingdom of God. I do not feel disposed to sell my interest in the kingdom so cheap. It would be more than Esau's selling his birthright for a mess of pottage. Let us take the exhortation of the apostle, and shun every appearance of evil."