The verdict was evidently right, but one cannot help asking
where "trust in the Lord" begins and ceases. These "peculiar people " evidently do not " trust to the Lord " for food, which Mr. Wagstaffe earns in the usual way as a wharf labourer. They take human means, apparently, for everything but the cure of sickness. A juryman on the coroner's jury asked them why they did not obey our Lord's suggestion of sending for a physician ; but when Mr. Wagstaffe promptly asked where it was, he was silenced. He referred, no doubt, to the saying, "They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick,"—a pretty clear intimation that our Lord did believe iu medical help. It is very curious, this lingering of the notion that disease proceeds more especially and directly from God's will than any other part of our involuntary life. We suppose it is the supernatural impres- sions connected with death, which extend themselves as it were along all the avenues which lead to it.
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