BURNING HUMOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8849, 29 August 1907, Page 6

BURNING HUMOUR.

Painful Swellings Formed in Armpits and on Back—ltching Prevented Best—Suffered Six Weeks and Became Bun Down from Want of Sleep—Three Full Sets-of Cuticura Bemedies Entirely Cured Him.

" I had been troubled with swellings under my armpits and on the small of the back accompanied by a burning itch to such an extent that I got very little rest, day or night. This had been going on for six weeks or more and I tried various soothing ointments. These, however, gave only temporary relief, and as I was getting run down from the want of rest, 1 decided to consult a doctor, but on noticing the Cuticura Remedies advertised in the paper, I thought I would give them a trial. I used Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills for three successive times. I am thantful to say that, though my trouble was painful and severe, my cure was complete within a month. Robert Beatson, 81 High-street, Fort William Dec. 6 and 12, 1906."

repulsive 1" Had one of such sceptics been present w v ith the earnest little baud of inquirers whose doings are now being chronicleq , ,, he would have found that-instead of being a communion with mouldering corpses the, cults knowu as Spiritualism n-ud to- , "hungaism-identical sciences—are an intercourse with what profess to bo spirit forms very much tilivo. and often much gayer than physical personalities. However, the chief object of the meeting, that night, from one point of view, was quite attained, aud there is not a particle of doubt in the writer's mind that the tohunga of to- ( y_ljo a l she a prophetess or be he a prophet—is nothing but a professed Spiritualist in the commonest acceptation of the term. It is neither necessary nor desirable to recount hero the many extraordinary truths ascertained solely through professedly spiritual agencies. At this sitting many interesting matters were, divulged to even the prophetess herself, which she confessed would in all probability occur, and of which the subject, had positively no knowledge whatever. In lightning transition the pakeha coutrols blended, grave with «ay, aud when the magnetism of the company was exhausted, the medium a perspiring worldling, in a physical and mental sense, and the time far past the hour when church-yards yawn, the prophetess was fain to retire without being called upon to display her own supernatural talents. The knowledge that the practice of genuine tohuugaism is but the ordinary spiritualistic science in the possession of a few, some of whom—as iv the case of Rua—choose to abuse their power, demonstrates a fact that in list be patent to a logical mind. Admitting that a tohunga is a spiritualist, how impotent must be any effort of the white race to crush out belief iv his power when the study of the great pschycical phenomena is becoming an ever-extending religion amoug many thousands of white people themselves, and an acknowledged scientific force among others. By telling the Maori that the tohunga is an impossibility judged by his own prophecies, we would be denying the existence of a self-evident feature of modern religious ami scientific discovery, for there is indisputable evidence that we are but on the threshold of the greatmystery of the spiritual hereafter. There seems little difference between a handsome. winning and gifted Maori enchantress discoursing prophecy in a weird ineantauon, while in clairvoyance she discerns the physically indiscernible, and the city lady who advertises seances in a public hall on two or so evenings a week, The hitter's patrons are equally well satisfied with their'" fortune ,, as the confiding Maori belle with the tohuuga lady's prophecy. This fact the writer eaii positively assert without fear of contradiction, that many thoroughly well educated Maoris have a firm belief in the powers of the genuine toliunga. Even among the Maoris false prophets arise, but their reputation is short-lived, and speaking for genuine tohungaism. from a close personal acquaintance with more than one tohunga, and with the Maori race in different parts, the writer affirms that the day is yet far distant when the Maori's belief iv it will be shaken—if that day ever arrives.