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Relate its history –.

A pestilence has its uses in this
economy of Providence.

The world never has been free
from them for long periods &
never will be, till the race
is vastly improved in moral
character & consequent phys-
-ical energy.

Who that has ever perused
an account of the plagues of
the last 3000 years can even
think lightly of their mission –
or set as naught the God who