' There and then I took the tobacco
out of my pocket, and threw it into the fire, and put the pipe
under my foot, 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust.' And I have not
smoked since. I found it hard to break off old habits, but I
cried to the Lord for help, and he gave me strength, for he has
said, 'Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver
thee.' The day after I gave up smoking I had the toothache so
bad that I did not know what to do. I thought this was owing to
giving up the pipe, but I said I would never smoke again, if I
lost every tooth in my head. I said, 'Lord, thou hast told us My
yoke is easy and my burden is light,' and when I said that, all
the pain left me. Sometimes the thought of the pipe would come
back to me very strong; but the Lord strengthened me against the
habit, and, bless his name, I have not smoked since."
Bray's biographer writes that after he had given up smoking, he
thought that he would chew a little, but he conquered this dirty
habit, too. "On one occasion," Bray said, "when at a prayer-
meeting at Hicks Mill, I heard the Lord say to me, 'Worship me
with clean lips.
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