IT is a good thing, perhaps, to 

 write for the amusement of the 

 public, but it is a far higher ahd 

 nobler thing to write for their in- 

 struction, their profit, their actual 

 and tangible benefit. The- latter is 

 the sole object of this article. If it 

 prove the means of restoring to 

 health one solitary sufiFerer aniong 

 my race, of lighting up once more 

 the fire of hope and joy in his faded 

 eyes, of bringing back to his dead 

 heart again the quick, generous 

 impulses of other days, I shall be 

 amply rewarded for my labor ; my 

 soul will be permeated with the sacred delight a Christian feels when he has 

 done a good, unselfish deed. 



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