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“Tobacco Is…” / Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats

Gise Vanbaren·1979-03-01
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"Tobacco Is…" There is an old Methodist ditty (I think it must have been "Methodist") that went something like this: "Tobacco is a filthy weed, and from the devil doth proceed; it stains your hands and bums your clothes, and makes a smokestack of your nose." One could always get a good laugh from that -- especially when quoted to good Calvinists who all knew how the fathers puffed away at the old Synod of Dordt. Of a Methodist one could expect such sort of odd ideas. But a good Calvinist and...

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Gise Vanbaren
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1979-03-01

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1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 6:19-201 Corinthians 2:21 Corinthians 1:21
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