The beacon, or, A warning to young and old : in which is shown, in the medical practice of the author, how body and mind are destroyed by evil habits, resulting in epilepsy, consumption, idiocy, and insanity / by William M. Cornell.

  • Cornell, William Mason, 1802-1895.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The beacon, or, A warning to young and old : in which is shown, in the medical practice of the author, how body and mind are destroyed by evil habits, resulting in epilepsy, consumption, idiocy, and insanity / by William M. Cornell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frequently called upon to open with prayer the meetings of a Moral Eeform Association, consisting principally of the wives and mothers of my congregation,—devout and excellent women,—who desired to know and perform their duty, in the best manner, to their own children and families in this, as in every other department of Christian nur- ture and activity. I felt the need of divine knowledge and assistance, in order to answer appropriately the questions which they pro- posed to me as their spiritual teacher and guide. I was soon called to preach a course of sermons on the Decalogue, and shall never forget the peculiar solicitude with which I approached the seventh commandment. I could not, dared not omit it, being, as it is, an essential part of the moral law which I had been ordained to preach. As one of the ten commandments given by God to Moses on Sinai, not for the Jews alone, but for his people of every age, clime and nation, I was not at liberty to consider it, as some do a few other passages pertaining to the same sub- ject, of private interpretation, designed only for solitary reading and instruction.