DIED WHILE IN PRAYER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 82, 9 April 1894, Page 4

DIED WHILE IN PRAYER.

" Another man was found m a hneding posture his face buried m his haiids, asif he had died m prayer." I clip this pathctio eentenoe from on acoount of the St. Eiicnn coal mine disaster whioh occurred m Frunce, m Deof.mber, 1891. The fire had been smouldering for years m a remote part cf the mine, hot its further advance had been stopped by barriers. Yet they proved insufficient at last, and the terrible fire-damp exploded, scattering death throughout the mine. Such incidents are too well-known m Englaud to need further explanation or oornment. Has ii ever struck yen that the interior of the human body is like the interior of n coal mine ? Well it is. All its operations go on m solitude and darkness. Gases are engendered m it that are just a3 dangerous as fire-damp. Generally they — yet hold on let's have the little story first. It's about a woman, la fact, its from her, too, and is sure to interest Bomebody ; may be you. She say a that a long run of time, from ohildhocd to jears after her marriage, she never knew what illness was ; that ie, bo 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 m the summer of 1890," ebe cays, " when I began to feel bad. My appetite was poor, and what I did eat ga*e trie great pain and distrtdß. My food B6emed to lie like lead and after evuiy meal, no matter how simple the food was, I bad the most exorueiating pain you can imagine, f had a nagging, thudding pain at my chest, and through to my shoulders, that was very hard to bear. So bad was it.tbat I thought something (peihapß a tumoui) was growing within me. As soon as ever food entered try stomach I used to Bay, • It is beginning,' meaning the gnawing pain. " I took all kinds of things for relief and applied muetard plasters to the che«t, but nothing did me any good. After a time I dart d not take a proper meal ; I was afraid to eat, and got very thin and weak. It was as much ac I could do to go about my house ork. In October of this year (1891) Mrs James Meroer, of 176, High Street, Longton, reoommended me to try Mother Heigel's Curative Syrup, and I got a bottle and commenced to take it. After a few do?es I felt relief My food agreed with me, and by the time I bad taken one large bottle all the pain had left me, and I now feel as well as ever I did. " — Yours truly (signed) Mrs Elizabrth Wright, 12, King Strait, 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 m half a minute. This lady Biiys she was taken ill m the Bummer of 1890. Now, do yon suppose the illness and the causa of the illness oame up at the same time ? By no moans. Cause first, effect afterwards— that'B tbe order, always. And, see here I A cause may be at work for weeks or years before you notice any results ; and until you do notice results, you don't know there's aught gone wrong. Isn't that so ? The miners, to be sure, knew that there was a fire m the mine. But it was fenoed off from them and they thought they were safe. The barriers leaked, and death griped them m a twinkling of an eye. Ihe body is like a mine, as I have said Disease and death are caused by the action of poisonous cases and acids m Bide 'f it. They all start from the stomach and then creep into every part ; sometimes fast, sometimes slow. In some acute diseases very fast. The doctors often aall goat an " explosion" of uric aoid. The source of all these deadly things is indigestion and dyspepsia. Slight symptoms first, then the more terrible and alarming. Wat oh the way it cornea on. This was Mrs Wright's ailment. She Buffered fifteen months before she found out what the matter was and what to do. Graoions, mercy if we only knew the sort of things that go on m oar bodies we'd understand that it's about as dangerous to work m a coal mine.