The mysteries of tobacco / by the Rev. Benjamin I. Lane ; with an introductory letter addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams by the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox.

  • Lane, Benjamin I. (Benjamin Ingersol), 1797-1875.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The mysteries of tobacco / by the Rev. Benjamin I. Lane ; with an introductory letter addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams by the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    tably often do they chew, snuff, and spit*, to the grand annoyance of all the cleanly, and all the devout, who have to witness the shameful profana- tion ! These abominations, we are credibly assu- red, are observed—not frequently, yet sometimes— even at the communion table !! Here indeed it becomes horrible, and worthy of the disciplinary animadversion of ecclesiastical authority ! I must abhor it and pronounce it plainly impious. An in- dulgence so filthy, so indolent, so reckless and irrev- erent, in the very house and the holy presence of God! may it never be repeated, if it ever was perpetrated ! Let a man think—have a little fore- cast—look ahead—and remember how sinful it is towards Him, who says, Ye shall keep my Sab- baths AND REVERENCE MY SANCTUARY ] I AM Jehovah. Let all things be done de- cently, and in order. In some churches the Trustees have taken the nuisance in hand, and with the sword of Caesar, * Some chewers seem to need a spittoon in their pew not only, but two or three of them, large ones, with a pew to themselves twenty feet from any decent person.
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