The common use of tobacco condemned by physicians, experience, reason, common sense, and the Bible; with an infallible cure for the same / by Albert Sims.
- Sims, Albert.
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The common use of tobacco condemned by physicians, experience, reason, common sense, and the Bible; with an infallible cure for the same / by Albert Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![INTERESTING LETTERS. Dear Bro.—I have been for some time combating the use of tobacco, as the tap root of intemperance, and one of the most deceiv¬ ing of sins, for O ! how hard it is for a tobacco devotee to see him¬ self as others see him, and how can he see himself as God sees him ! Away here in the south, where I am trying to preach the Gospel, the whole atmosphere is filled with the disgusting stench of tobacco fumes. French, Mexicans, and Negroes, are ready to cry out against the man who opposes the use of tobacco, as one who is either in¬ sane, puritanical, or enthusiastic. Nothing has afforded us so glad a surprise, and such efficient service, as the sudden appearance of your Anti-Tobacco Books and Tracts. Within fifty feet of where I now write, there lives a poor young man, with a broken leg, a free born man ! an abject slave ! enthralled by his despotic master, the pipe ! Thus has he lain for fifty-three days, and no visible sign of the re-union of the severed bones, unless he can be persuaded to throw away the deadly poison, which has already reached and diseased his very bone and marrow. There he lies, an object of pity, clinging constantly to his idol, while his mother, (a professed Christian), goes about the house with a pipe, almost perpetually fumigating at her mouth. O ! may the God of heaven purify this filthy nation. My prayer is, that he may crown with success every effort you may make in this great work. I shall do all in my power to help you. Your humble brother in Christ. Rev. A. F. Gallaway. Dear Sir,—Your valued favor just received. You may send me $i worth of the new Tracts. I met a Baptist minister last fall whose story is well worth repeating :—He used tobacco some twenty-five or thirty years, and although he always felt morally re¬ strained from farther indulgence, yet the flesh [?] was too weak, until the flesh began to suffer for it in the shape of a large tumor under the arm. Imagine this reverend gentleman’s surprise, and fright too, when the surgeon opened the tumor and found it nothing more or less than a tobacco tumor ! ! Its contents smelled as strong¬ ly of tobacco as any old pipe, or anything else ever could, not excepting even those of some who smoke the pipe their great grand¬ father smoked. May God assist you mightily in your war against a greater evil than alcoholic intemperance. Yours as per 2 Cor. vii, 1. L. G. Culver. What a striking illustration are the above incidents of these oft- forgotten words, ‘‘Be not deceived ; God is not mocked ; for,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30473469_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
