The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-08-29
NUMBER %.
Plucky Preachers.

Plucky Preachers.
Memphis, Aug. 81 read In the
Memphis Appeal Of this date the
, following notices for religious ser
vices in this city:
"Grace Episcopal cburch-seYvi-
ces at II a. m. by the pastor, Rev.
Dalzell.
"Methodist ehurch-services at
II a. m. by the pastor Rev. J. d.
Stewart.
"First PreSbyterian CHURCH.
servises at II q. m. by the pastor,
Rev. w. E. Boggs."
Here are four.o Of our Protestant
ministers remaining at their posts
of duty In the midst of daD1erous
sickness and almost certain death,
exposing their lives for the Mas.
ter's sake. We who are here feel,
as thousands of others do, that it
lis the duty of preachers, TO remain
with their people while the great
destroyer is reaping bis harvest,
that. the faith which they preach
must be illustrated by their words.
These ministers are preaching more
effectually by imperiling their lives
than they ever can do BY sermons
from thepulpit.-Cowriev Joxvxal.
The. above comes from q man
editing a paper in Louisville, at .
safe distance from the attack of
yellow fever, and can afford to
cheer on those who remain in the
pestilential city. Read the follow.
ing from the Memphis Appeal,
whose editor, Col. Keating, remain
cd in Memphis last year and was .
worker in the thickest of the fight.
He is there now doing gnoble service,
but his experience hast year has
learned him, as well as all other
sensible men, a lesson never to be
forgotten. But see what he said
this year when the fever first made
AtS hPpceLGuCc'
FLY FOR YOUR LIVES.
We ontreat that every man, wo-
man and child who has not had the
yellow fever, leave this city at once
without days delay; there is
nothing to be gained by remaining
here. Hereafter, until the health
board announces that it is safe for
tho people to come back, there will
not be employment for any but doc.
tors and nurses, (and we hope that
will be limited to starvation rate.)
All mechanical business has or will
be stopped this week. No stores or
offices will be kept open save where
men arc employed who have had
the fever.
There will be nothing to do. It
will, therefore, be prudent thing
for all to remove from the city and
get as speedily as possible to o
place. of safety. A live man is
worth more than @ million dead
ones. Last year 98 per cent. OF all
the white people who remained
here were taken with the fever, and
70 per cent. died. In other words,
only two of every hundred escaped,
and the doctors and nurses, after
the expenditure of fabulous sums
of money, great skill, and q sleep
less vigilance, could only save 18
out of every hundred. Surely we
do not want these appalling figures
If every one who has
not had the fever will go away, they
will not be repeated. By as many
as stay we will. ..-....s. ....,r
There is no known specific for
This terrible disease. The doctors
ian not grspple with it with the
that characterizes them
u the treatment of any other of
our local fevers. They have not
yet been able to find medicine
hat will arrest the speedily killing
POISON that disintegrates the blood,
md delivers its first blow at the
very seat of life. The best of them
stand appalled, at its suddenness
'f attack, it's overwhelming, savage
md relentless subjection of the will
NJ we'll as the physique to it's pur-
,Oses, and the wholesale destruo-
ion of life that follows upon its
Two in ten is but q
slight chance for life. The theory
,t sanitary statisticisns is that the
ieath rate in a whole year should
rot be more than Is in 1000. These
igures, and the facts We have had
before our readers, should be sufi-
,ient without another word from
is to induce the removal at once
If erery one who has not had tho
ever. 'f
We repeat our urgent entresty
hat, without waiting for further
developments, every man, woman
nd child leave the city to-day, or
{ farthest by tomorrow night whr
as not had the yellow fever. W a
hvise this as measure of preG an.
on justified by the dearly bou obt
xperience of the awful epideT ,ie of
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