WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 23, 2 October 1896, Page 27

WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

Robinson Ckusoe, y v remember, made a big boat or canoe oat of toe trunk of a tree. It was a laborious and tedious job. And tl at wasn't the worst of it. When he got tbe boat done be couldn't liuncb it. It was too heavy for one man to handle. If he had only had an arrangement like the capstan of a ship he might bare managed. He understood hew to do it but lacked the tools. How c f ten we find ourselves at a dead etund for that same reason. Let me give you a fresh illustration, tied up for tbe moment in the following letter, which must first be read before we cm ngntly come at the point. " Id the spring of 1884," says our orreepoo ent, " I got into a low wenk way, not being able to imagine what bad -happened to me. My strength keit ebbi g away nil 1 ba 1 scarcely tbe desire or ability to do ai.ytbing. I f It as tired rs if I had just arrived horn* from a long, hard journey, yei uo tax more t bai usual of auy kind had been laid upon me. My mi ml too, was weary ; t»o that I turned from things ibat obliged me to think plan or consider. 11 Side t>j side, so to spenk, with all this »ai the failure of my appetite. Of course I continued to eat or make an tffort to eat, but food no lor ger Umptel me as it docs a person in health. I picktd ami minced o«i-r m\ me Is. ai d the Intl.- I to< k neither tested good n>r did me any good after I bad eaten it. lustead of wanning, com fon ins »nd s lmul tirg roe, as it used to do, it gave ire distriee ai tbe s omach, phin at the cheat, and a mngular feeling of tightness aiound the wain', us though a bell were buck ed too snug around me. "After a time the co diuoa of my stomach fremed to grow worse There »a« th t senwe <>• gnawing, B'> often men'ioned by others, occasion lly h feelintr i f faintnena and sinking, almost like the ground givirnr way un<ter ODes feet." [himahk : A i emit en» L ndon phvsiciar, in one of bis bookc, iie°c,ibes this t-iukintr feeling as one <>f the dqhr' appalling nod frightful tha 1 it is pi'B-iblt t expedience. It is uot the body but the mind that Hiiffe.ru I, the pre u ' nt wrrer, have had two attack* of it, <i' (i pbvto > aye n > mor< . 111 1 im Iken- m 'ht o^prsh >H wit eif the D »th Ansel's wint?, with the mind fully conscious of the situation Ihe cause is uric act 1 unison iv tue biuod, one ot the product* of pr< tvn tr- imd gectiou ] •• Whc-i ttus Mnkiutr feeling c mi 1 on," continues the letter, " it wp'ghe.<i me ilo>*n like an gh mure. Finally 1 in to be so weak I fomd <>nu wilk Rlnwlv inn feebly. The doctor who prescribed for me said <ny complaint rvas dyspepsia, but bis mediciue iiad nu percepUUltr tff C! . " 1 conunued like this for pight years ; not always the samo but now better and then woise Ye' in all ibat line nine tber« was not a day when I could say I was well. No medicine or treatment 8-ecne>i right for me, and I almost began to taluk I never sbuuld rt cover my former hfttlib. "In Maicr., 1892, Mo'ber Sei^el's Syrup was ncomm nded to me as having dove wo der» in cas^ b like mine, even wheu they were of long standing and everything e'se h«d fulled. No harm to try if, wi thought, and tot a bottle from vir Or me, tbe chemist, in B >ltnn lio'id ; and nfUr laking it Ife t gre t rel'<f Vn appetite qu ckly lenprovid, and 1 could eat without pmn When I bad taken two or 'hree bullies more ihi bud symptoms had all gon* , aud I wts ag well is evr-r. My hufb*nd also took the medicine with the t-ame good pNults Y< v may publish my letter and reler itqmre'B t'< me. (Signed) (.Wis) Klizi'p h Wilson, 5. Nortbcote Stree , Button Boad, Udrwen, M«ic" 1 t, 1895." The lei-son in ibio interesting rjnrrative is too plain for us to raise it. Our old friend Cinsoe was not able to lauueb hie r.o<*f for wait of mschiLeiy. Similhry the doctor wLoaittndtd t*.rs Wil»< n was ii( t Hhle to cure bei mci use he did not posi-ees the right itmtdy, llh ( p'nion j-s to iei ccoupiaint *as ebtuely comet. SI c wa* "i ff< r.Lg fie m cbrcnic djepj peia. j.rtci«e]y as he told her. But a'as I it ii one thing to know wt.at ought to be done and quiie another to have the knowledge anJ means to do it. Between the-e twd tMnu" (v< r ' hip wide gap) elands Mother Spigel'd w i>i(i, j . t Ub b'i» UDU D Dt imu bides of the Tbanus stands London Bridge