The complete works . sty, privy, vault, and cess])ool werequiie full, and after a shower of rain the contents were washed up to andpast the door. The family was in an emaciated state, and one of the chil-dren was suffering from fever. After inspecting that part of the village theyproceeded to the house of a man named Harrison, who, with his wife, waslaid up with fever; both man and wife were buried in one grave yesterdayweek, leaving five children to be supported by the union. When visitedthe imfortunate couple were in the last stage of fever, and the villagers hadsuch a dread of the disease t
The complete works . sty, privy, vault, and cess])ool werequiie full, and after a shower of rain the contents were washed up to andpast the door. The family was in an emaciated state, and one of the chil-dren was suffering from fever. After inspecting that part of the village theyproceeded to the house of a man named Harrison, who, with his wife, waslaid up with fever; both man and wife were buried in one grave yesterdayweek, leaving five children to be supported by the union. When visitedthe imfortunate couple were in the last stage of fever, and the villagers hadsuch a dread of the disease that none of them would enter the house, andthe clergj-man and relieving officer had to administer the medicine them-selves. Harrison was the best workman in the parish. The cost to theunion has already been 121., and at the lowest computation a cost of 600^.would fall upon the union for maintaining the children, and probably theymight remain paupers for life. This amount would have been sufficient todrain the FORS CLAVIGERA. 53 LETTER XXYIII. Brantwood, 20th Feb., 1873. I WAS again stopped by a verse Id St. Johns gospel thismorning, not because I had not thought of it before, oftenenough ; but because it bears much on our immediate businessin one of its expressions,— Ye shall be scattered, every manto his own. His own what? His own property, his own rights, his own opinions, his ownplace, I suppose one must answer? Every man in his ownplace; and every man actiug on his own opinions; and everyman having his own way. Those are somewhat your ownnotions of the rightest possible state of things, are they not i And you do not think it of any consequence to ask whatsort of a place your own is ? As for instance, taking the reference farther on, to the oneof Christs followers who that night most distinctly of all thatwere scattered,ybwTi^ his place, and stayed in it,— This min-istry and Apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell,that he might go to his own placed W
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