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179 We are to preserve the lives of our fellow men by doing nothing that tends to injure their health, or their peace, or worldly estate, and by pursuing such friendly and benevolent means as tend to guard and defend them from injuries and wrong?; administer.g of comfort to the afflicted - clothing to the naked - food to the famishing, nourishment and medicine to the sick and help to the helpless, of all ages and conditions. The duty of preserv.g the life of others appears from several considerations as 1 man is made for society. It is not good for man to be alone. If it was lawful for one one man to take the life of another for any or every cause, a general and universal massacre would take place, for the right of one so to do would be the right of all: and the world would be a slaughter house of desolation, an accldmna?, a field of blood, a golgotha a place of skulls. It is evident that mankind being placed together on the earth, are intended by their creator to be mutually helpful and beneficial to each other. We therefore find that we are mutually dependent on each other; help and society for our comfortable existance here, against the many accidents and evils of life. The helpless infant or the parent the sick, the decripid and aged on those who have health and ability to relieve them. We are not only mutually dependent for our security and comfort as to our animal life, but are dependent on each other under providence, for that council, light and direction that are necessary for the good and happyness of our spiritual Na