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Power of Example
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health and from temperance platforms while they themselves are
under the stimulus of tobacco? If they would have power to influence
the people to overcome their love for stimulants, their words must
come forth with pure breath and from clean lips.—
Testimonies for
the Church 5:441
.
What power can the tobacco devotee have to stay the progress
of intemperance? There must be a revolution upon the subject of
tobacco before the ax will be laid at the root of the tree. Tea, coffee,
and tobacco, as well as alcoholic drinks, are different degrees in
the scale of artificial stimulants.—
Christian Temperance and Bible
Hygiene, 34
.
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