296 THE KING- ' S B U S I N E S S Now, for over twenty-five years the medical fraternity, the leading educators, the Anti-Cigarette League, the W. C. T. II., the Y. M. C. A., the churches, and moral forces of all kinds have put forth strenuous efforts to stop the cigarette habit. The use of cigarettes was prohibited in many states; many business men refused to employ a man addicted to the habit; thousands of men were unfit for service in the Spanish War, and thousands rejected in the last war, because they had the cigarette heart. What of the days to come, when our young men begin the awful fight to overcome this habit? What will be their attitude towards those under whose auspices they learned it, and whom they were led to believe repre sented the moral forces of America? What about the mothers and wives and sisters of the young fellows into whose hearts will come a hatred, bitter and strong, for these who caused their downfall? It will take more than twenty-five years to undo the damage to human life and character wrought in this devilish, subtle business in one year, and eternity alone will measure the harvest which must be reaped from the mind and muscle, soul and spirit destroying habit; and those who are responsible for this great sin will never be able to overcome the stigma which will be attached to them. What we sow we must reap. What has been sown in the lives of these men will bring a harvest of woe. We must pray and labor to stem the tide the best we can, for this is a real “ yellow peril!”—T. C. H.
Suggestive Scriptures for Special Meditation 2 Tim. 4:1-5. E 3 1 charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, re buke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
THE LATE DR. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN
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