If a person be struck with lightning, throw pailfuls of cold water on the head and body, and apply mustard poultices on the stomach, with friction of the whole body and inflation of the lungs, as in the case of drowning. The same mode is to be used when persons are stupefied by fumes of coal or bad air. In thunder-storms, shut the doors and windows. The safest part of a room is its centre; and when there is a feather-bed in the apartment, that will be found the most secure resting-place. A lightning-rod, if it be well pointed, and run deep into the earth, is a certain protection to a circle around it whose diameter equals the height of the rod above the highest chimney. But it protects _no farther_ than this extent. In case of fire, wrap about you a blanket, a shawl, a piece of carpet, or any other woolen cloth, to serve as protection. Never read in bed, lest you fall asleep, and the bed be set on fire. If your clothes get on fire, never run, but lie down, and roll about till you can reach a bed or carpet to wrap yourself in, and thus put out the fire. Keep young children in woolen dresses, to save them from the risk of fire. CHAPTER XXV. ON THE RIGHT USE OF TIME AND PROPERTY. It is probable that there is no one direction in which conscientious persons suffer so much doubt and perplexity as on the right apportionment of time and property. Clear views of duty on this subject can be gained only by reference to certain facts and principles of mind in connection with certain facts revealed by Jesus Christ. It is a fact that whenever men notice any method which will _best_ secure any end aimed at, they call it _right_. And so the word _right_, as men ordinarily use the term, signifies the method or rule for securing an end designed. It is also a fact that all rational minds are so made as intuitively to feel or perceive that the end for which all things are made is, _not_ to produce enjoyment or happiness of any sort or degree, but to produce the _best_ good for all concerned both as to quality and amount. In proof of this, we find that when any plan or action is proposed, and it is shown that on one alternative the _best_ good of both the individual and society is secured, all rational minds decide that it is wise and right, and that the opposite alternative is foolish and wrong. There are endless diversities of opinion as to what _is_ for the best good of individuals and society; but all agree that whatever is for the _best_ good of all concerned is _right_. We therefore assume that it is an intuitive principle or belief in all rational minds, that _happiness-making on the best and largest scale is the end or purpose for which all things are made_.