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, and are dangerous in the hands of the common people.

It is presumed that the publishers of such religious papers have not given this subject that attention and reflection which it deserves. They may not be aware that they are mingling falsehoods with religious truths; and giving the approbation of Christianity to a reprehensible business. Are they aware that such advertisements are regarded as moral defilements?—as leprous spots upon a surface otherwise pure and healthy? Or do they intend to disregard the highest medical authority, and be guided alone by pecuniary considerations? We know of some publishers who in former times incautiously admitted such advertisements into their columns, but who have been convinced of the impropriety of so doing, and have excluded them altogether; and it is to be hoped that every truly religious paper will follow the example.

The great mass of false and contradictory testimony in favor of the multitude of nostrums which are constantly offered to the public, tends to distract and unsettle the mind, lessen the