HOPELESSNESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1900, Page 6

HOPELESSNESS.

'•THE DARKEST CLOUD HAS A

SILVER LINING."

When a man is really "down," whether from business misfortunes, bereavement; loss of social status through folly, or from the ravage of some disease for which he cannot find a remedy, he turns from the conventional, well-meant, cheering1 words of his friends, and treats such expressions as- "nil desperandum," "cheer up, old man," "never say die,'* etc., etc., etc., as a mockery, unless accompanied by some material assistance, or some sound and sensible advice. A true friend will always seek to discover the core of the mischief before giving- utterance to any such vague and meaning-less platitudes, and if lie can do so, will suggest some means of removing- the root of the trouble. A good chiropodist is not content to cut. a slice off a corn, he digs it up from the root as a gardener with the weeds. Mr C. IT. Miller, of King-street, Sydney, had given up all hope, but took the'sensible advice of a friend, and was cured. He writes, May 3rd, '99: "For the last five years I have suffered from bad back and' from the kidneys, having tried all the doctors in Sydney, a,nd ■■ dozens of different patent medicines, but found no relief. One day I was sitting quite tired of life, having tried so many different things, which all proved failures. One of my eld school mates came to see me, and he said. 'What, Charlie, no better? T?hj\ man, don't yoi\ fry Warner's Safe Cure? 1 I never troubled to answer him, for I had given up all hopes of :i (Mire. He th2n advised my wife to get n couple of bottles, and try it. A-ftfV using a few bottles I felt a new run!, 1 persevered with it, and am now as strong and healthy as I ever was."