FREEMAN AND TOBACCO by Wm. Covert

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 6, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 19

FREEMAN AND TOBACCO.

By Wm. Covert

BY ELD. WM. COVERT.

Satan’s tactics ever have been to cause some of his agents to commit some terrible crime, and then throw the blame on some innocent party. Several hundred years ago he introduced from heathendom into the so-called civilized nations of earth the unnatural and foolish habit of tobacco-using, and a little more than a year ago the “habit” caused Charles Freeman to murder his innocent little daughter in the name of the Christian religion. It was then published that the Adventists were guilty of this great crime; but the following extract will place the blame where it belongs:—

“The court has fully decided that the man Freeman who killed his child at Pocasset, Mass., about a year ago, was and is insane.

“But it is further said that the insanity is not the result of religious ecstasy, but of the excessive use of tobacco, which had resulted in the derangement of his entire nervous system.”—Herald and Presbyter, Feb. 18. How very offensive is such a habit in the sight of God.