A diseased liver or heart or lung, a useless hand or foot, an ulcer or local obstruction, cannot exist without injury and impediment to the whole.

In the case of a malignant ulcer, how soon the blood gets poisoned! "Now, here is a malignant ulcer in the body politic of our city.

Is it possible, do you think, for it to exist, and in the virulent condition we find it, and not poison the blood of our whole community?
Moral and spiritual laws are as unvarying in their action, out of natural sight though they be, as physical laws.

Evil and good are as positive entities as fire, and destroy or consume as surely.

As certainly as an ulcer poisons with its malignant ichor this blood that visits every part of the body, so surely is this ulcer poisoning every part of our community.
Any one who reflects for a moment will see that it cannot be otherwise.
From this moral ulcer there flows out daily and nightly an ichor as destructive as that from a cancer.