A LESSON FOR THE WEAK.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XXIII, 4 June 1898, Page 716

A LESSON FOR THE WEAK.

Do you see that locomotive engine standing on the side-track? Something has broken down about it. There is not a hiss of steam icom its valves; it is still and cold as a dead whale on a beach; it can’t draw a train; it can’t even move itself. Now', tell me, do you believe that any amotint of tinkering and hammering at it would make it go? Not a bit. Nothing on earth will make it g > except steam in the boiler, and even that won’t unless the engine is in order. Everybody knows that, says you. Do they? Then why don’t they act on this principle in every case where it applies? Here is such a case. Writing concerning his wife, a gentleman says:—Tn the autumn of 1880 my wife fell into a low, desponding state through family bereavement. Her appetite was poor, and no food, however light, agreed with her. After eating she had pain and tightness at the chest, and a sense of fulness as if swollen around the waist. She was much troubled with flatulence, and had pain at the heart and palpitation. At times she was so prostrated that she was confined to her room for days together and had barely strength to move. ‘At first she consulted a doctor at Ferry Hill, but getting W’orse, she went to see a physician at Newcastle. The latter gave her some relief, but still she did not get her strength up; and after being under his treatment for six months she discontinued going to him. Better and worse, she continued to suffer for over a year, when she heard of Mother Siegel’s Curative Syrup. She began taking it, and soon her appetite revived and her food gave her strength. In a short time she was quite a new woman. Since that time (now nearly 12 years ago) I have always kept this medicine in the house, and if any of my family ail anything a few doses put us right. — Yours truly, (Signed) George Walker. Grocer, etc., Ferry Hill, near Durham, October 25th, 1893.’ We call attention especially to those

words in Mr Walker’s letter which are underlined. You can pick them out at a glance. They show how fully he understands where human strength comes from—that it comes from digested food and not from any medicines the doctor or any one else can give us. Let us have no mistake or confusion of mind on this important point. For example, Mrs Walker was ill with indigestion and dyspepsia. Her symptoms, and how she suffered, her husband tells us. The disease destroyed her power to obtain any strength from food, and Nature suspended her appetite in order that she might not make bad worse by eating what could only ferment in the stomach and fill her blood with the resulting poisons. The only outcome of such a state of things must be pain and weakness —weakness which, continued long enough, must end in absolute prostration and certain death. Well, then* she failed to get up her strength under the treatment of either doctor. Why? Simply because the medicines they gave her — whatever they may have been—did not cure the torpid and inflamed stomach. If they had cured it then she would have got up her strength exactly as she afterwards did when she took Seigel’s Syrup. But the trouble is this: Medicines that will do this are rare. If thd doctors possess them they would use them, and cure people with them, of course. Mother Seigel’s is one of these rare and effective medicines. If there is another as good the public has not yet been made acquainted with the fact. But even the Syrup dees not impart strength; it is not a so-called ‘tonic:’ there is no such thing. It (the Syrup) cures the disease, drives out the poison, repairs the machine. Then comes the appetite (all of itself) and digestion and strength. You see the order—the sequence. Yes. Well, please bear it in mind. The mechanics set the engine in order; then the stoker gets up the steam. And of the human body—the noblest of all machines — Mother Seigel’s Syrup is the skilled mechanic.