Chapter 2

7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | CHAPTER 2. | | | | TOBACCO FROM A MORAL STAND-POINT. | | | | | | Go to our jails and penitentiaries and you will find their inmates, | | almost to a man, tobacco-eaters and alcohol drinkers. As the chameleon | | takes its color from the object it is attached to, so does the mind of | | man, from the body it is attached to. No wonder, then, that a brain | | poisoned, will suggest poisoned thoughts, criminal thoughts and acts. | | O that preachers might know this, or, knowing it, might act on it in | | their efforts to regenerate man's moral nature. Let them commence at | | the root of evil to remove it. Evil, like a Cancer, while the root | | remains the canker grows worse. Mind and body is united in every | | effort, if the main spring is weakened so is the stroke. "A bitter | | fountain can not send forth a pleasant stream." | | | | When we undertake to reform a man the first thing is to see that the | | brain is healthy; not poisoned and diseased. For an unhealthy organ | | can not perform healthy functions. You might as well try to improve | | the sense of smell with the nose stuffed full of snuff, as to try to | | improve the moral sense while it is poisoned with the essence of | | snuff. Try to change a man's heart that is palpitating with poison and | | lusting for more! If you wish to be a successful soul doctor, you must | | commence at the seat of all moral diseases; a poisoned and disordered | | mind. Take the poison out of him first, and keep it out for at least | | thirty days, until the brain can begin to have its natural healthy | | action, and then he will arise and walk in dry places seeking rest. | | | | We affirm, and shall prove in the course of our lecture, that tobacco | | obtudes and destroys the moral as well as every other sense of the | | human intellect. Proof. When you see a habitual tobacco user in the | | company of his friends you will see him either squirting his poison | | fluid over his friend's hearth, house, floor, and stove, and breathing | | his loathsome poisonous breath into the face of his friend, or pouring | | his poison smoke into the eyes, nose, and lungs of all present. When | | all present are coughing strangling and almost out of breath; they say | | please don't smoke any more in the house. Then comes the oft' repeated | | "Excuse me I did not think." Can a moral man so far intrude upon the | | health, happiness and peace, even of a race of cannibals? "I did not | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

8 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | think," is an acknowledgment that his thinking faculties are not in | | order. That is what we know. | | | | Now, it is no use to tell me that a man who can't think, what he is | | doing in small moral and social points of good breeding, with which he | | is every day familiar. How much less qualified is he for deep moral | | and intellectual reasoning which he is entirely unacquainted with? | | | | Furthermore. If he does think, his refined and gentle humane feelings | | are so benumbed as to cause him not to care, it shows his spiritual | | nature is too much deadened to teach the spirit of a pure and | | undefiled religion which teach kindness love and attention to all men. | | | | A poisoned body, especially when chronic, deadens the nerves and clogs | | the intellect, darkens the mind, smokes and blackens the soul to such | | an extent he can neither teach or understand as a man ought to do by | | nature. | | | | What think you of a preacher of Christ with a cud in his mouth | | squirting poison at the souls he is trying to save? Is the thing | | possible? Talk of distilling the essence of Christianity through a | | poison worm of tobacco! O, thou tobacco-eating hypocrite! Can a body | | that is defiled with poison and polluted with the sin of self-abuse be | | a fit dwelling place for the Holy Ghost? How can a man who stinks like | | a rank tobacco-pipe, call himself a fit vessel to stand before the | | Lord to represent God and the Souls of men, to proclaim the word of | | God while his tongue is reeking in deadly poison and his brain | | befuddled with its influence? O, thou worse than Baalam! Would that | | every ass might rebuke thee. | | | | It is a common thing for temperance lecturers to denounce alcohol on | | the strength of tobacco, that is, lecture with a cud in their mouths. | | Now this is mean. There should be honor among thieves. Don't laugh at | | and taunt your brother, wallowing there in the mud, while your own | | mouth is full of a thousand times filthier filth. Don't grow poetical | | on the "drunkard's aspen hand," when your own poisoned nerves will | | quiver worse than his if you should abstain from your quid three | | hours. You have yet to learn that tobacco produces delirium tremens, | | which you so much love to picture to the drunkard, with all the | | glowing colors of pandemonium. | | | | Dr. Mussey says he was acquainted with a gentleman in Vermont who | | conscientiously abstained from all intoxicating drinks and yet died of | | delirium tremens. Dr. Lauren and many other medical writers speak of | | similar cases within their knowledge. Many of our best physicians | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

9 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | concur the opinion in that many of the cases of delirium tremens | | imputed to alcohol are mostly due to the use of tobacco. | | | | You ought never listen to a self styled temperance-man who lectures a | | drinker, with his mouth full of tobacco juice. The drinker if he uses | | no tobacco is the most temperate man of the two. It is a gross insult | | to an audience to eject on them alcoholic vituperation and nicotianic | | expectoration at the same time. That audience should say; first go | | reform thy-self thou intemperate SLAVE of poison! | | | | We have no room for the introduction of proof of our assertions on the | | evils of tobacco. But if you wish to have an abundance of evidence | | that tobacco produces the diseases which we herein mention you will | | just please to consult Dr. Lizars, he will furnish you with cases and | | proof. Read Dr. Mussey's 'Essay on Tobacco,' published by the American | | Tract Society. And here let me ask all who have the good of humanity | | at heart, to place this lecture in the hands of every one of your | | tobacconized neighbors. The circulation of anti-tobacco and | | anti-alcohol tracts will do more good than all other tracts besides. | | For those are the root and foundation of almost every disorder of mind | | and body, even upon those who never used it: for it is written: "I | | will visit the sins and iniquities of the fathers upon the children | | and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth | | generation," of them that violate the laws of nature and their own | | being. | | | | A wise man hath said look not on the wine when it is red. But a wiser | | than he hath decreed that they only who seek after wisdom shall find | | it, that fools shall be afflicted because of their transgressions, and | | that whosoever refuseth instruction shall destroy his own soul. | | | | He that is capable of reflection must perceive that whatever disorders | | the nerves disorders the brain and the mind, also the morals, then it | | corrupts society, possibly for generations to come. You must also | | perceive that Life and Death, Health and Disease, are alike | | transmitted with the germ of the unborn being. That a diseased and | | poisoned body can not transmit a healthy germ. You see that the seed | | of an apple that grew on a hollow tree will never produce a sound | | tree. Then why expect an affected and poisoned body and mind, to | | produce those that are active and strong? | | | | It is not on the external condition in which you find your self | | placed, but on the part which you are to act, that your welfare or | | unhappiness, your honor or dishonor, your health or diseases depends. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

10 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | When beginning to act that part, what can be of greater interest to | | you, than to throw off the poison chains of mental slavery, keeping | | both mind and body free from such abject servitude. Freedom of mind | | and body insures health, long life and happiness. When the whole of | | the machinery, mental and physical, is clean, its strength and | | elasticity is so much better, its retentiveness is much more vivid and | | comprehensive that one is mostly spared the pain of irretrievable | | errors. | | | | If instead of exerting reflection in so critical a moment you deliver | | yourselves up to levity, sloth and slavery of habit and poison, what | | can you expect to follow? Will wisdom tread the path of folly? Can you | | thus abuse both the mind and body, and call yourselves unspotted from | | the world, or call yourselves the children of a pure God? O thou | | spiritual blind guide! Where are you leading the people to by precept | | and example? You have led and allowed the nations to walk into the | | ditch. | | | | Habit is harder to serve than a king, and its taxes are greater, for | | they not only come yearly, but daily and hourly, on body, mind and | | pocket. You are bound in her chains and must answer her calls. | | | | O man of sorrow, whose life is interwoven with the ills of the earth! | | Could I but speak to you in the language of the truth or had I but | | room to draw the picture as it is, I think your reason would revolt at | | its use, and break its chains, bidding defiance to the deadly grasp of | | its seditious habits. | | | | ----When you become satisfied that tobacco is injurious to you. If you | | have not courage to divorce the habit at once and had rather steal | | away from its grasp unconsciously and without the desire for tobacco, | | or the use of medicine, just send 50 cts. in money or stamps to the | | office of the GOSPEL MONITOR. HANNIBAL, MO. And we will send you the | | RULINGS OF NATURE. A printed formula showing how nature in that case | | restores her own equilibrium, and throws off the former poison and | | prevents the craving of a fresh supply. In clubs of 20 or more, we | | will send them for 25 cts. each. The rule is short and easily | | understood. | | | | | | ---*-------*===(=(=O=)=)===*-------*--- | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

11 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | The mind of man is the motive power of the body. There is great | | sympathy existing between the mind and body, whatever affects the body | | must of necessity affect the mind; versus. Whatever affects the mind | | is sure to affect the body. The body is the house that the man lives | | in, if the house is damaged in any way the man proper which is the | | mind; through sympathy is sure to suffer from such injuries. | | | | The power of the mind over the body both in disease and in health, is | | utterly beyond all the modern scientific conceptions. The mind has so | | long been clogged and hindered by narcotics and over stimulants, that | | it yet remains in its infancy. Every hindrance prevents the growth and | | development of the mind. The body may soon attain to its greatest | | development, but the mind never reaches its perfection in this sphere. | | | | Age and experience fortifies and strengthens the mind, they give it | | greatness and power; every influence possible should be brought to | | bear upon the intellect to improve the mind and advance it.--The ages | | past have been more to hinder and to cramp the intellect, to hinder | | reason and progress than to favor it. But it must be understood now | | that mind is capable of getting and bringing information from the | | ulter-etherial worlds. Or of mind conversing with mind, even in | | separate continents.--Without Telephone, Telegraph, or _Witch-craft_. | | (Spiritualism.) | | | | For training up a strong, healthy, powerful intellect read the RULINGS | | OF NATURE. Only to be had at the office of the GOSPEL MONITOR. | | Hannibal, Mo. Price 50 cts. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

12 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | MAN, KNOW THY-SELF. | | | | | | Know this and be assured quite well, | | All evil comes when man hath fell. | | Fell from purity, in grief, | | To eat the vile tobacco leaf. | | Know this my friend, a poisoned brain, | | Can not a poisoned thought refrain. | | A heart that beats with poisoned pulse; | | Will any moral mind convulse. | | Alcohol and Tobacco food, | | To feed the mind with, is not good. | | It causes one when e're he speaks, | | To imitate the weeds and snakes. | | And thus his poison he'll impart | | From mind to mind from heart to heart. | | When your mind is clean and pure, | | More hardships you can then endure; | | Then see the manly moral tone | | Of an intellect full grown. | | | | J. J. Cranmer. | | | | | | ---*-------*=======*=======*-------*--- | | | | | | AGENTS WANTED _TO SELL THE_ RULINGS OF NATURE, it is a printed formula | | teaching the power of the active healthy mind over the body in | | sickness and in health; it teaches how to train up your mind even to | | supernal powers. This is backed up by every medical writer, by every | | science, by every casual observer; and last but not the least: it is | | the ultima thule of the ever blessed Bible, the word of the Lord. | | | | It teaches how to quit the use of tobacco without the desire for using | | it, and no medicines used. NATURE RULES if allowed her own way.--Our | | design is only to benefit the human family, therefore we give | | [==>] our agents all the profits. Agents will address the _GOSPEL | | MONITOR_. Hannibal Mo. Those wishing to order the Rulings of Nature | | (which is 50 cts,) direct from the office; will send the 50 cts. for | | the Gospel Monitor one year, and receive the Rulings of Nature free. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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This pamphlet was apparently printed as cheaply as possible and suffers from a combination of poor typesetting and even poorer printing.

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It is realy [really] so fatal

its affect [effect] on the system

their babe's mouth's [mouths].

Insantiy [Insanity], which can readily

craving for Alcohoic [Alcoholic] drinks,

stimulents [stimulants], hence the craving

times imparing [impairing] its vital

if you don't believ [believe] me just examine

may may [removed duplicate word] be a SLAVE

warm and opprssive [oppressive],

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to give a stimulent [stimulant]

virulence in proprtion [proportion] to the

of the sufficating [suffocating]

and sickning [sickening] sensation:

medicine to alay [allay] that,

the unquinchable [unquenchable] flame

almost impreceptible [imperceptible] grating

is underminded [undermined]; Its vitals are

craves strong drnks [drinks],

decanter there yon [you]

or Idolitor [Idolator],

upon itst [its] own merit

criticisms and comunications [communications]

the abelest [ablest] wrtters [writers].

preacheras [preachers] might know

act on it in there [their] efforts

bitter fountan [fountain]

might as wel [well] try

to be a sucessful [successful] soul

seat of all moral dseases [diseases];

me I didnot [did not] think."

"I didnot [did not] think,"

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the opinino [opinion] in that

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must preceive [perceive] that whatever

possibly for generation [generations]

also preceive [perceive] that

why expect an effected [affected] and poisoned

When begining [beginning] to act

poison chains ofmental [of mental] slavery,

longlife [long life] and happiness.

pain of irretrieveable [irretrievable] errors.

walk into to [into (removed duplicate word)] the ditch.

and breake [break] its chains

grasp unconsiously [unconsciously] and

fresh suply [supply].

The rule is short and easy [easily] understood.

The mind of man is the motiv [motive] power

whatever effects [affects] the body

must of necessity effect [affect] the mind;

effects [affects] the mind is sure to effect [affect] the body.

over stimulents [stimulants], that it yet remains

Every hinderence [hindrance] prevents

mind, they gives [give] it greatness

should be brought to bare [bear] upon

For trainning [training] up

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therfore [therefore] we give

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