Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-01

toxin has robbed diphtheria of all its
,terrors
The end is not yet II is barely two
years since Or Frederick r. Russell ma
jor of the United States army medical
corps. proclaimed that which the journal
OF the American Medical Association has
called zone of the most striking prophy-
Tactic achievements Of recent times" The
results seem to warrant the assertion, for
anti-typhold vaccination has within the
brief compass Of six years reduced ty-
rhoid fever I'm the United States army
from two hundred thirty-sevcn. to three
cases, and not single death during the
last reported year. The physician is the
most self-sacrhcng of all public servants
and the least likely to- win remembered
name, but his skifu devotion Is witnessed
in the life he saves for extended service
to family, to society or to State. II
would be impossible to record here the
, successive triumphs of medical science.
still i'm its infancy, in this early part of
the seven thousand year week, hut we
know the march toward the conquest of
disease is steadily forward and that there
is sure promise Of ultimate victory.
| ADVANCE OF SPIRITUAL IDEALS.
Some one may have remarked that all
this recorded progress is in the realms
of the material and the physical. Has
there been any advance Of the spiritual
ideals for which Christianity is the avow-
ed sponsor? The cYnc snarls out the
question Are not morality and all the /
! lofty conceptions of human brotherhood (
enunciated by Christ decadent in this
ten O'Clock hour Of His second day?'
| The scoffers are not peculiar to any
age. We have them always with us.
This second Petrne letter warns lis that
there shall come in the last days scot
fers, walking after their own lusts and
saving. whore is the promise Of His COM
Ing? For since the fathers fell asleep.
all things continue rs they were from
the beginning of creation We hear
them now referring to the conflict that
has turned half the world upside down
and wondering what has become Of God.
They ask Where Is the parliament of
man in the federation OF the world?'
! They inquire How do YOU explain the |
impotence Of The Prince Of Peace?" For
this they willingly are ignorant of that
by the word of God the heavens were of
old. and the earth standing out of the
water and in the water: Whereby the |
world that then was, being overhowed !
with water persisted hut the heavens
and the earth which are now, by the
same word are kept in store. reserved |
tunto fire against tho day of judgment (
and perditon of ungodlv man. But be-
loved. be not ignorant of this one thing.
that one dav is with the Lord as thou
sand years and thousand years as one .
day" It IS the evening hour OF Gods
second day but It is morning, Young peo-
pie the morning Of the Christian era
Nearly nineteen hundred wears ago Pom
titus PLATE ordered a basin OF water
I brought to him. and standing in the Je-
| rusalem rraetorium by the side of the one
blameless Man known to the records of !
time he washed his hands before the |
multitude saying am innocent of the
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wrath. They may cry increasingly with
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