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port themselves on this question f Have they entered an intelligent 
protest against this accursed ignorance ? No ! no ! they out He¬ 
rod Herod , For the gratification of their bust fulness, they are 
perfectly willing to kindle consumptive fires in the bodies of their 
wife and children. Ministers with worn out wives , and large 
families dying early deaths , are more the rule than the exception. 
The writer is no enemy of the ch urch. She can be of immense 
benefit when site knows enough to attend to the soul of to-day and 
let the, morrow take care of itself: “ Sufficient unto the day is the 
evil thereoff said the noble Jesus. Morals ! Morals ! Mes % 
Church , morals ! Society morals ! Who will be the Apostle of 
physiological morals / Syphilis is another kindred child to 
Phthisis, aye, plays a part in the genesis of the, fell destroyer. Met 
who absolutely forbids such people to marry f Marry ! “ Oh, yes ’’ 
says the intelligent doctor, “perfectly cured , oh, yes; 11 and the 
child produced not, on ly brands the medical adviser a liar , a st upid 
and irresponsible ignoramus, but publishes the father's “ cured ’’ 
(?) condition to the world. Verily the sins of the fathers are 
manifested in their children. 
After we have gathered these numerical statistics, still another 
form of no secondary interest demands attention ; it is not enough 
to know the number of deaths resulting over a country from a 
number of given diseases. We do absolutely nothing except to es¬ 
tablish a percentage each year with such figures. To complete the 
work, it is necessary that all natural influences should lie most 
carefully observed by competent observers. We must have accu¬ 
rate reports with reference to the stand of ground-water all over 
the country, and seek to accurately define the relations of the 
same to typhus and typhoid diseases ; we must know thfc influences 
exerted on the outbreak and extension of diseases by the water 
courses and prevailing winds ; we must know what diseases pre¬ 
vail in the valleys, and what do not prevail on the highlands; we 
must know the influences exerted on the diseases of people living on 
high and exposed table lands, as well as the inhabitants of wooded 
districts ; we must know accurately the influence exerted by tem¬ 
perature changes, by dry and wet seasons ; we must know the in¬ 
fluences animals exert on man, and vice versa. And when all this 
