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 gazes stolidly at his rickety grandchildren. The marriage of unhealthy persons soon brings forth an offspring that bears the sickly taint of the parents, — sometimes even in- tensified. How often the physician listens to the mother's lament, who entreats that he may save the only remaining child: she has lost all, and this is her only hope! The physician looks at her and at her husband, and in his own mind exclaims, "No wonder!" Alas! this is too true. One-tenth of the human race die before they reach the age of three. Can this be the intention of the Creator? Can it be accident? What chance can a baby have to live through the scores of little disorders to which it is exposed during that tender age, when its very organization bears -the seed of scrofula or syphilis? Teething, summer-com- plaint, pneumonia, whooping-cough, catarrh, croup, that fill thousands of untimely graves with the innocents, are cursed by desolate mothers, who, had they or their parents known better, might have avoided a union that compels them now to immolate the life of their children upon the altar of ancient vice. Teething, indeed! How can the lit- tle ones who bear marks of the dissoluteness of their fore- fathers live through any accidental physical irritation? Every day, the knell vibrates the sound of the funeral- march of some one too young, too lovely, for the grave; and 3'-et the marriages that spread destructive elements of dis- ease are celebrated every day, and blessed on the altar of the Almighty!

How often do you hear of tubercles in our day! When a physician declares a lovely girl to have tubercles on her lungs, the mother's heart is stricken to despair; for she knows that affliction and desolation must follow.

O foolish parents! You carefully inquire into the family status, the social pedigree, and financial condition of the