Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — A GREAT REVELATION. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT REVELATION.

Some Valuable Thoughts Concerning Human Happiness and Timely Suggestions About Securing It. Synopsis of a leCttrt Delivered by Dr. Charles Craig’ Before the Metropolitan Scientific Association. “ The public speaker of the present day labors under difficulties of which the speakers of the last century never dreamed, for while the audiences of the past received what was said without question, those of the present day are usually the mental equals or superiors of the ones who address them. Bev. Dr. Tyng, of New York, when a theological student supplied a church in a neighboring town, and, on his way to preach One morning, met an aged colored man. ‘Well, Tuple, do,you ever go to hear the young preacher?’asked the unfledged doctor. * No, Massa,’ replied ttte negro, ‘dis chile don’t let node o' dem students practis on him.’ The darkey had begun to think. The free and independent thought of this age accepts statements only where they are proven to be truth, while the development of mental power seems equally great in every other department of life. The valuable inventions of the day are counted by thousands. The increase of scientific study is Universal. The spirit of inquiry in all fields la so marked as to ’cause VOMMERT OR EV&RY bIdE,

while pedpre Seem investigating and advahCihg in every direction which can help them morally, mentally or physically. This is specially true of the human body and everything which concerns it, and the truths which the people have found, even in the last fifty years, are simply marvelous. How really ignorant some cultured and supposably scientific people Were Only a few years ago, as compared With the present day, may be better understood ftOih a lbw illustrative facts. A prominent writer prepared an elaborate eßsay to prove that steamships could never cross the Atlantic, and his pamphlet was issued just in time to be carried by the first steamer that went to England. People Once believed that the heart was the sfeat Of life and health. It is flow known that this organ is only a pump, simply keeping in motion what other and hiore important organs ’df the body have cteated and transformed. It was once supposed that If a peTeoli felt a pain in the back, the liver was deranged ; if a pain came in the lower chest the lungs were affected and consumption was near ; it is now known that a pain in the back indicates diseased kidneys, while troubles in the lower chest arise from a disordered liver and not imperfect lungs. A severe pain in the head was once thought to come from some partial defahgeffient of the brain; It Is now knowtt thkt troubles in other parte of the body, and away from the head, cause headaches, and that only by removing the cause can the pain be cured. It is a matter of

PRIVATE UtSTORY that Gen. Washington was bled to death. His last illness was slight, and caused principally by weariness. A physician was called who • bled him copiously.’ Strange to say, the patient became no better. Another doctor was called, who again took away a large amount of the vital fluid. Thus in succession fiOiir physicians drew awiay the life of a gloat man who was intended fey habile for in Old age, and who prematulely died— ffiuraehed by malpracticebled to death. That was the age of medical bleeding!”

, The speaker then graphically described another period which Came upon the people, in which they assigned the origin of all diseases to the stomach, and, after showing the falsity of this theory, and that the kidneys and liver were the causes of disease, and that many people are suffering from kidney And liver troubles to-day who do not know it; blit who should know it and attend to them at once, conjjjiued : , , . > “Let tfslpdfc at this niftier a little more closely. .The human body is ths most perfect and yet the most delicate of all created things. It is capable of the greatest results and it is liable to the greatest disorders. The slightest causes sometimes seem to .threw ite delicate machinery out_of. order, most simple and _ con'rcon-cense care restores and keeps them in perfect condition. When it is remembered that the amount of happiness or misery we are to have in this world is dependent upon a perfect body, is it not strange that simple precautions and care are not exert*jsed ? This is one of the.most Htal tjiiesilpiis of life. People may Avttia it fer the present, but there is certain td come a time in everyone’s experience when it must be faced.

“ And here pardon tee for relating a little personal experience. In the year 1870 I found myself losing both in strength and health. I could assign no cause for the decline, but it continued, until finally I called to my aid two prominent physicians. After treating me for some time, they declared I was suffering from Bright’s diseasn of the kidneys’, And lliat they could do nothitig ffiore for me. At this time I was ite Weak I could not raise my head from the pillow, and I

FAINTED REPEATEDLY. My heart beat bo rapidly it was with difficulty I could sleep. My lungs were also badly involved; I could retain nothing ttpdh my stomach, while the and bowels caused me to long for death as a relief. It was at this critical juncture that a physical longing which I felt (and which I most firmly believe was an inspiration) caused me to send for the leaves of a plant I had once known in medical Aftet gteat difficulty I at last Secured them and began their Use ih the form of tea. I noticed a lessening of the pain at oitee; I began to mend rapidly; in five weeks I was able to be about, and in two monthsT became perfectly well, and have so Continued to this day. It was only natural that such a result should have caused me to investigate most thoroughly. I carefully examined fields in medicine never before explored. I sought the cause of physical order and disorder, happiness and paih; and I found the kidneys and liver to bb the governors, whose motions Fegulatethe entire system.” After describing at length the offices of the kidneys and liver, and their important part in life, the doctor went on to say : “ Having found this great truth, I saw clearly the cause of my recovery. The simple vegetable leaf I had used was a food and restorer to my well-nigh exhausted kidneys and liver. It had come to them when their life was nearly gone, and by its simple, yet powerful, influence had purified, strengthened ahd restored them and saved me from death. Idealizing the great benefit which a knowledge of this truth would give to the world, I began in a modest way, to treat those afflicted, and in every case I found the same

HAPPY RESULTS which 1 had experienced. Not only this, but many, who were not conscious of any physical trouble, but who, at my suggestion,' began the use of the remedy which had saved my life, found their health steadily improving ana their strength continually increasing. So universal, where used, was this true, that I determined the entire world should share In its results, and I ? therefore, placed the formula for its preparation in the hands of Mr. H. H. Warner, of Rochester, N; Y., a gentleman whom I had cured of a severe kidney disease, and who by reason of his personal worth, high standing and liberality in endowing the Astronomical Observatory and other public enterprises, has become known and popular to the entire country. This gentleman at once began the manufacture of the remedy on a most extensive scale, and to-day, Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the pure remedy that saved my life, is known and used in all parts of the continent.

“I am aware a prejudice exists toward proprietary medicines, and that such prejudice is too often well founded, but the value of a, pure refnedy is no less because it is a proprietary medicine. A justifiable prejudice exists toward quack doctors, but is it right that this prejudice should extend toward all the doctors who are earnestly and intelligently trying to do their duty? Because Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure saved my life before it became a proprietary medicine, is it reasonable to suppose that it will not cure others and keep still more from sickness now that it is sold with a Government stamp on the wrapper ? Such a theory would be childish.” The doctor then paid some high compliments to American science, and closed his lecture as follows:

“ How to restore the health when broken and how to keep the body perfect and free from disease must ever be man’s highest study. That one of the greatest revelations of the present day has been made in ascertaining the true seat of health to be in the kidneys and liver, all scientists now admit, and I can but feel that the discovery which I have been permitted to make, and which I have described to you, is destined to prove the greatest, best and most reliable friend to those who suffer and long for happiness, as well as to those who desire to keep the joys they new possess.”