JOHN WESLEY'S THEORY OF EARTHQUAKES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 9

JOHN WESLEY'S THEORY OF EARTHQUAKES.

1 The cause of earthquakes,' said John West ley, 'is sin.'

How he reasoned it out is not easy for the average sinner to see. The idea of such a tremendous physical convulsion a 3 an earthquake resulting from the violation of moral law is nonsense in the eyes of modern science. The reverse is more often true. ' The cause of a deal 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 earthquakes that ever shook this wicked world never did half the damage that is done every year by Bleepy 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 quarrelled 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 a 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 indigastion.

WritiDg of a time six years ago a lady says her skin became first yellow and then of a saffron hue. Her breathing was difficult and short, and she felt much pain in the chest and sides. Her appetite failed, of course, for Nature never calls for food when she 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 her 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 people's sharpness, while you had to fight with a poison-scaked head and a stomach 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, and he said, " Try a change of air then, and see what that will do for you." So I went to my old home in Fairford, 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 v 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, 14J90, when an acquaintance urged me to try Mol;h»r Seigel's Syrup. The confidence my Mend seemed to have in this medicine made such an impression on me that I sent my niece four miles to get it. After taking the first bottle I felt better. A weight appeared to be l'ifted from my chest, I began to relish my food, and feft better in every way. I will conclud .e by saying that when I had used two bottles more I returned to Birmingham quite well, and have had no attack of the disease sinse. lam only sorry I did not know of the Syrup years before, (Signed) Sarah Hawkes, of the Lion Inn, I/ongmore Street, Birmingham.' Here is certainly a lesson for tho day. Probably there is not one person in a thousand who has not suffered from what is callled a 'bilious attack,' and many are more,or less bilious all the ime, The symptoms ~ are these : Furred tongue, headache, dulnes r and sleepiness, yellow eyes and skin, spalls of dizziness, hot hands and cold feet, bad taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, broken sleep, nervousness, loss of inclination to exertion or work, low spirits, irritable temper, the gulpin j of a nauseating wind or gas, distress after e iting, and wandering pains and uneasiness all over the body. These things signify liver complaint : and the cause is indigestion and dysDepsi: t. If long neglected there are plenty of worne consequences to follow. The success of f leigel's Syrup in curing this malady is due to tl le fact that it goes straight as an arrow to tha very root and source of it, the paralysed digestion,

Whatever may be the true theory of earth' quakes, we may be sure of one thing, a nyway —namely, that bile in the blood, arisin % from an arrest of the digestive function, is the hotbed of more sorrow, pain, and death t ban all the powers at the interior of the earth ever scattered over its surface.