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wise IN time, and have friendly relations
with this great people, or we may be
foolish in time, and have relations far
tom friendly" but it is well to take
time by the forelock, and receive the
refuse of The 400, O0A 99e, crowded out.
of their OWE in hospitable land, with due
precautions that adm5t of no delay. In
TIE golden age of eprosy laws were
ensotea by nearly al the princes and
courts sf Europe to arrest its diffusion
among their subjects. The popes issued
bulls wish regard to the ecclesiastical
separation and rights of the injected. A
particular order of knighthood was in
st:tuts3 to watch oEsz the sick. Accord
ing tC. the tenor os various civil codes
and LEGAL enactmeats- in Great Britain
and tther countries when q person be-
came sfflicted with leprosy he was con-
sideEsd as legally and politically deed,
and sOst the privileges belonging to his
right of citizenship. The church also
tooS the same view, and on the dag on
whseh he was separated from, his fellow
creatures and confined for the remainder
of his life to the lazar>house they per-
fosmed over sad around the yet living
Sufferer the various solemn cerenonials
SOr the burial of the dead, and the priest
terminated the long and fearful formula
of his sepa,ation from his livirg fellow-
creatures BY throwing upon the body Of
THE PooR oUTCAsI
a shoveNal of earth, in imitation of the
closure of the grsye. Dust off your
Old Testament, ny friend; turn to the
fourteenth chapter of Lsyiticus and
read how the leprous msn was pro-
nouaced unclean how his clothes were
rent, and he vas Stunned, and his habi-
tsiion was uithouG the camp. Read how
the priest came unto the house, and the
stones in which the plague was were
cast into an unclesn place without the
city, and the house was scrsped, and the
dust of the scrapings was unclean; other
stones were taken to replace the old
stones, and they were plastered with
fresh mortar then the people waited the
results. When the priest came again, if
the plague was spread in the house it
was " fretting leprosy in the house,
and the house was broken down and
the stones of it and the timbers and
mortar were carried out of the city into
an unclesn place; and he that went in
to the house was unclesn and he that
ate in it, or slept in it was unclean, and
his garments were put Of. AS for the
garments of the leper, if the plague
spread in the garments, either in the
warp, or in the wool, or in the skin, it
was " fretting leprosy," and it was
burnt in the fire. This was the law for
the leprosy of garment and of house
in the COOL old days when the priest
looked after the bodies of his flock as
we'll as after the souls. What was the
result? In spite of the stringency of
the Mosaic law, the isolation, the purgO
ing with hyssop, the
CLEANSING BY FIRE,
st. luke has written in mis- gospel xvii,
~: "There met Him ten men who
were lepers, which stood sfar eff; and
they lifted up their voices and cried,
Jesus, master, have mercy on u.s." And
to>day-more than eighteen hundred
years later-the lepers gather upon the
slopes of Mount Zion, and hover at the
gates of Jerusalem, and crouch in the
shadow of the tomb of David, crying for
bread. The leprosy once grated upon
this nation we are lost, for the virus will
course Through the best veins in the
land, and we have seen how hopeless a
task it is to attempt to eradicate the
evil. There is learned and exclusive
essay on "Leprosy and leper hospitals
in Scotland and England" by Sir James
Y. Simpson, Bart, of the University of
Edinburg, wherein much curious infOr-
nation is gathered from all quarters.
Though Sir Jane, notes cases of heredi-
tary leprosy, he does not pretend to
deny the contagious character of the
disease. He gives list OF one hundred
and ten leper>houses that existed in
Great Britain from the twelfth to the
sixteenth century. He says: By
Astrue, Bach and Others, it has been
averred that the leprosy of the Middle
Ages was introduced from the east by
those who returned from the crusades,
though the disease was not unknown on |
the continent at an caller period, and
there were two warehouses at Canter-
bury during the reign of William the
Conqueror, seven years previous to the
first crusade" Even
THE ROYAL FAMILIES
Of England and Scotland were not ex-
smpt from suspicion. Henry III. was
accused of being leper. 1t was local
tradition that the leper-house of Water
ord, in Ireland, was founded by King
John, father of Henry Ill, in con
sequence of his son being afflicted at Lis
more with an eruption that was thought
% be leprosy. Historians have alleged
hat Henry ". was leprous toward the