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their personal application. 



If I violate that part of this great code bj which physi- 

 cal health is governed I expose my life, and I must take the 

 consequences and suffer for my sin against the law. And 

 what folly for us of this enlightened age to charge the 

 effects of such sin upon our Creator. 



POPULAR ERRORS. 



If I go from my warm dwelling into the open air in mid- 

 winter and stand, with my feet half clad, upon the snow 

 while talking with a friend, I violate natural laws ; and if 

 the result is lung fever, or pulmonary consumption, and con- 

 sequent death, I alone am responsible for the result. Yet 

 mourning friends would doubtless talk of the event as one 

 of uio irysterious providences of God, and never think of it 

 as the result of violated law, and go on themselves sinning 

 as before. 



If I allow decayed vegetables, garbage and filth to accura" 

 ulatc in my cellar, foul sewerage to affect the water in my 

 well or poison the air of my dwelling, these violations of 

 natural law will be very liable to culminate in some fearful 

 scourge like dysentery, typhoid fever or kindred evils, and 

 if members of my household are thus removed by death, 

 purely in consequence of my culpable ignorance or neglect, 

 what a commentary upon our civilization to hear from the 

 sacred desk the statement that this is the result of God's 

 inscrutable providence, that He fixes the limit of our days, 

 and that the occurrence was only the result of the fact that 

 the victims of my sin had reached the limit assigned them ; 

 thus charging the calamity upon God, and not improving 



