A sermon, preached in the Cathedral, Manchester, on Sunday morning, April 30th, 1854 / by the Rev. Charles Richson ... with notes by John Sutherland of the General Board of Health, London.

  • Richson, Charles.
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1854
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Credit: A sermon, preached in the Cathedral, Manchester, on Sunday morning, April 30th, 1854 / by the Rev. Charles Richson ... with notes by John Sutherland of the General Board of Health, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And to the absolute rule, that “ if a man at all take his neighbour’s raiment to pledge, he shall, in any case, deliver it to him when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his raiment” (Ex. xxii. 26; Deut. xxiv. 13). VIII. The physical exhaustion of the people, as the result of poverty or even punishment, was carefully guarded against; Witness the provisions that the Hebrew who had been in servitude should not be allowed to 44 go away empty” (Deut. xv. 12 to 17); That gleanings should be left for 44 the stranger, the fatherless and the widow” (Deut. xxiv. 19 to 22) ; That every seven years 44 the creditor” should make a release ; and that due assistance should not be w7ith-holden from a poor man, because the year of release might be at hand (Deut. xv. 1 to 11); and that every fiftieth year there should be a jubilee, when every man should return to his own pro¬ fession (Lev. xxv. 10, tyc.); That the wages of a hired servant should not be kept from him until the morning (Lev. xix. 13; Deut. xxiv. 15) ; That trees, whose fruits were available for human food, might not be destroyed even in a siege (Deut. xx. 19, 20) ; That mill-stones were not allowed to be taken in pledge (Deut. xxiv. 6); And that punishment by stripes should be limited to forty, lest their 44 brother should seem vile” unto them (Deut. xxv. 3). washing a stained fabric the stain could be washed out, the opera¬ tion was to be repeated a second time, after which the article was pronounced clean and fit for use. It is hardly necessary to add, that the washing and burning of foul apparel and household linen is a common precaution in the present day against epidemic diseases, but as usual it is done after the disease has appeared, and not before, as was the case under the Jewish law.