3rd. A third great defence against the Cholera is _not to be afraid of it_. Whether it is in the air, or whether it may be caught from other people, fear in either case makes us especially apt to take it. Every one knows how seldom Doctors take any disorder from the sick persons whom they visit, and the great reason of this is, because they are not afraid: they are used to be in the way of sickness, and therefore it does not so much alarm them. To be cheerful and active therefore, to go about our common business and our common amusements, and to think as little about the Cholera as possible, would be very great means of keeping us safe from it. But you will say that a man cannot be cheerful with the fear of death before his eyes, that it will weigh upon his spirits, in spite of all he can do to shake it off. Fear indeed is hard to be reasoned with, and the fear of death is hardest of all; but though it may not be reasoned with it can be prayed against. True it is that the chance of taking the Cholera _is_ a very fearful thing, if we are not fit to die: the prospect of a sudden and painful disease carrying us off in twenty-four hours, _is_ a very terrible one, if death is without hope to us. But what if fear be taken usefully, and make us set about obtaining that which will make us justly bold? What if the thought of this new disorder, which kills those whom it does kill in so very short a time, should lead us to think seriously of death, and why it is that we fear it? What if it should make us see clearly what is the STING OF DEATH, and labour and pray earnestly to be delivered from it? What if it should lead us to seek the Lord while he may be found, to turn to HIM in all sincerity, who died and rose again for us, that we might not fear to die, because our Hope is to rise as HE is risen? Truly, if the fear of the Cholera leads us to seek this only real way of not being afraid of it, it will be both to our bodies and our souls not so much a curse as a blessing. My object in writing this has been merely to give some information to those who do not see much of books or newspapers. Of course those who do, know already just as much about the Cholera, and very likely much more than I do. And further for those persons who if they read a newspaper do not keep it by them, I have thought it right to reprint the Directions published by Sir Henry Halford, the President of the London Board of Health, and circulated with his authority in London. AN INHABITANT OF RUGBY. NOVEMBER 11TH. _Advice to Families for the prevention and cure of this dreadful malady_. (As extracted from the _London Gazette_ the 20th Oct., 1831.)