ciety; especially after you have paid your subscriptions for some years. Consider, if you act so imprudently, you will lose all the benefit of your former contributions; and if you are angry, you will but revenge yourselves upon yourselves!-If, on any account, you have fully determined to withdraw from the society, take the earliest opportunity of informing the managers, in a very civil and respectful manner; without giving them the trouble of making any inquiries after you. Wish well to the society which you have left; and say all the good you can of it.-Many persons who have, since they first became members of such societies, risen in the world, have very kindly continued their contributions, not intending to receive any benefit themselves, but merely from a desire to assist and encourage others, who have been less prosperous; or from a grateful remembrance of the benefit which they once received themselves: such conduct is very pleasing; and deserves to be imitated by all who are in the same circumstances.

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PARENTS! if you wish your children to grow up as strong, and healthy, and beautiful, as Providence will allow if you do not wish to spread a most loathsome, painful, and dangerous disorder amongst your neighbours, and their children; or to have, in your own families, more sickness, more trouble and fatigue in nursing, and more doctors, and doctors' stuff, to pay for, than you can help: let your children, as

soon as possible, be inoculated for the cow pox, by some surgeon, or apothecary, or other skilful person, on whose care and judgment you can fully depend; and be very thankful to Almighty God that this great and useful discovery has been made, in your day.-Inoculation for the cow pox has now been used for several years, with the greatest success. Many thousand persons received it, in the small pox hospital in London; and though some thousands of them were afterwards inoculated for the natural small pox, not one of them took the infection. The cow pox inoculation is considered as a very great blessing, not only in this country, but in every part of the world, where it has ever been tried. In the East Indies, many thousand persons have passed through it, without one failure.— The British Parliament has highly commended it; and given a handsome reward to Dr. Jenner, the physician who made the discovery. And it has been highly commended by physicians, clergymen, and almost all kinds of persons, in all places, who have had any opportunity of seeing its good eflects*. From the best authorities, it may be affirmed of this mode of inoculation,

* The Rev. J. T. A. Reed, having kindly inoculated, for the cow pox, without fee or present, upwards of four thousand seven hundred persons, in the neighbourhood of Buckingham, made the following declarations, in the year 1807 : “1. After a practice of more than six years, I declare that no instance has occurred of any one inoculated by me, being afterwards infected with the small pox. 2. I never, during that period, have seen a single arm, that required surgical assistance; or any other dressing, further than a little oil, or milk and water. 3. I never knew an instance of a life being endangered, or a taint left in the constitution, by the cow pox. On the contrary, I can produce per

it is perfectly safe, and seldom painful; it may be given to infants of any age; it never disfigures the person inoculated; when it is properly given, it either totally prevents the small pox, or renders it, in almost every case, mild and free from danger; the disease which it produces, is so slight, that it seldom hinders the people who have it, from following their usual occupations; and it spreads no infection.

Young people! if you, and your brothers and sisters, have not already been inoculated, or had the natural small pox, try to persuade your parents, to let you, and them, be inoculated for the cow pox, as soon as possible. Follow the advice of good and wise people; and trust in the Lord's care and goodness.

2. On cleanliness.

Cleanliness contributes very much to the growth of children; and to the health and comfort of all persons. "Cleanliness," says the proverb, "is next to godliness."

We ought to be very cleanly, both for the sake of our own health, and comfort, and credit; and for the sake of the health and comfort of all who live with us, or come near us. It is very unpleasant to look upon filthy persons, or to be near them; their smell is offen

sons, who date a period of health unknown before, from the turn of the cow pox; this disease having apparently a tendency to cleanse the constitution."-When Mr. Reed, having fully satisfied himself of the safety and propriety of the cow pox inoculation, proposed to inoculate his parishioners, his offer was very generally accepted. Many of them, being milkers, said: "We all know that nobody ever died of the cow pox ; and we all know that nobody ever had the small pox after it: but what an odd thing it is, that any body should think of inoculating with it!" Some of the persons whom Mr. Reed inoculated, nursed small pox patients; and even slept with those, who died in a most dreadful condition.

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sive; their filth, and the vermin with which they abound, bugs, fleas, and lice, often infect the cleanly. The itch, and many other diseases, arise, chiefly, from the want of cleanliness. An eminent physician recommends, as a great means of promoting health, that every person should be washed from head to foot, once a week, on the evening before the sabbath-day. Bad fevers seldom break out, or continue long, in houses that are thoroughly clean; and have plenty of fresh air let into them, by the frequent opening of doors and windows. Children who have lousy, scabby heads, and their skin covered with filth and vermin; and who have on only a few dirty, ragged clothes, not sufficient to keep their poor little bodies warm, or even to hide their nakedness; are a disgrace to their parents, and to a Christian country: and such children, if they live, mostly grow up to be idle, bold, and worthless men and women. It costs so little to be clean, and requires so little time and attention every day, that the poorest people alive, may be clean, if they will but exert themselves.-How refreshing cleanliness is, whether we are in sickness, or in health! how enlivening to the spirits! how good both for our bodies and minds! and how very pleasing, to all who look upon us, or who have any dealings with us! even filthy people themselves love and admire cleanliness in others.

And we ought to be cleanly, because it is written in the Bible: "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit." (2 Corinthians vii. 1.) "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?-Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." (1 Corinthians vi. 19, 20.) "Pre

sent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." (Romans

xii. 1.) Our bodies cannot be fit temples for the Holy Ghost, nor holy sacrifices to God, if they are filthy: nothing is holy that is unclean.

3. On fortunetelling, &c.

Spend no time, nor money, on fortunetellers, or conjurers, or any such kind of people. They are idle, and wicked. They prefer getting their living by imposing upon people, rather than by honest labour. They pretend to know what nobody knows but the Almighty; and what nobody ought to wish to know. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," as it is said in the Bible; and, "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Besides, witchcraft and fortunetelling, and all such base doings, are strictly forbidden by the holy law of God. "Ye shall not use enchantments, nor observe times." (Leviticus xix. 26.) Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them : I am the Lord your God." (Leviticus xix. 31.) "There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer: for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord." (Deuteronomy xviii. 10, 11, 12.)

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It is very foolish to talk about lucky or unlucky days. The great God made all the days; and he is alike good, and wise, and powerful, on all days. He made all the days there are, for good purposes; and none for evil We shall find that all days are lucky, on which we mind our business, and earnestly endeavour to do our duty. And it is very foolish to talk, as some people

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