I think in all things we should be healthy, and in all things that we derive pleasure from, be thankful. For God is the source of all good pleasure. Thats an very good point about the food but we kind of have to eat in order to survive, whereas we dont need to smoke to survive. I never really thought about it before, but I guess we should watch what we eat.
Do you mean that God is standing behind anything we find pleasure in? Any good pleasure, yes. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. He saw the error of smoking a little while before he went to Heaven , and I am sure he saw the errors of hyper-Calvinism, besides those he himself criticized, as soon as he reached Heaven. Related Tags: cigars , John Rice , smoking. This entry was posted on February 28, at am and is filed under C.
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You are commenting using your Twitter account. He was a good public speaker, nothing more. I have professing christian male relatives who all smoke cigars, even the women sometimes. Yet they are convinced they are saved. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. Biblical Truth Resources. Skip to content. Give me a preacher who calls sinners to repent at the altar any day over a tobacco smoking preacher! Even Finney, who was a contemporary of Spurgeon, knew that smoking was a sin. And, in your letter to the Editor of the Telegraph, though your tone is subdued, and your language that of apology, you are still intolerant and unjust.
First, you say that we, anti-tobacco advocates, charge you with living in habitual sin. We do not. We declare war to the knife against tobacco, and the drinking customs which go hand in hand with tobacco, but we do not presume to sit in judgment upon you or any other man.
You must be guided by your own judgment and conscience. To your own Master, you stand or fall [Rom. We should like to make a convert of you. We know what a powerful ally you would be. But even while you are arrayed against us and smiting us with vigorous, blows, we believe that you are honest and sincere in your antagonism, and we feel sure that if you believed smoking to be an evil thing you would at once and at any cost abandon it. You are less charitable in your treatment of us.
Do you really believe all this? Are the conductors of the Band of Hope [Ed Note: the church youth group] at your Metropolitan Tabernacle a company of Pharisees, training up the young in the "Pharisaic system? I do not know whether a pledge against tobacco is taken with the pledge against intoxicating drinks in the Tabernacle Band of Hope.
Probably so. But if not, it matters little to my argument. The crusade against tobacco is conducted on precisely the same principles as the crusade against strong drink; and the arguments by which we advocate the one are almost identical with those by which we advocate the other. Well, we are in good company. We follow that arch-Pharisee who said, "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth [I Cor.
One describes his pilgrimage along the steep rough path of self-denial, and tells us how he "took his cigar-box before the Lord, and cried for help. Which would it be to the advantage of the young men, who heard both, to follow? But I wish in this letter to raise a question of far greater importance than that of smoking. In defending your "good cigar," you laid down a principle. You indicated a rule of Christian life and conduct.
Now, Sir, forgive me if I seem, uncharitable and harsh I hold that that principle is false, mischievous, and utterly repugnant to the teaching of Christ and his Apostles.
This is a far more important question than that of your right to "smoke a good cigar. You expressly repudiate any other law, when you decline to be bound by an eleventh or a twelfth commandment.
Did it strike you that this was a two-edged argument? To the letter? In every detail? If so, you are a much maligned man. I have not so learned Christ. I will do this, not by argument, but by use.
Yet one word. Can any Christian picture to himself the Blessed Master with "a good cigar in His mouth? I think so. Practical Christianity consists in a constant endeavor to to be in all things like Christ. I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, W.
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