FOUR HOURS TOO LATE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 44, 2 March 1894, Page 15

FOUR HOURS TOO LATE.

" Oh, God! if I could recall the past three or four hours. See wiiat tronbU a '•nan, may bring upon himself all in a moment." Mr. James Curtis and Mr. O. S. Banner, both of San Francisco, had been intimate friends for years. Last summer they quarrelled for the first time, each accusing the other of wrong. Better thoughts prevailed and they were reconciled. But you can't undo what is once done Memory kept the record oa her slate. They avoided each other as much as possible. Still, living as neighbours, men must meet sometime. These two met in the street, The quarrel was renewed. Bitter words flew f*si and thick, and Curtis, oeside himself with rage, drew his pistol and shot B nnet dead on the spot. Later in the day he used the bove language— so laden with self-reproach and sorrow. Yet how useless, how hope'ess, how vain.

But was Curtis right in saying that trouble may come all in a moment ? True, it of len seems so, but is there not a deeper fact which we don't see? It matters nothing what the nature of the trouble is. Therefore let as consider a different case on the fame principle.

An intelligent woman says :— "ln October 1890, 1 had an attack of illness from which I never expected to recover. I had aching paias all over me, and a cough that nearly shook me to pieces. I obtained no good sleep night or day, and had to take to my bed. I was fed with liquid food from an invalid's cup, for I could not raise myself in bed. My heart flattered so you could hear it beat on the pillow, and often pains struck through it as though somebody had stabbed me. I lay perfectly helpless, and could scarcely breathe. A doctor attended me over a month, bnt I grew weaker and weaker. Sometimes at night I was so bad he feared I would not live till morning. He called in a consulting physician, and both agreed that my condition was critical. I was fed with brandy to keep me alive. My husband and daughter stayed with me almost constantly. None of tne medicines administered had any effect, I was almost at death's door.

" At this time Mrs X cling, of Mutley, near Plymouth, a friend of mine, urged me to try a medicine called Mother Saigel's Curative Syrup. I procured a bottle, and after a few days I was able to take and digest sufficient food to give rue tome strength, and the worst symptoms were greUly abated. After having used six bottles of the Syrup my health was completely restored, and I have since felt letter than for the prectons thirty i/eard. My two daughters have also been cured of indigestion by it. I will gladly answer any enquiries." (Signed) Mrs Louise Jackson, Builders' Arms Hotel, Bridge Road, Hammersmith, London, January 11, 1892. The lesson is the same. Watch tbe beginning of evil and check it while yet it may be easily controlled.

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