The cholera and its consequences : an address, occasioned by the death of Miss ___, who was suddenly removed by the prevalent epidemic, on Sept. 2, 1832.

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1832
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Credit: The cholera and its consequences : an address, occasioned by the death of Miss ___, who was suddenly removed by the prevalent epidemic, on Sept. 2, 1832. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and slept, they awoke, because Ciod caused them to dwell in safety.” “ No evil has befallen them, nor has any plague come nigh their dwelling.” From the thief and the murderer, from the devouring flame and the wasting pestilence, they have sustained no injury. They unite in domestic worship, giving thanks unto the God of their life ; they commend and commit each other to his pro- vidential protection ; and they enter upon the duties which he has made theirs, with those feelings of cheerfulness and security, which it is natural to indulge from the mercies of God having been so long enjoyed, and so often repeated. Thus the day opens, and thus it advances ; hour succeeds to hour, duty to duty, and enjoyment to enjoyment. Every thing presents the same ap- pearance which it presented yesterday—which has become so familiar as to be naturally expected, and is almost imagined to be incapable of change. There is nothing to excite suspicion that the day will in any circumstance be distinguished from others,—as to its being the last which some of them are ever to see, the thought never occurs— or occurs to be dismissed—dismissed, with the