Mosaic Precautions

1910

No one can fail to be impressed by the careful hygienic precautions of the Mosaic period. For example, consider how animals were divided into the clean and the unclean, the reason for this being that the priests, in preparing them for sacrifice, noted the presence of parasites in the flesh or insides of certain animals which were therefore to be avoided.


Bits and Pieces

Some people treat the sermon as a table d'hote dinner, picking out the things that will not agree with them.

When the pulpit gets into poetic clouds it misses the man on the pavement.

A catalogue of vices never led any one into virtue.

Anaemia is often temporarily mistaken for virtue.

An ingrowing conscience drives many a man into sin.