Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 6 April 1893, Page 4

Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

'' The cause of earthquakes," said John Wesley, "is sin."

How he reasoned it out, is not easy for the aveiage sinner to pee. The idea of such a tremendous physical convulsion as an earthquake resulting from the violation of moral law is nonsence. in the eyes of modern science. The revrse is more often true. "The cause of a deil of sin," said Hannah More. '• is bile." That we can see through. Bile poisons the brain, and the brain is the organ of the mind. It is certain that all the earthduakes tha 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." 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 tne second man's skin looked yellow, or aefred a Joan 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 soffoon hue. Her breathing was difficult and Bhort, and she felt mnch pain in the chest and sides. Hei appetite failed, of course, for Nature never calls fo food when phe is not in 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 presence of the rest in the torpid stomach. We scarcely need say that h^r sleep was broken, and mind 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 ? Nc t t a crooked sixpence.

Our correspondent continues: "At last I took to my bod. The doctor said 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 Fairford, Gloucestershire. This did go 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 acquaintaace 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 battle I felt better. A. weight appeared to be lifted from my chest, and I began to relish my food, and felt better in every way. I will conclude by saying that when I had used two qottles more I returned to Birmingham duite well, and have had no cttack of the kisease since. lam only sorry I did not Snow of the Syrup years bef6re. (Signed Sabah Hawkes, of the Lion Inn, Longmore Street, Birmingham."

Here is certainly a lesson for the day. Probably there is not one persor in a thousand who has not snffered from what is called a " bilious attack/ and 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, nervousness, loss of inclination to exertion or work, low spirits, irritable temper, the gulping of a nauseating wind or £as, distress after eriting. and wandering pains all over the body. These thin -s signify liver complaint ; and the cause is indigestion and dyspepsia. If long neglected there are plenty of worse consequences t^> follow. The success of Seigel'B Syiup io curing this malady is due to the facr, that it foes straight as an arrow to the very root and source of it, the paralysed digestion. Whatever may be the true theory of earthquakes we may be sure of one thing, anyway— namely, that bile in the blood, arising from an arrest of the digebtive 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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