train passed over his sacrifices, and they But it is really less succeeded in dragging her away, but it was at the expense of his own life. The engine threw him down, and the whole body. God marks such shall not go unrewarded. difficult to do such deeds as these, than it is to carry out day by day, in face of all obstacles and all temptations, the duty of loving our neighbour. It is hard to break through old habits. To those who have kept at a distance from their neighbours, it will be hard at first to change their manners, and to become kind and helpful to them. But the path of right-doing, like that of wrong-doing, becomes easier as we advance along it; it is strait and narrow; there must be no wandering to the right hand or to the left, but as we become more used to it, we shall find that it is a path of pleasantness and way of peace. If Our duty towards our neighbour and our duty towards God are not, however, entirely separate duties, for in serving our neighbour we also serve God, and through loving our neighbour we learn to love God the better. we look upon our neighbours as brethren, members of one family with us, our hearts will naturally be lifted up to Him who is the Head of His Church, and we shall rejoice, not only in the Father's love for us individually, but also in the thought that His love embraces all our brethren. For, to use the words of St. John, "He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also 7" 7 1 John iv. 20, 21. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE; SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORIES: 77, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, LONDON. TRACTS ON PRACTICAL SUBJECTS, ADDRESSED TO THE WORKING CLASSES. No. VII. CLEANLINESS: "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"-1 COR. vi. 19. I SUPPOSE there are few persons who will deny that it is a more respectable as well as a more comfortable condition to be clean and welldressed than to be unwashed and slovenly. That person naturally commands more respect who by his outward appearance shows that he respects himself, that he considers it a matter of consequence to preserve clean and orderly habits. Few, however, reflect, or even know, how close the connexion is between the condition of the body as regards cleanliness, and the health and soundness of the frame. I will not say that want of cleanliness is the most efficient agent in the production of disease, because there are other agents, such as want of pure air, bad or insufficient food, excessive eating or drinking, exposure to damp A and cold, all which number their thousands of victims; but it is well known, and cannot be too often impressed upon us, that many fearful evils, many epidemics which ravage our streets, might be averted by a due regard to cleanliness. Our sins in this respect lie so much at our own door, and may so easily be reformed, that I have chosen the subject for our consideration, in the hope that we may all be led to greater attention to this part of our duty. The laws of God are all good and beneficent, and, if regarded, cannot fail to bring in their train health and well-being; but, by a wise decree, the violation of these laws generally brings a direct penalty in this life. Scourges of some kind follow guilt in sure and often in rapid progression. Filth engenders fevers, vermin, and skin diseases. Intemperance undermines the health, wastes the energies, and, if persisted in, often brings the terrors of delirium tremens. All excess, as well as all neglect, has its appropriate penalty. And in many cases it happens that not only the offender suffers but many innocent beings share the punishment. The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, for these inherit the weakened and sickly constitution which is the result of the parents' intemperance or neglect of the laws of health. Now I do not mean to say that obedience |