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not decide the question. You may postpone the Act, but 

 there are those who care for you, more than you care for your- 

 selves. We are not supported by popularity in our labours ; 

 and we shall still work on, endeavouring to convince your 

 reason and to rouse your better feelings. . . . Vote against 

 the Act, and you support filth, indecency, intemperance, misery, 

 irreligion. Vote for it, and you are preparing the way for true 

 enjoyment, for self-respect, and for the purity of that body 

 which is the temple of the Holy Spirit." He did indeed 

 " still work on : " the knowledge and experience acquired at 

 Warrington turned to good account at Montreal ; and he, and 

 those who like him cared for their fellow-townsmen more than 

 they cared for themselves, did not persevere in vain. For 

 many years previous to 1847, the average mortality in Warring- 

 ton was 2 7 per thousand ; the average for the five years 

 ending December, 1877, is reduced to 24*3.* In 1847 it was 

 48 : " the mortality of that terrible year rose from 599 to 1008 ; 

 while in the districts outside the town it actually fell from 125 

 to 103." 



We have more than once quoted from " The Helper : " this 

 was a little periodical of about twenty pages, which he pub- 

 lished every month, in 1850. He specially designed it for 

 " young men and young women who are entering upon life 

 with good resolves, and want help in directing and strengthening 

 their principles." " Man has two hands. . One of them he 

 must lift up to heaven, that God's angels may strengthen him 

 and lead him thitherward ; with the other he must help onward 

 his brother who is less favoured than himself. Unless he hold 

 his hand to heaven, his brother will pull him back ; unless he 

 hold out his hand to his brother, God will not lead him on." 

 Most of the little volume was his own writing ; but there are 

 five " Annals of the Poor," by the late Rev. Samuel Martin, 

 the " Oberlin " of Trowbridge : his sister Mary (whose first 

 reformatory publication, "Ragged Schools, by a Worker," is 



* See the Report, for 1878, of the medical officer of health for War- 

 rington. With the present population, this reduction of the rate implies 

 the saving of a hundred lives a year ; but this amount of success invites to 

 further exertions. 



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