Letter Box.

Enfield, Conn. 1884.

There are no two sects or denominations who stand upon the same level of faith. And no two, seemingly, of the same faith have the same opinion, thus

ety is the spice of life," and I think well it is so, for without these different views life would become a monotonous panorama tedious to bear.

While our opinions of the non essentials vary let us be a unit on the principles.

DEAR CHILDREN ;-"Let not sin reign in bringing into use the old adage, “Variyour mortal bodies.' Sin brings death the inevitable consequences. Sin is often not half subdued when you think it entirely so. Don't parley with sin. "Give the adversary an inch, and he will take a mile." Yield to one of his wishes, and you may yield to all. "If you do not wish to travel to the end of the "broad road," shun it entirely. Once on the way, it is hard to stop. " Be wise in time. Deny the first temptation, and you can Customs are ever changing and the more easily resist subsequent ones. "Noth-old must give place to the new; but let ing torments like sin." One sin leads to two, the principles remain firm as the mountwo lead to three, and so on, until they are tain rock. past counting. One sin, if not erased, will deprive you of real happiness. No sins are

small.

"Without faith it is impossible to Sins that seem small, are monsters, please God, for he that cometh to Him that deceive and destroy. must believe that He is a rewarder of them that dilligently serve Him." Ayer, Mass.

Living in sin, blights the soul. Break from sinful habits now. Sin promises joys, but pays sorrows. Remember this truth. Sin grows fast. Subdue it thoroughly, or it will make bad work. It don't pay to sow "tares.' "Sin don't make saints." It is dangerous to commence a life of sin. "Gird on the heavenly armor," and keep it on.

War against sinful proclivities, with ceaseless vigilance. Fighting the rank weeds of vice, is time well spent. "How low sin plunges its slaves!" Give up sin, or give up hope of heaven. Your Brother,

Daniel Orcutt.

FAITH.

FRANCES DEMPSEY.

FAITH is a virtue which most if not all of mankind possess in some degree. While the savage whose faith is strong in revenge to his enemies, the Christian faith, leads its advocates by the tenets of Jesus, to forgive their enemies. It says, "Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you and pray for them that persecute you."

THE MANIFESTO.

JULY, 1884.

NOTES.

ed for their ability in rhetoric rather than for their goodness of heart. Every class of Christians preach and pray and it is one of the wonder working features of the religious world that so many shades of belief can be held forth, and these often becoming quite antagonistic, while at the same time they all claim to accept one book, a work of divine inspiration, from which they make their scholastic recitations.

With this system of multiplied forms. and ceremonies, it cannot be thought strange that even the Christian world has been called a babel, a confusion of tongues.

PREACHING and practicing are so very different from each other that it has become one of the wonders of the present day to find them conjoined. We have no end of religious speculations, brought out by the multiplied shades of biblical reading and then by the thousands of additional explanations. In our astute wisdom we have felt warranted in casting a sneer and even in indulging in a laugh at the expense of a class we call heathen, because of their long list of The simplicity with which Jesus pergods that preside over the public and pri- formed his ministrations, and the direct vate affairs of a semi-civilized nation. application of all his words to the daily However, as laughing, is not, as a life of the individual, establishes a foungeneral thing, followed by any disaster-dation for righteousness upon which evous results the heathen can quietly wor-ery one may build with confidence. This ship as they may think best.

Just now it may be well to confine our remarks to those who are denominated Christians and let the class who make no profession of religion as well as those whom we call anti-christians, rest till another time. A Christian, Webster says;-is "One who professes to believe in the religion of Christ; especially one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ."

makes Christianity a work of the heart, the conforming of the inward and outward life to the doctrines of Christ and establishes it as the essential part of a Christian's duty.

But as men are not usually paid a salary for the manifestation of their piety, the practical life of Christianity is allowed to become rusty and moth caten, rendering it more or less unfit for presentation. Those who make a close comparison between the life of the Teacher and that of his disciples, at the present date, think it a subject of mirth, or of surprise as so little is found in the last that harmonizes with the first. To make, the preaching, however, of the first consequence, a cloak of excuses has But as preaching has become an oc-been used to good advantage, and Chriscupation through which one is expected tians like Free-thinkers and Infidels are to earn his daily bread, it is largely a not expected to walk uprightly, for the matter of the brain, and men are award- Scripture has expressly stated in speak

This is a very clear and very acceptable definition of the term, and if made practical would insure a Kingdom of God upon the earth. It would afford the hundred fold of all earthly blessings and give us an assurance of the promise of Eternal Life.

mand.

The moral quality, which makes man regard his brother man with more or less consideration comes through his civilization and education. As good as this may be it is not the spirituality that is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Moses in his wilderness journey permitted his people to demand an eye for It was an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. not a matter of retaliation, springing from a spirit of revenge, but rather a punishment inflicted to correspond to the transgression. While Jesus commended this course for those who believed in Moses, he at the same time said, that if they would be his disciples they must pray for those who were their persecutors. They must seek for the Kingdom of God and its righteousness.

In this they had the promise of abundant treasures in earthly wealth, and the

Sanitary,

KEEPING THE TEETH CLEAN.

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THERE are many individuals who habitually brush their teeth, and some even declare that they perform this duty twice, thrice, or four times daily, yet cannot keep their teeth from becoming stained or covered with “tar

tar.

Who has not witnessed cases where the

teeth, after having received a most thorough cleansing by the dentist, have within a few

months after, been again covered with accumulations as repulsive to the eye as if they had never been cleansed? And yet when expressions of surprise follow such discoveries, assurance is given that the tooth-brush is regularly used!

"Why can not I keep my teeth free from 'tartar'?" is a question frequently asked by "It is not from lack discouraged patients. of brushing," they say. To express a doubt as to thoroughness on their part is a delicate thing to do, yet proofs are sometimes painfully apparent to warrant such a doubt. Undoubtedly many individuals imagine they are particular in this respect when they are not.

The fact is, very few persons know how to properly manipulate a brush; nor do they know what sort of brush to select. Scarcely one in ten of the brushes manufactured

The

are fit for use, and this statement is no exaggeration. Many are too large and unwieldy to be successfully managed, and would be suitable for "nail-brushing." majority of them are also too compact; some too rigid and not sufficiently pliable to be useful, while others are too soft and little better than rags. The brush for service should never be broader than the medium sizes usually sold, nor over two thirds their length. The bristles should be elastic and their ends trimmed in serrations, or "notched”—this form being best adapted to the shape of the

additional assurance of Eternal Life
With him the preaching and practice
more
To do right was
were in divine unison.
the righteousness of God. In this work
the disciples were carried above the
pleasures of time and sense and under
the inspiration of the divine spirit be-
came the beautiful lights of Christianity
and able to publish the good news and
glad tidings. For this, Jesus was well
pleased to compare them to a city, built
so high upon the bill that it could not
possibly be hid from view. They had
become a light to the world, and this is
what Christianity should be at the pres-
ent time.

teeth.

In use, the brush should be pressed firmly against the teeth, commencing with the back ones at their cervical borders, and with a semi rotary motion slowly brought forward and toward their grinding edges in such a

manner as to force from between them accumulations that have found lodgment there; also allowing the bristles to come in contact with all enamel surfaces possible to reach. Rapid horizontal dashes should be avoided. A brush furiously driven across the teeth touches only points of enamel that least require rubbing, leaving the accumulations that load their interstices undisturbed and nmolested.

scenes of the battle-field to be enacted in our name.

The difficulty which usually confronts us in the attempt to raise a reasonable discussion on the subject of food is the repugnance evinced by the carnivorous towards any description in plain language of the things that they are not ashamed to do daily. They unanimously agree to ignore the brutality of their proceedings, and are indignant at public attention being drawn to the revolting facts. It is not generally supposed to be an easy task to take away a bone from a dog; when, therefore, we propose to take not only the bones, but also the flesh and the blood, from a large class who are in the habit of putting such things into their mouths, we cannot be surprised that they should be indignant at the insolence of the attempt.-The Dietetic Reformer.

It is not the frequency of brushing that best preserves the teeth, but the degree of thoroughness with which it is done. The time for performing this duty most effectively is just before retiring for the night. During the twelve hours interval from the evening meal to the morning repast, particles of food retained about the teeth, and subjected to the warm, humid condition of the oral cavity, cannot fail to become decomposed or fermented, thus breeding an insidious foe that, night after night, besieges the enamel walls which, unless of extraordinary compact- ABERNETHY ON CORRECT LIVING VS. DRUGS. ness, will sooner or later give way to its destructive forces.

There is no objection to cleansing the teeth when making the morning toilet, yet if thoroughly cared for the night before, they require comparatively little of such attention in the early part of the day. To brush them more frequently than this is a needless task. -DR. C. E. FRANCIS, in The Independent Practitioner.

An improved diet brings in its train improved health, improved tone of mind, improved morals. The angry passions lose their vio. lence. Men become reasonable creatures. Insanity, now unhappily on the increase, would become a thing of the past. With the tranquilizing of the passions we lose the chief incentives to war and murder of every kind. When comes the promised time when war shall be no more?" as shouting congregations energetically enquire with undoubted zeal, but with extremely little prospect of a satisfactory answer. If we were not brutalized and debased from our youth up with the accustomed sight of torn limbs and bleeding corpses displayed for our admiration in every street, we should hardly bring ourselves to contemplate the possibility of allowing the

THE Medical Record reproduces an extract from the biography of the late General Dix, by his son, Morgan Dix, in which is given an account of an interview with Abernethy, whom the General had consulted for professional advice. It is gratifying to note that the common sense advice of the illustrious physician was taken in a common sense way by the distinguished patient, and that the result was a ripe and robust old age, (80 years,) of which the dyspeptic youth of the General scarcely gave promise.

After hearing a few words of his patient's story, Abernethy cut him short as follows: "Sir, you are pretty far gone, and the wonder is you are not gone entirely. If you had Consulted common sense instead of the medical faculty, you would probably have been well years ago. I can say nothing to you excepting this: You must take regular exercise as much as you can bear without fatigue, as kind, and this only when absolutely necessary, little medicine as possible, of the simplest and a modest quantity of plain food, of the quality which you find by experience best to agree with you. No man, not even a physistomach is a stomach;' and it is impossible cian, can prescribe diet for another. A for any one to reason with safety from his own to that of any other person. There man of are a few general rules which any this: That rich food, high seasoning, etc., common sense may learn in a week, such as are injurious. I can say no more to you, sir; you must go and cure yourself."