“ The keeping the church pure, is the most important trust we can hold from God; and for which we will be awfully responsible. But the greater part pay little attention to this subject, they attend the church that is most fashionable, or where their fathers went before them; of the principles of different denominations they know little, because they think little about religion, and "care for none of these things." ”

“ God has sent the pestilence among us, which has carried upwards of fifty millions of the human family, and hundreds of our neighbourhood, to the grave; and He is now looking on to see the moral effects it will have upon survivors; and our improvement may be counted doubtful if we are averse to have our attention turned to the subject. We have now time to reflect on what we have suffered; and we ought to give thanks to the God of Providence, that the pestilence is now so generally abated. ”

“ In every town and district, from the Ganges to the Wear, the drunkard has been the object of its earliest attack, and its most ruthless visitation." The London Morning Herald observes, that "The same preference for the intemperate and the uncleanly has characterized the Cholera every where. Intemperance is a qualification which it never overlooks. Often has it passed harmlessly over a wide population of temperatc country people, and poured down as an overflowing scourge upon the drunkards of some distant town." ”

“ The habitual use of ardent spirits, in the smallest quantity, seldom fails to invite the Cholera, and to render it ineurable when it takes place. Five-sixths of all who have fallen by the disease in England, it is computed were taken from the ranks of the intemperate and dissolute." Dr. Rhinelander, of the city of New York, who had an opportunity of witnessing the Cholera in Montreal, recommends "entire abstinence from spirituous liquors."-"Temperance," says he, "in every shape, is the great preventive. ”

“ Spasmodic Cholera is a disease of modern origin. It was early in the year 1818, that accounts were brought to this country of a new and dreadful disorder that had appeared in India, by which some died almost instantaneously, and others were carried off in a few hours. It is said to have broke out first in August 1817, at Jessore near Calcutta; and, in the course of a few weeks, 10,000 persons fell victims. The inhabitants, astonished and terrified, fled in crowds to the country, to escape impending death. ”

“ None need deny that certain circumstances in the physical, and in the righteous government of God in the moral condition of a people, tend to generate and spread this disease. The Bible teaches us that God is the moral Governor of the world; but if this tract fall into the hands of any who esteem revelation lightly, we would wish.to establish that the constitution of nature proclaims this most important truth,—the heavenly bodies, animals, vegetables, and every natural object are subject to certain laws, which are undeviating and, unflexible. ”

“ Sabbath Profanation, is often mentioned in the catalogue of Israel's sins, for which they received the severest judgments. It prevails in all grades of society in our country, and may subject us to similar calamities. Many pay little attention to it externally; fewer make it regulate their conversation, and fewer still make its spiritual ty bear upon the thoughts of the inner man. God forsaw that the avarice and cruelty of man would deprive his creatures of their due rest, so he appointed a day for his public worship; where the rich and the poor meet on the same level ”

“ The little attention that is paid to the principles of divine revelation, in our intercourse with the world, is another prominent sin; it would not be known that many make a profession of religion at all, except from their appearance on Sabbath. For instance, if they have a vote to give for a legislator, the command, "Provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, hating covetousness," seem to have little influence with the multitude ”

“ They are as real as if the sky over our heads eolleeted and brought down about us all the notes of sorrow in the land; and the firm earth should open a passage for the wailings of despair to come up from beneath. ”

“ Monsieur Huber, who saw 2160 persons perish in 25 days, (more than 86 a day,) in one town in Russia, says, "It is a most remarkable circumstance, that persons given to drinking have been swept away like flies. In Tiffis, containing 20,000 inhabitants, every drunkard has fallen! All are dead! not one remains!"
Dr. Becker, whose extensive experience entitles his opinion to deep respect, has recorded this caution, "Above all things avoid intemperance, which at Berlin, as every where else, has been found to render its votaries the first victims to this destructive pestilence." ”

“ The Edinburgh Board of Health says, "Experience has shown, that the most cssential precaution for cscaping the disease is sobriety; that intoxication during the prevalence of the epidemic is almost sure to be followed by an attack—and that those addicted to drink, are the most subject to Cholera, and the most likely to sink under it." The Journal of Humanity states, that "In Poland nine-tenths of those who died of Cholera were known to be brandy drinkers. ”

“ Rieehe informs us, that in China. "the disease selected its victims from among such of the people as live in filth and intemperance." Ramohun Fingee, the famous Indian doctor, says, that "people who did not take spirits or opium do not catch this disorder, even when they are with those who have it." In the army under the command of the Marquis of Hastings, in India, consisting of 18,000 men, more than 9000 died in the first twelve days. And every one knows that soldiers, and especially in warm climates, are notorious for habits of intemperance. ”

“ Without order, every social tie would be torn, asunder, every relation inverted, every government overturned, and thc whole assembly of human beings eonverted into a discordant mass. Without morality there would be no social order, so the material universe proclaims God's moral government, or that he will punish sin. ”

“ Were intemperance universal, it would soon exterminate the human family from off the earth; there are instances of some Indian tribes, and- even whole families in this country being rooted out by it.— While temperate men eontinue their present practises, the evil can never be brought to an end. No man is born a drunkard; the whole misehief originates from it being counted reputable and social to taste spirits; and while one and then another become the victims in sueeession, intemperance is perpetuated in our country. ”

“ The first ease of Cholera, in Dumfries, was a fcmalc of the name of Paterson, in English Street, on September 15. She died next day. Some persons in the neighbourhood were also seized. It rapidly increased; but, instead of lingering in the loeality where it showed itself, simultaneously appeared in various parts of Dumfries and Maxwelltown. People are slow to believe what they do not wish to be true; even at this advaneed stage of the disease, many denied that it was amongst us. Many now were in awful consternation, which prcdisposed them for the disease. ”

“ They conceive that no great harm is, done to society by a few insolated actions of the kind, if they are concealed from observation; but let such remember, that if it were right to violate this or any other laws of the Creator in one instance, it would be right for all mankind to do so continually. ”

“ Licentiousness may be counted another national sin, from its awful prevalence, and from its being tolerated in an organized form especially in our large towns. There is a lightness of speech on this subject which prevails among 'many who wish to be respectable. ”

“ In Paris the victims of the disease wcrc, with fcw exceptions, among the lower elasses all of whom drink intoxicating liquors to excess. In Montreal after 1200 had been attacked, a Montreal paper says, 'Not a drunkard who has been attacked has recovered of the disease, and almost all the victims have been at least moderate drinkers.'"
Dr. Thomas Sewall, of Washington eity, tells us, that "the epieure and the intemperate have no safety but in a speedy and thorough reformation. Wherever Cholera has prevailed, it has invariably sought out the glutton, the drunkard, and the. ”

“ Our limits will not allow us to mention Infidelity, Inattention to relative duties, Murder, Dishonesty, Falsehood, and Covetousness, all which are opposed to God's holy nature, and liable to his punishment ”

“ It has no temptations to plead in its behalf, and it is committed just because it is a sin. The man who can deliberately violate this command, proclaims to all around, that he has no emotions of reverence and affection towards that Almighty Being whose power upholds heaven and earth. ”

“ The following pages bring together some short memorials of the late awful visitation, from its first origin in India to the present time, particularly it ravages in our own town, from various authoritie not of easy access to the public.—Some may think that the less that is said on this subject the better, as bringing to our recollection gloomy days, and exciting the feelings of many who have been deprived of dear relatives.To such we would say, that we must not view the designs of Providence fulfilled merely on those who fell in the late calamity; the most important consequences are yet future ”

“ In the month of March, 1818, it broke out at Allahabad, and removed in a few months 10,000 persons; and proceeding still in a north-westerly direction, visited Cawnpore, Delhi, &c. In April and May following it reached the middle provinces of Hindostan. Lucknow and Fyzabad suffered greatly, and in Goruckpore 30,000 persons perished! It is calculated that in India the amazing number of twenty-millions have been removed into an eternal world by this awfully destructive scourge.
The Cholera prevailed at Madras in October, 1818. ”

“ Pleasure and money are not to be weighed against human life. And why should this spirit-trafic be entitled to peeuliar favour?"
The pestilenee likewise passed over to America, with awful malignity. A letter, dated 31st August, says, that in New York there were 3500 deaths, in a population of 200,000, one in fifty-seven. In Quebec, the deaths were 2000, population 33,000, one in fifty-seven. Montreal the deaths were 2000, population 25,000, one in twelve. In an alms house, in that eity, contains 1500 inmates, there were 300 deaths, one in five. ”