Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — “Good Medicine.” [ARTICLE]

“Good Medicine.”

A Missionary recently returned from Burma with an amusing story of the exaltation of a dozen patent-medi-cine bottles to the rank of idols fervently worshiped by a whole village. On one of this lady’s tours, she passed through a small settlement where cholera was raging. She had with her qeveral bottles of a famous "ready relief’ for pain; so she went from house to house dosing numerous sufferers, and left the bottles for the natives to use after she had gone. Returning to the village some months later, the lady was met by the head man of the community, who cheered her pious soul by saying, “Mem sahib, we have come over to your side. The magic did us so much good that we now accept and worship your gods.” Delighted at this news, the missionary accompanied the man and his followers to his own dwelling, where he opened the door of a room, and showed her the pain-killer bottles arranged neatly upon a sort of altar. The whole company immediately prostrated themselves before them in solemn worship. —Youths Companion.