Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — A Woman’s Confession. [ARTICLE]

A Woman’s Confession.

“Do you know, Mary, I once actually contemplated suicide?” “You horrify me, Mrs. B. Tell me about it” “I was suffering from chronic weakness. I believed myself the most unhappv woman in the world.' I looked ten years older than 1 really was, and I felt twenty. Life seemed to hsve nothing in it worth liv.ng for." “I hsve experienced all those symptoms myself. Well*" “Well, I was saved at the eleventh hour from the commission of a deed which I shudder to think of. A friend advised me to take Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. I did so. In an incredibly short time I felt like a new be ng. The ‘Prescription’ cured me, and I owe Dr. Pierce a debt of gratitude which I can never repay. ’ An old colored minister invariably begins his sermons with this sentence, “Brethren, mv sermon is basted on the following text.”