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sent them forth on their dread-
-ful errand!

Undoubtedly a pestilence is
designed to remove the debased
the infected, the corrupted – the
debauched, the viliated [violated] portions
of the race – to prevent the
taint & contagion of sin from
poisoning the body of mankind.

Yet its uses are mainly of
a moral nature –

1 To make real to every man –
however blind – the fact that
God is Supreme & Sovereign.