The evils of smoking, or, A few words to ministers who use the tobacco / by Silas Henn.

  • Henn, Silas, active 1873-1878.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Credit: The evils of smoking, or, A few words to ministers who use the tobacco / by Silas Henn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Second JEditiony Three half-pence. THE EVILS OF SMOKING; ♦ OK, A FEW WOEDS TO MINISTEES WHO USE TOBACCO. BY SILAS HENN. Iisr appealing to ministers of the Grospel on this subject, and declaring what we believe to be the truth, we are full}* aware that we shall come across the prejudices of some, and expose ourselves to unkind remarks. We shall have to give utterance to principles and statements which are not popular, and set ourselves in opposition to the practices of many whom we love, and whose general character we ap¬ prove and esteem. Nevertheless, we shall discharge what we believe to be our duty. We believe that smoking is a great, monster, wide-spread evil, and that great, prompt, and energetic efforts are needed for its repression. We never see any one smoke, younger old, but we feel grieved. We never see Christian professors smoke but we feel still “more deeply grieved; but when we see ministers smoke, and thus countenance an evil which is growing in society, and leading thousands of our youth in the path to ruin, we feel grieved and pained almost beyond expression. We have no apology, therefore, to offer for our attacking a custom which is every where common in the world, and which has the sanction of a portion of the church, and even of some who preach the glorious Gospel. We act from a sense of duty, and from a hatred of the evil aiid a love of the good. The truest interests of the world and the church require that we sound an alarm upon this subject. But our appeal will be to ministers, or chiefly to ministers, who indulge themselves with the cigar or the pipe.