Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-06-26
The Worlds Health.

The Worlds Health.
y The most important lesson the worl
!. has TO learn is, that man is unit-lha
| what affects the good OF one directly
;. affects the good Of all, more or less indi
/ rectly.
r, There is a paradoxical saying, lha
= "nothing is ours till we give it away.
This mus! be illustrated Suppose tha
t | know that impure air is injurious, ant
my neighbor does not know this fact
Now may clear my house and my
grounds of impurities, but my nelshbor
in his Ignorance, sees no reason, why
he should make himself, or his premise.
clean. breath the impure air which
is generated from his filth, and my truth
is not my own ill give it to my neigh
Dor, nor is it his, till he gives it 10 his
neighbor, and SO on till the earth is en-.
circled by intelligence for whilst there
is one being in the wide world exhaling
moral and physical corruption, all be.
ings are, more or less, affected by il.
There is 10 knowledge moro needed
than the knowledge of this truth. 1t is
not enough that We partition off dun.
geons in this world, or another, for Of.
lenders, and threaten them with years,
or an eternity Of punishment. This
shutting men up for punishment, or
safe keeping, does not make them good,
or happy. Certain material evils, such
as diity, unvcnlilated buildings, crowd.
ed by sick aud filthy wre,ches, whose
brotherhood TO the mole fortunate eve.
rybody has forgotten, are clearly seen,
thoug h their influence upon others is sell.
dom perceived. An impression sufi.
GENTLY deep for perception is made when
the concentrated evil Of some wre,chcd
location has engendered typhus, or yel.
low fever, or some other plague.
Plague spots cannot get on the globe
without producing effects near and 10.
mote. The Amos phere around the earth
crculates as. the blood in the body, and
as morbid matter is carried by the cir.
cuIaling blood all over the body, so is
an evil in one part Of the globe carried
10 other parts.
Let us read an extract from one OF Mrs.
Nlcholson's letters from Ireland, and let
US remember that this God.appoined
missionary knows and has seen what
she tells US, and then let US think a mo.
ment whether all this putridty of evil
will not travel over the world. 1t NAV
be visited on US in the shape Of cholera
or some other not yet named disease
Mrs. n. says:
81 have seen mu,titudes of houseless
creatures within few weeks, living by
the sides of ditches,and eating turnip tops
for weeks, ill their legs and bodies are
swollen, and they die in the most dread
iul manner. Now all this is:in operation
as kind of discipline to drive them in.
to the poor'house (; promising that when
that is filled, all the remaining hun yry
ones shall be fed out of doors by the
week. These poor.houses, before the
famine, were the abhorance of the poor,
now lhey have become lrightlul, for
last winter they were so packed tina,
when mutilndes were sick by pestilence,
they put two, three, and sometimes four
in the same bed, and when they died
they were placed in a box of rough
boards, SO prepared ,ha, they could be
slid oil into common pit, and these
were put upon a cart, sometimes with
naked feet protruding, and carried to
The place of burial, and the boxes re-.
urned for more bodies. This. as may
De supposed. struck such a panic into
al who saw, or even heard or it, that It
S next to impossible to get any willing
o 60 to it.
Government" says she, "will give
10 relief till these poor.houses are filled,
md this relief is to be loaned to Ireland
o be paid out Of such unheard of taxes
IS can only be equalled by Shylock's
'ound of flesh. In the meanwhile mul. ,
itudes are dying, many are shooting the
gents and landlords-midnight assas.
nations and MONDAY shootings are in.
reasinS iearlully,"
Let no one suppose that material evils
lone affect the health of nation, or G
he world. These are the bodies OF which S
moral evils make the life, and though 6
ho moral dscords that jar the great soul
t man. may not as preceptibly affect
he health Of individuals as material
auses. they just as assufedly underIie
isease. ,