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liquor and preach more, he shall have his license demanded." Evidently this remedy was not
effective, for six years later it is ordered that "it be published in the Telescope that Conrad Weast is
no longer a preacher among us."
As in the case of alcohol, the use of tobacco is no more nor less than a phase of the drug habit.
In this matter the United Brethren early took advanced ground, notwithstanding the fact that this
denomination arose in a tobacco-growing region, and likewise where the tobacco habit has always
been very prevalent. The objection raised within the Church is that the habit is unhealthful,
unsanitary, unnecessary, an offense to neatness, and particularly unbecoming in a minister.
In 1867 this resolution was adopted: "That the ministers of the Virginia Conference be advised
to discontinue the habit of using tobacco in all its forms." Since then tobacco has repeatedly been
denounced on the floor of conference. At the present time it is tacitly understood that applicants for
admission to that body are expected to be abstainers from the weed, and that persistence in the
habit by the older members operates as a bar to their advancement to high position.
Chapter XV 59 Concerning Slavery and
Intoxicants
effective, for six years later it is ordered that "it be published in the Telescope that Conrad Weast is
no longer a preacher among us."
As in the case of alcohol, the use of tobacco is no more nor less than a phase of the drug habit.
In this matter the United Brethren early took advanced ground, notwithstanding the fact that this
denomination arose in a tobacco-growing region, and likewise where the tobacco habit has always
been very prevalent. The objection raised within the Church is that the habit is unhealthful,
unsanitary, unnecessary, an offense to neatness, and particularly unbecoming in a minister.
In 1867 this resolution was adopted: "That the ministers of the Virginia Conference be advised
to discontinue the habit of using tobacco in all its forms." Since then tobacco has repeatedly been
denounced on the floor of conference. At the present time it is tacitly understood that applicants for
admission to that body are expected to be abstainers from the weed, and that persistence in the
habit by the older members operates as a bar to their advancement to high position.
Chapter XV 59 Concerning Slavery and
Intoxicants
