"The cause of earthquakes," said John Wesley. is sin."
How he reasoned it out is not easy for the average sinner to see. The idea of such a tremendous physical convulsion as an carthy quake resulting from the violation of moral law is nonsense in the eyes of modern science. The reverse is more often true. "The cai of a deal of sin," said Hannah More, is bile." That we can see through. Bile poisons the brain, and the brain is the organ of the mind. It'is certain that all the earth. quakes that ever shook this wicked world never did half the damage that is done every year by sleepy stomachs and lazy livers. Generals have lost battles, statesmen have boo beaten in diplomacy, workmen have Deen thrown out of jobs, clergymen have preached sermons, and husbands and wives have Quarrelled for no reason under the sun but a "towel of liver complaint." The crust of can never lie quiet with such a force as biliousness under it. This is not a runaway metaphor; it is hard, cold fact, and the man who doesn't know it has never tried to do business with another man when the second man's skin looked yellow, or asked a loan from a friend when that friend was labouring under a sharp indigestion.
Writing of a time six years ago a lady says yellow and then of a In order to emphasise the importance of the cultivation of the soil and to encourage the people to follow agricultural pursuits, the monarch -of the country dition to use it. Stillatrifle of sustenance must Fometimes performs certain rites xt the be taken, The lady took it, digested a bit of it, "Emperor's Field," and gees through and suffered great distress fro the presence the form of ploughing and other work of of the rest in the torpid stomach. We the husbandman, On the 8th inst. the scarcely need say that her sleep was broken, Ennperor set out at daybreak from his and mind and body weary, weak, and out of tone. Now what sort of life is this to lead? palace, with @ numerous and magnificent What is anybody, good for while in such a train of courtiers and others, mounted state as that? What wages would you give and on foe to the field, to observe a servant who was always so? What would the carentonies of the occasion. The you wager on your own success in business if splendour of the Imperial train was be-you had to pit yourself against other people's youd description, while the route traversed by His Majesty was entirely adorned abarpuess, while you had to fight with a poi son-soaked head anda stomach that refused and decorated in auch a way 80 as to har. its breakfast? Not a crooked sixpence.
anise with th it ut the Imperial Our correspondent continues: 'At last I Before breakfast the Emperor toc' to my The doctor said my liver arrived at the shines of the deity presiding, Over agriculture and His Majesty stopped was wrong; that Tad the jaundice. As his medicine did no good, he advised me to go to the hospital. I objected to this, and he said, yorup his thanksgiving and sacrifices, "Fey a change of air, then, and see what that finished, the stately procession wended will do for you.' So I went t my oh home its way to the Tai Shei Tien where the in Fairford, Gloucestershire. Thi good, Emperor went through a similar function, and I consulted another physi Who at-ing and after the change of dress, tended me for son the morning repast was served, at the end of which the Emperor proceeded to the field, which is about 3 li in area. Around be dually growing more the field poles were erected on which feeble and miserable, with no expectation of fluttered innumerable flags and banners of better days, I lingered on until July, 1890, every description and colour, and at the four when an acquaintance urged me to try Mother corners of the field were erected four Seigel's Syrup. The confi seemed to have in this medi pavilions where the seeds of wheat and impression on me that I sent my niece four other cereals were placed. In the centr miles to get it. After taking the first bottle were numbers of magnificently attired Tfelt better. A weight appeared to be lifted courtiers each holding aloft a many from my chest, I began to relish my food, coloured flag, while on the side of the and felt better in every way. I will con passage were several scores of aged and clude by saying that when I had used two white-haired farmers, each having in bisharid bottles more I returned to Birmingham quite some agricultural implement. Placing his wel, and have no attack of the disease since. left hand on the plough and holding' the Tam only sorry I did not know of the Syrup whip in his right hand the Emperor ears before." (Sigurd Saka Hawkes, of begin the ceremony vf the occasion. the Lion Lun, Longmore Street, Birmingham." Here is certainly a lesson for the day. By pre-arrangement the officers did their Probubly there is not one person in a thou-allotted share, some wieldingthe agricultural sand. who haa not suffered from what is called implements while others scattered seeds a "bilious attack," and many are more or out of the baskets as if sowing, while the less bilious all the time. The symptoms are Eimperor was busied with the plough which these: Furred tongue, headache, dullness, was hitched to a richly caparisoned bullock and sleepiness, yellow eyes and skin, spells of dropped in yellow and led by two of the dizziness, hot hands and cold feet, bad taste Emperor's body-guards. On the Emperor in the mouth, loss of appetite, broken sleep, finishing his round at the plough the three nervousness, loss of inclination to exertion or princes were ordered to go through the work, low spirits, irritable temper performance, and after them nine high ing of a nauseating wind or gas, courtiers had their turn, after which eating, and wandering pains and all over the body. the performance closed. Having received These things signify liver complaint; and the greeting of the various officers, the the cause is indigestion and dyspepsia. If Emperor returned to his palace. long neglected there are plenty of worse consequences to follow. The success of Seigel's Syrup in curing this malady is due to the fact that it goes straight as an arrow to the very root and source of it, the paralysed digestion, Whatever may be the true theory of earth" quakes we may be sure of one thing, anyway—namely, that bile in the blood, arising from an arrest of the digestive function. is the hotbed of more sorrow, pain, and death than all the powers at the interior of the earth ever scattered over its surface (2) 7, 14& Qlap 91
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