DO THOU LIKEWISE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 30, 23 November 1894, Page 20

DO THOU LIKEWISE.

When one sets a candle in a window on a dark night he never can tell how many lost and bewildered travellers it may guide on their way, I once knew a dear old lady who habitually did it on every dark oight. The read that pisse! her house was always forsaken and lonesome enough, aod houses were far apart. So, on the general principle of goodwill to men, she placed her candle in a sjrt of projecting window, where it would shine bath ways and do the most good. She is dead and tone now, but let us hope tbat her family keepsuD the custom. To be sure it brought her many a strange guest, yet Bbc did what she could for them, and never grumbled — pay or no pay.

A year or two ago a little book was printed, containing an account by Mr John Hodson, of Warboyp, Huntb, of the way he was cured of a wasting disease by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup— a complaint contracted in India, whe:e Mr Hodson was once a soldier in the British army.

Tbis candle of Hodson's beamed hopefully in all directions, and among others, its rays fell upon the eyea of a woman who needed light at that particular time. How it came to pass she tells in a letier, from which we quote the following : —

'■ As I grew weaker I was confined to my bed mori ana more, and my daughter was obliged to take my place in doiug the boueework. A doctor attended me for over a year. He tried first one kind of medicine and then another, but none of them helped me. At the end of the year the doctor said he could do no more for me, and recommended me as a last resort to try a change of air.

"I had got to despair of ever getting better when a book was sent to me full of statements from different people, telling how they had been made well of various complaints by using Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup, and I read of a young man living at Warboys, near me, having been cured in a marvellous manoer by this medicine. I got a bottle from Messrs Palmer and Sons, Chemists, Ramsey, and after I had taken it a week I felt relief and gained strength AH my }>am left me, and 1 have nevec looked behind me since. I take an occaßioaal dose of the Byrup and keep in excellent health. I give you full permission to use this letter aa you think fit. Yoarß truly, (signed) Sarah Mason, Ramsey Heights, Ramsey, Hunt?, January 27tb, 1892." Wbat better use could we possibly pat this lady's letter to than to publish it ? In this way it has fallen into the present readera'ai bands, and may turn out to be a candle in the window to show him refuge and shelter beside some long and gloomy path. A word more on this very point. If is nor a matter of choice whether we are to help one another. We are obliged and bound to do so by every consideration of morality and utility. Humanity is like the body of one man : if a single part is neglected the rest must pay the penalty. Therefore set candles in windows. If, for instance, Mother Seigel'fl Curative Syrup has done you good, say bo. pnblish it, make It known. Others near you may be gropiQg in darkness.

And it is all the more a subject of rejoicing that this remedy as in the above case, conquers indigestion and dyepapsia, because that complaint it is which clouds the sun for millions on Life's bard road.