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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    ( 5° ) the two others we cannot fay this with fuch a tic- gree of certainty, the other eighteen could no*: have taken the infection in church, as they ac- cording to the teftimony of feveral of our mem- bers, (probably from fear) feldom or never at- tended in thole days. If time permitted us to enter into a more minute enquiry, we certainly mould find a different caufe of infection in the above-mentioned two perfons, than that of going to church. We add moreover, that the lift of our burials was kept with great accuracy ; whether the fame ftri£t attention has been obferved in other religious focieties, we do not pretend to fay; but this I hope we mail be permitted to fay ; that from feeing the dead carts and hearfes travelling up and down every ftreet daily, we mould have fuppofed the amount of the dead confiderably larger than what it has been publifhed. Perhaps there were not wanting fome, who looked upon this judgment as falling only upon the wicked, and were forry to find fo many people of this clafs in their congre- gations ; but we rather believe that the Lord makes no difference in his general judgments ; we believe that as fo many pious fouls have been called off, this mortality has proved a harveft for heaven. We could befides mention the names of feveral, belonging to another religious fociety, which pretended at a diftance, that none of their members had died j who have been buried in ou* grave-yards. [Comfort during thefe weeks of Mourning.] Difagreeable as it was to us to make this di- grefiion from the more pleafant path, wherein we