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the lesson by even a suggestion that it might have been the 

 result of a violation of His laws. 



What a commentary upon our religion to hear our spirit- 

 ual teachers endeavor to impress the lesson upon their hear- 

 ers, by charging them to be more faithful in the discharge 

 of religious duties, to be more punctual in their observance 

 of the ordinances of the church, as if the performance of 

 these duties alone would avert such evils. 



INDIVIDUAL DUTY. 



That prayer for the health of ourselves and our house- 

 holds is a sin if not attended by appropriate works of puri- 

 fication and the necessary observance of hygienic laws. The 

 lesson of such a scourge as the one supposed is lost upon us 

 if it does not teach us to properly care for our cellars, sew- 

 ers and wells, and to study the laws which govern our own 

 organisms, and be guided by their precepts in caring for 

 ourselves and our households, 



BAD LUCK. 



The farmer, too, who talks of bad luck when his stock, 

 from like neglect, fail to thrive, or die of disease contracted 

 in consequence of his own culpable ignorance, in this respect 

 is little better than a heathen. There is an appropriate law 

 which governs every phenomenon which tlie farmer observes 

 in connection with his calling, and he, as well as the most 

 profound naturalist, should at least learn the eifccts of the 

 operation of those laws which immediately apply to himself 

 and his business. Sequence follows cause with mathemati- 

 cal precision, in the calling of the farmer, as well as in 

 the laboratory of the chemist. 



