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Chit Chat.
the rest in industry and exertion . The master , perceiving this , took him one day out with him to refresh himself by a walk . In the evening , when all the workmen came to receive their wages , the industrious one also appeared , and received his full wages . Thereupon the others murmured , saying : 'We have worked and toiled the whole ofthe clay , and this one who has only worked two hours , why should he receive as much as we ? ' But the master replied : ' This one hacl clone more in two
hours than you have during the whole day . ' Rabbi Bun , whom we now lament , was the industrious workman in the vineyard of the Lord . During his short stay on earth , he has effected more good than many have during a life of a hundred years' duration . Therefore his slumber is sweet , ancl his reward great . "
BURIAL PLACES IN EGYPT AND IN IRELAND . —Can we wonder that the inhabitants of Egypt resemble in appearance the carcases with whom they dwell ; can we hesitate to account for the constant development of a pestilence , when we reflect that by clay and by night , for twelve centuries , the soil on which Cairo stands , its crowded courts , and narrow streets have been inundated by the filthy excretions of animals and of man ; that clay and night , for centuries , the earth has been imbibing the putrid sanies from the bodies of thousands of animalspermitted to rot
, over its surface ; that day and night , for centuries , it has been imbibing the fluid contents of imperfect cloacea ? , and the poisonous exhalations . of its half-buried inhabitants , until the sub-soil has become one vast hotbed of pestilential infection . Now , the burial places in this kingdom have little to boast of over those of Egypt . There is this distinction , however , to be drawn . In the latter countrythe system employed is at once recognized and
-, per mitted . In England , men pay " funeral clues , " under the impression that their dead fulfil their destiny—return " ashes to ashes , dust to dust . " Whether they gain more by their purchase than a solemn plausability , those who have heard these Lectures , or perused what I have written , can determine for themselves .
The condition of the burial-places in Ireland seems to be even worse than those in other portions of the United Kingdom , although they are almost universally in a most disgusting and dangerous condition . In the neighbourhood of Castle Island and Ballylongford , in the above country , from the imperfect covering thrown over the recent dead , troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies . Violent madness is the result , which has led these rabid animals not only to attack one another , but the cattle in the fields .
Methinks our boasted civilization , expansive as it is , may clothe itself in sack-cloth and ashes—it should hide its head for very shame . That man , the image of his God , the heir of immortality , trampled upon during life , hideous in death , should again be made the victim of well deserved punishment to his survivors , is a fearful reflection for those who see in the PRESENT the forebodings of a more terrible FUTURE .
BURIAL-PLACES IN EGYPT —THE PRODUCERS OP PLAGUE . —In ancient Egypt the plague was unknown . Although densely populated , the health of the inhabitants was preserved by strict attention to sanitary regulations . But with time came on change , and that change was in man . The serene climate , the enriching river , the fruitful soil remained ; but when the experience of 2 , 000 years was set at nought ; when the precautions previously adopted for preserving the soil from accumulated impurities
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Chit Chat.
the rest in industry and exertion . The master , perceiving this , took him one day out with him to refresh himself by a walk . In the evening , when all the workmen came to receive their wages , the industrious one also appeared , and received his full wages . Thereupon the others murmured , saying : 'We have worked and toiled the whole ofthe clay , and this one who has only worked two hours , why should he receive as much as we ? ' But the master replied : ' This one hacl clone more in two
hours than you have during the whole day . ' Rabbi Bun , whom we now lament , was the industrious workman in the vineyard of the Lord . During his short stay on earth , he has effected more good than many have during a life of a hundred years' duration . Therefore his slumber is sweet , ancl his reward great . "
BURIAL PLACES IN EGYPT AND IN IRELAND . —Can we wonder that the inhabitants of Egypt resemble in appearance the carcases with whom they dwell ; can we hesitate to account for the constant development of a pestilence , when we reflect that by clay and by night , for twelve centuries , the soil on which Cairo stands , its crowded courts , and narrow streets have been inundated by the filthy excretions of animals and of man ; that clay and night , for centuries , the earth has been imbibing the putrid sanies from the bodies of thousands of animalspermitted to rot
, over its surface ; that day and night , for centuries , it has been imbibing the fluid contents of imperfect cloacea ? , and the poisonous exhalations . of its half-buried inhabitants , until the sub-soil has become one vast hotbed of pestilential infection . Now , the burial places in this kingdom have little to boast of over those of Egypt . There is this distinction , however , to be drawn . In the latter countrythe system employed is at once recognized and
-, per mitted . In England , men pay " funeral clues , " under the impression that their dead fulfil their destiny—return " ashes to ashes , dust to dust . " Whether they gain more by their purchase than a solemn plausability , those who have heard these Lectures , or perused what I have written , can determine for themselves .
The condition of the burial-places in Ireland seems to be even worse than those in other portions of the United Kingdom , although they are almost universally in a most disgusting and dangerous condition . In the neighbourhood of Castle Island and Ballylongford , in the above country , from the imperfect covering thrown over the recent dead , troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies . Violent madness is the result , which has led these rabid animals not only to attack one another , but the cattle in the fields .
Methinks our boasted civilization , expansive as it is , may clothe itself in sack-cloth and ashes—it should hide its head for very shame . That man , the image of his God , the heir of immortality , trampled upon during life , hideous in death , should again be made the victim of well deserved punishment to his survivors , is a fearful reflection for those who see in the PRESENT the forebodings of a more terrible FUTURE .
BURIAL-PLACES IN EGYPT —THE PRODUCERS OP PLAGUE . —In ancient Egypt the plague was unknown . Although densely populated , the health of the inhabitants was preserved by strict attention to sanitary regulations . But with time came on change , and that change was in man . The serene climate , the enriching river , the fruitful soil remained ; but when the experience of 2 , 000 years was set at nought ; when the precautions previously adopted for preserving the soil from accumulated impurities