Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 6 | Used to Smoke in Church

Used to Smoke in Church. Although austere enough in somo respects. re-spects. Presbyterians of bygone days would have descried no irreverence in the action of the army chaplain who, when holding a service at the front, in-viind in-viind the congregation to smoke while he preached. Sir Walter Scott makes it evident (hat smoking during the sermon was a common enough practice in eighteenth-century Scotland. When Duncan of Knockdunder, "The Heart of Midlothian.'- went to kirk, "lie produced a short tobacco pipe made of iron so soon as the congrega tion were seated after prayers and the clergyman hart read his text lighted it with the assistance assist-ance of Ids pistol flint and smoked with infinite composure during the whole of the sermon. At the end of the discourse he knocked the ashes out of his pipe and joined In the prayer with decency and attention."- -London Chronicle.