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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    ( 3» ) But this is nothing, when I clofe mine eyes, oh then I (hall be in Paradife, before the throne of my dear, dear Lord Jefus, and that will be foon, very foon / She then reached me her dying hand, and I went away rejoiced and ftrengthened in my mind, having firft with praifes and thankfgivings recommended her in my prayers to the care of the good fhepherd—me died two days after. A very young perfon, who had fuffered a great deal during the ihort time fhe had been married, lay fick with the fever but a few days, and mewed in that fituation, what me had mewed in many other circumftances, the greater! compofure ; when fhe was very low ihe alked, ' Is it not Friday to day? and being anfwered in the affirmative, (he replied with vifible joy of mind : Oh how good that is, then I Jhall die on the fume day, whereon ivy Saviour died for me ; and fhortly after ihe expired on ihat very day. It would be eafy to fill a whole book with an- ecdotes of the deceafed, if the extraordinary interruption and the great fatigue of going and riding backward and forward to the fick and dy- ing, had not rendered one at times, almofl totally thoughtlefs ; but thefe few instances will (how the reader how well prepared fome of the dying were, for their great change. [Inftances of frivolity in fome of thofe who were in health.] In general, more ferioufnefs, modefty, human- ity, and brotherly love was obferved among the in-