DIED WHILE IN PRAYER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 81, 7 April 1894, Page 4

DIED WHILE IN PRAYER.

_ "Another man was found in a kneeling posture his face buried in his hands, as if he Jiad died in prayer." I clip thia pathetio eentenoe from an account of the St. Eiiean coal mine disaster which occurred in France, iu December, 1891. The fire had been smouldering for years in a remote part cf the mine, but its further advance had been Btopped by barriers. Yet they proved insufficient at last, and the terrible fire-damp exploded, scattering death throughout the mine. Hnoh inoidents are too wall-known in Englaud to need further explanation or comment. Has it ever struck you that the interior of the human body is like the interior of n coal mine ? Well it is. All its operations go on in solitude and darkness. Gases are engendered in it that are just as dangerous as fire-damp. Generally they — yet hold on let's have the little story first. li'b about a woman, In faot, its from her, too, and is sure to interest somebody ; may be you. She says that a long run of time, from childhood to jears after her marriage, she never knew what illness was ; that is, so as to remember it, or to have it made a mark on her, as we may say. But mighty few folks manage to escape the old slave driver altogether. Nor did she. "It was in the summer of 1890," she eays, " when I began to feel bad. My appetite was poor, end what I did eat gate oie great pain and distress, My food seemed to lie like lead and after every meal, no matter how simple the food was, I bad the most exoruciating pain von can imagine. I had a n- gging, thudding pain at ray chest, and through to my shoulders, that was very hard to bear. So bad was it that I thought something (pethaps a turnout) was growing within me. As soon as ever food entered my stomach I used to say, ' It is beginning,' meaning the gnawing pain. " I took all kinds of things for relief and applied mustard plasters to the Ghent, but nothing did me any good. After a time I dared not take a proper meal ; I was afraid to eat, and got very thin and weak, It was as much as I could do to go about my house ork. In October of this year 0891) Mrs James Mercer, of 176, High Street, Longton, recommended me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrop, and I got a bottle and commenced to take it. After a few doees I felt relief. My food agreed with me, and by the time I had taken one large oottle all the pain had left me, and I now feel as well as ever I did. " — Yours truly (signed) Mrs Elizabeth Wright, 12, King Strfst, Hanley, Staffordshire, November 19th, 1891. You ask me what the sad fate of the misers have to do with the case of Mrs Wright I'll tell you in half a minute. This lady says she was taken ill in thi summer of 1890. Now, do you suppoie the illness and the cause of the illnoßs came up at the same time ? By no means. Cause first, effeot afterwards— that's the order, always. And, see here 1 A cause may be at work for weeks or years before you notice any results ; and until yon do notice results, you don't know there's aught gone wrong. Isn't that bo ? The miners, to be sure, knew that there was a fire in the mine. But it was fenoed off from them and tbey thought they were safe. The barriers leaked, and death griped them in a twinkling of an eye. The body is like a mine, as I have said Disease and death are caused by the action of poisonous gases and acids inside ft it. They all start from the stomach and then creep into every part ; sometimes fast, sometimes Blow. In some acute diseases very fast. The dootors often oall gout an " explosion" of urio aoid. The source of all these deadly things is indigestion and dyspepsia. Slight symptoms first, then the more terrible and alarming. Watoh the way it oomes on. Thiß was Mrs Wright's ailment. She suffered fifteen months before she found out what the matter was and what to do. Gracious, mercy if we only knew the tort of things that go on in our bodies we'd nnderstand that it's about as dangerous to work in a ooal mine.