PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1897, Page 555

PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

It is not properly any part of my business to enforce lessons in ethies ; 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 witbin a fortnight she was thin as a rake, being not much else than skin and bone. For days and days she lay 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, hie treatment had no effect. My husband and I, and 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 away, when one day, towards the end of April, a lady called, and after seeing Annie 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 Susan’s Road, and began giving it in small doses. In lees than twenty four hours the child began to eat, the sickness stopped, and we could see a change for the better. We kept on giving the Syrup, and in two weeks Annie was as 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 Seigel's Syrup saved her life. You can publish this statement and refer anyone to me. (Signed) Mrs Annie Alexander, 35, Melbourne Road, Eastbourne, August Ist, 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 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 abcesses formed on his neck and nnder 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 July (1894) he had four months' treatment at the Tonbridge Wells Hospital, without benefit. The doctors gave him medicines and cod-liver oil, bnt nothing strengthened him. ‘ln December (1894) I concluded to take the case into my own bands, and gave him a medicine that had cored my wife — Mother Seigel's Syrup. To oor astonishment and delight he began to improve in a few days. He could eat, and was stronger for it. We kept giving him the Syrop, and he grew better every day. The abscesses soon healed, and he is now a fine healthy boy, nine years old, and strong for the first time since he was bom. Publish this letter if you wish and refer inquiries to me. (Signed) Joseph Bond, July 26th, 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 Seigel’s Syrup cure? It cures by bringing the diseased and suffering body back where nature’s band can reach it. It puts the derailed coach back on the metals, it re launches the stranded, ship. The radical trouble of both Annie Alexander and Joseph Bond was of the digestion, the first (a mere baby then) having been seized with acute in digestion, and the boy having, as his father tells us, been born with 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. Watch the little ones and use Mother Seigel's Syrup whenever you see them inclined to droop or languish.