A LESSON FOR THE WEAK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 9, 1 July 1898, Page 31

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 from 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 amount of tinkering and hammering at it would make it go ? Not a bit. Nothing on earth will make it go except steam in the boiler, and even that won't unless the engine is in order. Everybody knows that, you say. Do they ? Then why don't they act on this principle in every case where it applies 1 Here is such a case. Writing concerning his wife, a gentleman says : " In 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 fullness 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. J " At first she consulted a doctor at Ferry Hill, but getting worse she went to see a physician at Newcastle. The latter gave her some relief, but still .she did not r/rt her .strength vj? ; and after bemjr under his treatment for six months she discontinued goino- to him Better and worse, she continued to suffer for over a year when she heard of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She began takino- it and soon her appetite revived and her food <,aye her strength In a short time she was quite a new woman. Since that time (now nearly twelve ago) I have always kept this medicine in the house and if any of my family ail anything a few doses puts us ri"-ht — \ours truly, (Signed) George Walker, Grocer, etc., Ferry Hill" near Durham, October 2.> th, 181KJ." ' We call attention especially to those words in Mr Walker's letter which are printed in Italics. You can pick them out at -i glance. They show how fully he understands where human strength comes from— that it comes from digested food and not from -uiv 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 sufferel. her husband tells us The disease destroyed her power to obtain any strength from food and .Nature suspended her appetite in order that she may not make >\oi.sc by eating what, could only ferment in the stomach and fill her blood with the resulting poisons. The onlyioutcome of such a state of things must be pain and weakness— weakne-s which con tinned lon- enough, must end in absolute prostration andiertain death.

Well. then, she failed to get up her strength under the treatment ot earn r doUor. Why .' Simply b.c.u^e the medicines they gave her— whatever they may have been— did not cure the torpid and inflamed stomach. If they hud cured it then she would have got up her strength exactly as she afterwards did when she took bezels Syrup. But the trouble is this: Medicines that will do this are rare. If the doctors possess them they would use them and cure people with them, ot course. Mother Seigel's is one of these rare and effective medicines. If there is anothi ras good the public has not yet been made acquainted with the fact. But even the Syrup does not impart strength : it is not a so-called " tonic • "' there is no such thing. It (the Syrup) cun s the di*m*e, drives out the poison, repair-, the machine.

Jh n comes the appetite (all of it«eli) and digestion and stniK/tli. You see the older— the stquencc. Yes. Well rlease bear it m mind. The mechanics set the engine in order ; then the stoker gets up the s teuui.

And of the human body— the noblest of all machine—Mother Seigel's Syrup i 0i 0 the .skilled mechanic. #'*

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