His First Smoke.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2048, 28 March 1887, Page 2

His First Smoke.

The Rev Mr Kish worth, at the recent Wesleyan Conference in Auckland, strongly denounced the use of tobacco. A writer in the New Zealand Herald “ chaffs” Mr Kishworth on the subject, and wonders whether bis detestation of “ the weed is due to early battles with it- “ haps," says the laughing critic—evidently appreciates the delights of smoking—“ it is unpleasantly associated in his early reminiscences with au act of filial disobedience ; what time ho added coin to coin, accumulating stealthily the little treasure of coppers by which he purposed attaining that realisation of a boy’s ambition, lha possession of a fig of tobacco and a pipo. And with saddened feelings now, which even the lapse of timo has failed to soothe, he bethinks him how lie wandered out beneath the trees, and stretched on the green sward, filled his pipe and struck his match, and watched the blue curling smoke ascending, and felt for the first lima what it was to be a man. And then his memory recalls the little twitchiugs ’ f*neath bis little belt, and the strange mysterious upheaval and revolution in the internal economy of the littla Kisbworth's corporeal system,and how he rolled and writhed, and felt that his hour was come, and that he must throw up his immortal soul, and that this was a foretaste of the sufferings of the lost. And he remembers the feeling of moral and physical prostration that supervened—the remorse, ihe blank despair, the headache, the stomach-ache, perhaps the aching of some other portions of his person from the expiatory sufferings inflicted by the parental hand ; and peradventure it may be that he supposes thst these are the evils necessarily incidental to the act of smoking ”