Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2397, 8 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 a3 an earthquake resulting from the violation of moral law iB nonsencp in the eye 3of modern science. The revrsa is more often true. "The cause of a de«l of sin/ saii 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 eatthduakea tha' evec \ shook this wicked world never did half the damage that is done every year by sleepy stomachs and lazy liver?. Generals have lost battles, statesmen have been beaten in diplomacy, workmen have beeu 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 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 abort, and Bhe felt much pain in the cbest and sides. Hex appetite failed, of course, for Nature never calls fo food when ?he is not in condition to use it. Still a trifle of sustenance must be taken. The lady took it, digested a bit of it, aDd suffered great distress from the presence of the rest in the torpid etomach. We scarcely need say that har 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 soP 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 Btomach that refused its breakfast ? Not a crooked sixpence.

Our correspondent continues : "At last I took to my bed. 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 this, ' Try a change of air, then, and see what that will do for you.' So I went to my old tome in Fauford, Gloucestershire. This did no good, and I consulted another physician, who attended me for some time, but failed to helij me. My friends now thought I was in a "Uecline. " I didn't eat enou*h to feed a bird, and began to despair, if Gradually growing more feebleand miserable, with ro expectation of better dayjß I lingered on until July, 1890, when anra,cquaintaac9 urged me to try Mother Seif el's Syrup. The confidence my friend feemed to have in this medicine made sum an impression on me that I sent inyWjpe four miles to get it. After taking thA first bjttle 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 hai used two qottles more I returned to Birmingham duite well, and have had no '.ttack of the kiseaee si&ee. lam ojJy sorry I did not Snow of the Syrup years before. (Signed Sarah Hatvkes, of the Lion Inn, Longmore Street, Birmingham."

Here is certainly a leßson for the day. Probably there is not one pers^r in a thousand who has not suffered 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 slrin, spells of dizziness, hot hands and cold feet, bad taste iv 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 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 &eigel'B Syrup in curing this malady is due to the fact that it poes straight as an arrow to the vwy root and source of ir,, 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 digestive functson, is the hotbed of more sorrow, pain, and death than all the powers at the interior of the earth ever scattered over i\b surface.

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