Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

money, and needless self-indulgence? Have you not seen that the use of
tobacco leads to drunkenness? Do you not know that habitual smokers
have the drinking vessel often at hand, and frequently apply to it? Nor is
it any wonder; for the great quantity of necessary moisture which is
drawn off from the mouth, &c., by these means, must be supplied by
some other way. You tremble at the thought. Well you may; for you are
in great danger. May God look upon and save you before it be too late!"
Some of the most disagreeable things relative to the practice against
which I have been writing, are still behind the curtain; and designedly
detained there; and it is THERE ALONE where I wish every persevering
smoker to seek for a certain vessel, named the spitting dish, which, to the
abuse of all good breeding, and the insult of all delicate feeling, is
frequently introduced into public company. May they and their
implements, while engaged in this abominable work, be ever kept OUT OF
SIGHT!
WESLEY.
ON the return of Mr. Wesley and his brother Charles from America,
being both fervent in spirit, they powerfully proclaimed repentance
toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; and strongly insisted on
the necessity of being born again, and of having the witness of God's
Spirit with theirs, that they were thus born of God. At first, all the
churches in London were open to them; and the people flocked together
to see and hear two weather-beaten missionaries, whose skin appeared as
if tanned by their continual exposure to the suns and winds of summer
and winter on the continent of America. God attended their preaching
with the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Multitudes were
turned from darkness to light, and from the power of satan unto God; and
many obtained that faith in Christ by which the guilt of sin was removed,
and the fear of death taken away; and had the Spirit of God witnessing
with theirs, that they were the sons and daughters of God Almighty. The
crowds that attended the churches where they preached were so great, that
the clergy thought it proper to refuse them any farther use of their pulpits;