Have you ever tried to fancy how it might seem (having been dead) to come to life again? Let me tell you what hi dto me once.
arly in the spring of [871 T'was. thrown from a carriage and seriously hurt. The chief Injury was to the right leg below the knce—n deep and ragged cut. mode by " sbarp.cdged stone, The frat, surgical attention given it was hasty und unscientific, yet thus I journeyed 200 miles to my home in the count Blood-poisoning followed. Then several weel of acute pain and exhausting fever. Then crisis. For ten days and nights I was absolu ly unconscious—I was virtually dead. The hheatt still beat feebly, but the mind was sunk under Obi eu." OF that time I never remembered anything lost out of my history.
One morning I found myself—I was back to the world. used" to live in; I. saw bending over me the dear faces I used to know. The fever was gone; the pain was gone; my head was cool and. clear. My wife opened. wide Oh, the bright sunshine! Oh, the sweet, warm air! Ob,.to see the clouds, of apple blossoms that glorified the old orchard! Oh, to de alive? to bene familiar voloes once more The experience was very suggestive. As never before I. understood the Divine doctrine of the resurrection of the, dead.
So much for my. story. Now let me tell isan. American nomicd Alderson, and lives another man's story, ashe told it to me. at a place called Sink's Grove,. West Virginia. He is a gentleman of high character., He said: "Seven yeara ago to day' I.took my.weight on te scale in cat y ie Saece tran never in beter health lends..T-weighed exact pounds,
work- without: effort and sleep like baby. Two months later I began to feel and dull, There was more'or less pain. itt my appet was dark, thick, and scanty. Six weeks I was down with the dropsy. months Lsuffered like a martyr on iron. was a nasty metallic The lightest food lay on my stomach like Sate ea alti Pree tumble down gnd, die almost anywh "Twas in this ition.five y Kept clipping down the Bill Then came Ber ate. Bebin, for Maatkow—Bev. and Mrs. inkle Mr. E.C. ott. cough. No cough medicine had any effect on it. People whispered, He's going with Per str. Wachang, for " hefoo—Mrs. Sillem consumption,' and I thought s0, too. But it and Mra Gibson, wasn't consumption. Not a bit, My lungs were sound as a new bellows, 20 I found out afterwards, This is a common mistake. I Per str. Pébiy, from LondonMe. Neal. threw up. jing—even sweet milk. The doctor said T past got better or die, and that From Venice—M r, C. Beurmann. From Port Said—Mr. Shov'eky. From Penang—-Mr. and right away. I was now too weak to walk; I 'Mrs. Long. Jvrom_ Singapore—Dr. Stuebel could only totter and stagger. and servant. "From Hongkong—Dr. Riechett, 'A friend came' in one day and said, 'Alderson, you are in bad form: I wish 1 Mrs. Hresht eld Davis, Messre. A, G. Wood native ¥ servant, St-—Clauss, Chan Sew had knows it sooner; but I'm afraid it's Tin, Lo Chu'" Hu, Leung Shin Ching and Sye late now.' What would you have done
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