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156 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL;
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may be told _tliese thing's are costly , but we rnay safely answer that is it is nothing disease economical that is expensive but justice and it and is health mercy that towards is cheap all interest . There s
temporal and spiritual , of all the human race . I have also heard , it said that we ought to trust a great deal more to spiritual
appliances , and that we ought not to think so much of the perishable body . My answer to that is , that spiritual appliances , in the
state of things to which I allude , are _altogether impossible . Make every effort , push them forward , never desistlose no moment ;
, but depend upon it that in such a state of thing's . you will in the end be utterly baffled . But when people say we should think more
of the soul and less of the body , my answer is , that the same God which made the soul also made the body . It is an inferior work
perhaps , but nevertheless His work , and it must be treated and cared for according * to the end for which it -was created—fitness for
His service . I maintain that God is worshipped not only by spiritualbut by material " things . You find in the Psalms—" Praise
, Him sun and moon , praise Him all ye stars of light . " If St . Paul , calling our bodies the temples of the Holy Ghost , said we ought
not to be contaminated by sin , we also say that our bodies , the temple of the Holy Ghost , ought not to be corrupted by preventible
disease , ought not to be degraded by filth when it can be avoided , and ought not to be disabled by _imnecessary suffering . Therefore ,
all that society can do it ought to do , to give every man full , fair , and free opportunity to exercise his moral , intellectual , physical ,
and spiritual energies , so that every one may be able to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him . "
Among * the other papers read in the Department of Public Health was one contributed by the Rev . C . Kingsley , on the Effect of an
Elective System on Sanitary Improvement , which argued the bad effects of leaving sanitary reform to the small householders of each
locality , who were generally interested in preserving * the statu quo . Mr . Kingsley advocated a system of local inspection under
government sanitary inspectors ; but in the discussion which succeeded , taining the general 1 of the op result inion went aimed against at hy the such niore interference general diffusion , and for of the sound
obsanitary knowledge . Two papers were contributed by Miss Florence Nightingale , and
read by Dr . Holland—one on the Health , the other on the Construction of Hospitals . The second paper was replete with valuable
practical _suggestions , but so far as its details were concerned they were intended more as a guidance to professional and civil
authorities than to be interesting * to the general public . We quote the following abstract of the first paper on the Health of Hospitals .
" After some general prefatory observations , the writer stated that many years' experience of hospitals in all countries and
climates , even admitting to the full extent the great value of the
hospital improvement in recent years , had led her to the conclusion
156 The Meetings At Liverpool;
156 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/12/
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