PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 52

PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

It is not properly auy part of my business to enforce lessons in ethics ;' therefore I commonly leave that responsible task to those whose vocation it is. Bat no man can continually write on the subject whioh constitutes the burden of these essays without now and then running plump against a mighty fact in morals. If you will be good enough to read the following ahorb letters I will then try to show why I was moved to speak as I have spoken.

"My daughter Annie Jane," writes that young girl's mother, "vow five years of age, was a five healthy child up to March 1891 when sho began to sicken and fall away. She had no appetite; and every particle of food she took came up. She lost strength rapidly, and within a fortnight she was thin as a rake, being not much else than akin and bone. For days and days the laid in a half-conscious condition, scarcely moving hand or foot, aud to all apprfarai cc lifeless I had, a doctor attending her for four weeks, and he said tho child wag suffering from indigestion, yet, so fur as we could Ree, his treatment had no effect. My husband and I, and all that saw the poof baby, thought she was slowly dying, and we were almost heart-broken at the thought of losing her.

" Nothing that we gave her did the slightest good, and the child was fadiug away, when one day, towards the cud of April, a lady called, and after BeeiDg Anuie Jane advised us to use . Mother Seigel's Syrup. She said she had"" known the lives of many children saved by this medicine who were down with the same complaint. I hurried to get a bottle from Mr Routly, the chemist, in Sudan's road, and began giving it in small doses. In less than 2A hours the child begau to eafc, the sickness stopped, and we could see a change for tho better. We kept on giving the Syrup, and in two weeks Annie was well as ever, and fast getting back her flesh. Since that time — now four years ago — she has never beea ill. We consider that Mother Seigel's Sjrup saved her life. You can publish thi* statement and refer anyone to me. (Signed) Mrs Annie Alexander, 35 Melbourne road, Eastbourne, August 1, 1895 •'

" My son Joseph," writes Mr Joseph Bond, of Salter's Green, Mayfield, Sussex, " was never strong. He did not come on like other children. He was weak, sickly, and puny. He ate bat little, and was usually in pain until he vomited most of it up again. Nothing gave him strength. In February 1894- bis feet and ankles began to fester. N>xt, three abscesses formed on his neck and under the- chin, making deep holea. He was merely skin and bone. The abscesses seemed to be exhausting his life's blood. He was in a doctor's care five months, but got no better. F/om July 1894 he had four months' treatment at the Tuubridge Wells Hospital, without benefit. The doctors gave him medicines and cod-liver oil, but nothing strengthened him " In Decembsr 1894- I concluded to take the case into my own hands, and gave him a medicine that had cured my wife- Mother Seigel'a Syrup. To our astonishment and delight he began to improve in a few days. He could eat, aud was stronger for it. We kept giving him the syrup, and he grew better every day. The abjcesses soon healed, and he is now a fine healthy boy, nine years old, and strong/or the first time since he was horn. Publish this letter if you wish and refer inquirerß to me. (Signed) Joseph Band, July 26, 1895." What, now, is that mighty fact in morals ? Ask yourself the queitiou. What justice was there in the suffering of theao two little children ? For whose sake was it ? Why do the majority of the human race die in infancy and childhood ? That bundle of laws and forces called " Nature" bas no pity, no mercy. Obey and live ; disobey and perish— that's the whole story. Then how does Mother Soigel's Syrup cure P It cures by bringing the diseased and suffering body back where Nature's hand can reach i 6. It puts the derailed coach back on the metals, it relaunches the stranxltd ship. The radical trouble of both Annie Alexander and Joseph Bond was of the digestion, the firat (a mere baby then) having been seizsd with acute indigestion, and the boy having, as his father tells us, been born witb a feeble stomach. Hence, in his case, the bad blood and the abscesses by which Nature sought to remove it. Will parents take warning from these instances ? I hope so. W*tch the little ones, and use Mother Seigel's Syrup whenever you flee them inclined to droop or lansuisht «.