And I say openly, that those
who have escaped this time may not escape next. God has made
examples, and by no means always of the worst cottages. God's plan
is to take one and leave another by way of warning. "It is expedient
that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not" is a great and a sound law, and we must profit by it. So
let not those who have escaped the fever fancy that they must needs
be without fault. "Think ye that those sixteen on whom the tower of
Siloam fell and slew them, were sinners above all those that dwelt at
Jerusalem? I say unto you, Nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish."
And I say again, as I said last Sunday, that this is a spiritual
question, a Gospel sermon; for by your conduct in this matter will
your faith in the Gospel be proved. If you really believe that Jesus
Christ came down from heaven and sacrificed Himself for you, you will
be ready to sacrifice yourselves in this matter for those for whom He
died; to sacrifice, without stint, your thought, your time, your
money, and your labour. If you really believe that He is the sworn
enemy of all misery and disease, you will show yourselves too the
sworn enemies of everything that causes misery and disease, and work
together like men to put all pestilential filth and damp out of this
parish.
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