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Rh and alleys, and bubbles up in crime, madness, and eccentricity all over your land. This it is which makes your atheist on the one hand, your bigot on the other. This it is which feeds the flame of folly everywhere all over the earth, placed Simon on his pillar, sent the world on crusades, lights the Suttee:—nay, why travel eastward! which here, in this our own land, gave disciples to Johanna Southcote, creates Mormons,—peoples Agapemone, begets holy jackets and bleeding pictures,—and confounds God's reasonable heritage with crime—guilt—lust—passion—disease—distress—lunacy—folly—idoey."—P. 39 of Mr. Everest's Sermon.

Mr. Everest proceeds to say, "Irreligion is the daughter of internal disorder, but the old system of medicine was of no use or value as an aid to conversions." "The homœopathic treatment," he says, "will eradicate that prime cause of irreligion, and then the holy and saving truths of the Gospel will be admitted into the heart, and never fail to influence the life." He appeals to the "fathers and mothers," "the religious body of this land [England], and the governors of God's heritage, monarchs, parliaments, and