Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2393, 5 April 1893, Page 4

Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

♦ *' The cause of earthquakes," said John Wesley, "is sio." How he reasoned it out is not easy for the average sinner to see. The idea of such a tremendous physical convulsion as an earthquake resulting from the violation of moral law is nonsence in the eye 3of modern science. The revrse is mote often true. "Tie cause of a deil of sin,'" said Hannah. More. '• is Taile." That we can see through. Bile poisons the brain, and the brain is the organ of the mind. It is certain that all tlie earthduakes thai ever shook this wicked world never did half the damage that is done every year by sleepy stomachs and lazy livers. Generals have lost battles, statesmen have been beaten in diplomacy, workmen have been thrown out of jobs, clergymen have preached poor sermons, and husbands and wives have duarrelled for no reason under the sun but a " touch of liver complaint. 1 ' The crust of society can never lie quiet with such a force as biliousness under it. This is not a runaway metaphor ; it is hard, cold fact and the man who doesn't know it has never tried to do business with, another man when the second man's skin looked yellow, or asked a loan from a friend when that friend was labouring under a sharp indigestion. Writing of a time six years ago a lady says her skin became yellow and then of a saffoon hue. Her breathing was difficult and short, and she felt much pain in the chest and sides. Her appetite failed, of course, for Nature pever calls f o food when 9 he is not iv condition to use it. Still a trifle of sustenance must be taken. The lady took it, digested a bit of it, and suffered great .distress from the pr«spnce of the rest in the torpid stomach. We scarcely need say that hsr sleep was broken", and miod and body weary, weak, and out of tone. Now what sort of life is this to lead ? What is anybody good for while in such, a state as that? What wages would you give a servant -who was always so? What would you wager on your own success in business if you had to pit yourself against other peoples sharpness' while you had to fight with a poisoh-soaked head and a stomach that refused its breakfast? Not a crooked sixpence. Our correspondent continups : "At last I took to my bed. The doctor eaid my liver was wrong ; that I had the jaundice. As his medicine did no good, he advised me to go to the hospital. I objected to thi?, ' Try a change of air, then, and see what that will do for you.' So I went to my old tome in Pairford, Gloucestershire. This did no good, and I consulted another physician, who attended me for some time, but failed to help me. My friends now thought I was in a decline. " I didn't eat enough to feed a bird, and began to despair. Gradually growing more feeble and miserable, with no expectation of better days, I lingered on until July, 1890, when an acquaintance urged me to try Mother Seigel's Syrup. The confidence my friend seemed to have in this medicine made such an impression on me that I sent my neice four miles to get it. After taking the first bottle I felt better. A weight appeared to be lifted from my , chest, and I begun to relish my food, and felt better in every way. I will conclude by sayiDg that when I had used two qottles more I returned to Birmingham duite well, and have had no attack of ihe kisease since. lam oaly sorry I did not I Snow o£ the Syrup years before. (Signed Sarah Hawkes, of the Lion Inn, Longmore Street, Birmingham." Here is certainly a lesson for the day. Probably there is not one persor iv a thousand who has not snffered from what ' is called a "bilious attack." ard many are more or less bilious all the time. The symptoms are these : Furred tongue, headache, dulness, and sleepiness, yellow eyes and skin, spells of dizziness, hot hands and cold feet, bad ta«te in the mouth, loss of appetite, broken sleep, nervouoness, loss of inclination to exertion or work, low spirits, irritable temper, the gulping of a nauseating wind or gas, distress after eating, and wandering pains all over the body. These things signify liver complaint ; and the cause is indigestion and dyspepsia. If long neglected there are plenty of worse consequences to follow. The success of ► Seigel's Syiup in curing this malady is due to the fact that it poes straight as an arrow to the very root and source of it, the j paralysed digestion. Whatever may be the true theory of earthquakes we may be Rure of one thing, anyway— namely, that bile in the blood, arising from an arrest of the digestive functson, is the hotbed of more sorrow, pain, and death than all the powers at the interior of the earth ever scattered over its surface.

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