A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / by J. Henry C. Helmuth, Minister of the Lutheran congregation ; translated from the German by Charles Erdmann ; copy right secured according to law.

  • Justus Christian Henry Helmuth
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MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / by J. Henry C. Helmuth, Minister of the Lutheran congregation ; translated from the German by Charles Erdmann ; copy right secured according to law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All the advice that can be given to you, in your prefent mournful fituation, is contained in thefe few words ; Return unto the Lord ! acknowledge with contrition that you have neglected your poor children—confider the dreadful indifference for the religion of Chrift, which has prevailed in your family; your neglect of prayer—but alas 1 where mall one begin and where end the catalogue of all that has been deficient in this refpect in moft families! remember, at the fame time, the dying groans—the laft agonies of the departing fpirit—the lonely melancholy funeral of your de- ceased fon or daughter; to thefe reflections add the queftion, have not I perhaps neglected my child ? Was not I perhaps the caufe that it died fo com^ fortlefs, as was to all appearance the cafe ? and if this consideration will not induce you, to look with horror on your dangerous condition, and to long for being converted to Jefus Chrift—then no- thing—nothing can move you ; you are hardened, hardened beyond conception—and the deepeft abyfs of hell is juilly your due. £The diforder was contagious.]] The moft dreadful circumftance in this terrible difeafe was that few, very few^ who approached any perfon afflicted with it, could efcape the in- fection ; and that all thofe, who were infected, could generally trace the place where they had taken the feeds of the difeafe. In fome, this deadly poifon mewed its effects immediately; in others, by flower degrees. I have known inftances, ofperfons, to appearance hearty v
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