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acquired a foothold in the United States
more than once, but have been driven out again. They are proposed
every year almost, at some State Legislature, and often have been
proposed at several different legislatures during a single year. They
are in operation, to some extent at least, under the United States
flag at Hawaii, in the Philippines, and at Porto Rico. The enforcement
of the Acts must depend to a large extent upon the co-operation of the
male fornicator with the police and officers of the law, and places
good women and girls terribly in the power of malicious or designing
libertines.
It appears from official records, that in Hong Kong, during six months
in 1886-7, out of 139 women denounced by British soldiers and sailors
as having communicated contagion, 102 were on examination found free
from disease, and only 37 to be diseased; and during a similar
period in 1887-8, out of 103 women that were denounced, 101 were on
examination found free from disease and only two diseased. We can
judge from this of both the worthlessness of the measure for tracing
diseased women, and the mischievousness of the measure as an aid to
libertines in getting girls they are endeavoring to seduce so injured
in reputation that they can easily capture their prey.
As a sanitary measure, the Acts have invariably proved a failure, as
shown by honestly handled statistics. There have, to be sure, been
many doctors, some of high scientific qualifications, who have
produced statistics strongly tending to prove the sanitary benefits
of such measures on superficial survey. But these statistics have
afterwards been shown to be mistakenly handled or designedly
manipulated to make such a showing. This is not a m

the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
"This people have I formed for myself; I have established them to shew forth
my praise, etc.
"I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember thy sins. Put in remembrance your ingratitude: see
thou, if thou mayest be justified. Thy first father hath sinned, and thy
teachers have transgressed against me."
Is. 44.: "I am the first, and I am the last, saith the Lord. Let him who
will equal himself to me, declare the order of things since I appointed the
ancient people, and the things that are coming. Fear ye not: have I not told
you all these things? Ye are my witnesses."
Prophecy of Cyrus.--Is. 45:4: "For Jacob's sake, mine elect, I have called
thee by thy name."
Is. 45:21: "Come and let us reason together. Who hath declared this from
ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord?"
Is. 46: "Remember the former things of old, and know there is none like me,
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that
are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure."
Is. 42: "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."
Is. 48:3: "I have declared the former things from the beginning; I did them
suddenly; and they came to pass. Because I know that thou art obstinate,
that thy spirit is rebellious, and thy brow brass; I have even declared it
to thee before it came to pass: 

of
it, have borrowed from it their principal laws; this is evident from what
are called the Twelve Tables, and from the other proofs which Josephus
gives.
But this law is at the same time the severest and strictest of all in
respect to their religious worship, imposing on this people, in order to
keep them to their duty, a thousand peculiar and painful observances, on
pain of death. Whence it is very astonishing that it has been constantly
preserved during many centuries by a people, rebellious and impatient as
this one was; while all other states have changed their laws from time to
time, although these were far more lenient.
The book which contains this law, the first of all, is itself the most
ancient book in the world, those of Homer, Hesiod, and others, being six or
seven hundred years later.
621. The creation of the deluge being past, and God no longer requiring to
destroy the world, nor to create it anew, nor to give such great signs of
Himself, He began to establish a people on the earth, purposely formed, who
were to last until the coming of the people whom the Messiah should fashion
by His spirit.
622. The c