“_I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service._”
“_If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy, which temple ye are._”--_Paul._
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Yet professed Christians, and even ministers of the gospel, will
saturate themselves with the filthy weed tobacco in some of its
forms, filling their blood with the nicotin poison until a leech
placed upon the arm will fall dead inside of sixty seconds.
No one can so debase and deaden his physical system without impairing
his mental powers. When the mental powers are thus degraded, and the
faculties so impaired, just to that extent is the power to give God
“reasonable service” destroyed.
Of course it is to professed Christian tobacco users that this
chapter is presented. And to them we will say that their evil example
is the argument behind which boy and men tobacco users hide, and
by which they defend their use of the weed. Tens of thousands of
boys are going to ruin physically, mentally, and morally because of
the evil example of professed Christians, prominent educators, and
physicians.
_A Clean Ministry_
“_Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord._”--_Isaiah._