A lecture : delivered at Didsbury, under the presidency of the late Dr. Hannah / by Thomas Reynolds, representative of the British Anti-Tobacco Society ... ; with comments on the lecture by Canon James Bardsley, of Manchester.

  • Reynolds, Thomas
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[Between 1860 and 1869?]
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Credit: A lecture : delivered at Didsbury, under the presidency of the late Dr. Hannah / by Thomas Reynolds, representative of the British Anti-Tobacco Society ... ; with comments on the lecture by Canon James Bardsley, of Manchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With the following observations I draw my remarks to a close:— Smoking is an unsuspected enemy which presents itself in the aspect of a friend, and like another syren hides its disgusting and insidious counterpart—vea, it promises harmless gratification. The diseases which it generates come on the unsuspecting with the silent approaches of a snake, and stealthily throws around him coil after coil until he is held by it as with a spell, and in the bitter experience of multitudes, at length the hag dyspepsia sets up her gloomy throne in the Smoker’s stomach, and dispenses her withering influence throughout his bodily frame ! Brethren, to be forewarned is to be forearmed I May God answer the prayer of our venerable friend, and make you the honoured instru¬ ments of bringing many amongst whom you may hereafter labour, into the path of peace. Amen. ADDENDA. “In no instance,” says Dr. Pidduck, of Montague Place, London, u is the sin of the father more strikingly visited upon his children than the sin of tobacco smoking. The enervation, the hypochondriasis, the hysteria, the insanity, the dwarfish deformities, the consumption, the suffering lives, and early deaths of inveterate smokers, bear ample testimony to the feebleness and unsoundness of the constitution through their addiction to this habit.” NOTE OF CANON JAMES BARDSLEY, OF MANCHESTER, ON THE DIDSBURY LECTURE. The substance of this Lecture I heard Mr. Reynolds deliver in St. Ann’s School, and not only approve of it, but I feel deeply that it is a subject that deserves the serious and earnest attention of every Christian and of every Citizen. I am strongly persuaded that the prevalent habit of using tobacco is spreading incalculable demoralization amongst all classes, and especially preventing the vigorous and healthy culture both of body and mind in the rising generation. We cannot carry on a too vigorous crusade against the habitual use of alcoholic drinks, but we must be careful that vre do not overlook the other bad habit of smoking, which largely operates with drinking, to fill our workhouses, our asylums and gaols. The untiring and unselfish labours of Mr. Reynolds deserve the sympathy and support of Ministers and Members of the Christian Church, and. of all others who desire the advancement of the rising race in the physical, social, and spiritual scale of being. JAMES BARDSLEY, Rector of St. Ann’s, Manchester. THE “ANTI-TOBACCO JOURNAL Four copies monthly, post free, 4s. per annum, payable in advance, to he had of the Editor. E. Beare, Printer, etc., 299, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.
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