PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5839, 5 April 1897, Page 4

PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

It is not properly any part of my business to enforce lessons in ethics; therefore I commonly leave that responsible task to those whose vocation it is. But no man can continually write on the subject which 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 short 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, " now five years of age, was a fine healthy child up to March, 1891, when she 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 skin and bone. For days and days she laid in a half-conscious condition, scarcely moving hand or foot, and to all appearance lifeless. I had a doctor attending her for four weeks, and he said the child was suffering from indigestion, yet, so far as we could see, his treatment had no effect. My husband and I, aud all that saw the poor 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 fading aivay, when, one day, towards the end of April, a lady called, and after seeing Annie Jane, advised us to use Mother Siegel'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 Eoutly,' the chemist, in Susan's Road, and began giving it in small doses. In less than twenty-four hours the child began to eat, the sickuess 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 been ill. We consider that Mother Siegel's Syrup saved her'life. You can publish this statement and refer anyone to me. (Signed) Mrs Annie Alexander, 35, Melbourne Eoad, Eastbourne, August Ist, 1895." "My son Joseph," vrites Mr Joseph Bond, of Salter's Green, Mayfield, Sussexß " was never strong. He did not come m like other children. He was weak, sickiy and puny. He ate but little, and was usually in pain until he vomited most of it up again. Nothing gave him strength. In February, 1894, his feet and ankles began to fester. Next', three abscesses formed on his neck and under the chin, making deep holes. 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. From June (1S91) he had four months' treatment r.t the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, without benefit. The doctors gave him medicines and cod-liver oil, but nothing strengthened him. "In December (1594) I concluded to take the case into my own hands, and gave him a medicine thot had cured my wife — Mother Seigel's Syrup. To our astonishment and delight he began to improve in a few days. He could eat, and was stronger for it. Wo kept giving him the Syrup and he grew better every day. The abscesses soon healed, and ho is now a fine healthy boy, nine years old, aud strong/or the first time since he was horn. Publish this letter if you wish aud refer inquirers to me. (Signed) Joseph Bond, July 26, 1895." What, now, is that mighty fact in morals ? Ask yourself the question. What justice was there in the suffering of these 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 " has no pity, no mercy. Obey and live; disobey and perish, that's the whole story. . Then how does Mother Siegel's Syrup cure ? It cures by bringing the diseased and suffering body - back where Nature's hand can reach it. It puts the ■ derailed coach hack on the metals, it re-launches the stranded ship. The radical trouble of both Annie Alexander aud Joseph Bond wag of the digestion, the first (a mere baby then) having boon seized with acute indigestion, and the boy having, as his father tells vis been born with a feeble stomach. Hcnco, 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. Watch tho little ones and use Mother Siegel's Syrup whenever you see them inclined to droop or i languish.