The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1837-06-23
Extract frem Mr.. whiting
tsass Fast nav sermeu.
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that most errors owe their prevalence q
some interviewed and exaggerated Truth
There Is always some powerful reason
20 be given for the wide prevalence ol
any popular delasiOn. Nov. with NJ,
sPect 70 the recovery Of health. there il
very wide foundation laid 10 build upOu
mems hopes or fears. For. in The lirsl
place, il i very dreadful thing 10 he
sick; when health Is gone. our activity
Is gone, our gains are gone. our plans
and even our happiness Is gone. Many
diseases act on the nersous system.
and ill the mind with 4 thousand ina
ginary fears. The thoughts are left 10
prey On themselves. The sick man
sits alone in his sad chamber, away
from business. away from company; and
has nothing 10 DO but TO count his thro5-
bing pulse and measure his returning
pains. Then sickness is frequently the
harhlnger Of death, and the languishing
rhAm'er is the passage to the tomb.
Sometimes sickness il the effect of in
temperance or lust: il is an evil which
she victim mas brought upon himself. and
his conscience As well as his holy null
tiplies his pains. Ii is fearful thing to
lie languishing and looking on death, ex-
pectlng every moment To feel the blow,
while the tyrani hangs over Us, and shakes
his dari, but DELAYS 10 strike. In this idle
ami luxurious age, there is a vast multi.
tuie Of people who have nothing 20 do
but 10 imagine themselves sick. They
work too little and eat too much. and the
Natural consequence follows that they are
sick. without exactly knowing what il is
that ais them. Nothing they wish for
so much as for some person to step in
and tell them what the matter is. But as
this is impossible for an honest man TO
DO. they must hear il from man not so
honest; and the more eXtravaganl the the
orr, the more il strikes the fancy where
he disease chief. lies. What is there
possible or impossible that a yaletudinary
mn will not believe, provided il is uI-
tered with a confident tone. You NAV
place his disease where YOU please; in
bis lead or heart. his Lungs or stomach,
m his blood or his skin, and he can feel
u there. The more vivid yol describe
bis pans, the more he realizes them.
You may heap upon him all the CON-
pl@lnts that e. er ailiicted humanity; ,ou
ana, tell him he has the drops.. the
pl gue, the consumption, the palsy, the
enigma pectorls, the yellow fever, an alb
scess. felon. or a cancer, and he will
bis YOU for YOUR fidelity. lie consi-
drrs . cry disease YOU impute to him a.
= c1'npliment tn his own discernment: for
aS re was beforehand determined to be
Sic. the more maladies yoi accumulate
ar md him, he only finds he has so much
,he better excuse. Nov, such a man las
boundless appetite for all manner of de-
IuSion. No christian ever hungered aud
iti,>'e after righteousness so much as
h. t'oes for falsehood. lie is so passive
aud yielding, as TO rob the deceiver OF all
the praise Of skill in his receptions. and
le1ye nothing for his credit but his alb
slrdct wickedness.
Hence you find the papers filled with
the most extravagani promises: all calcu-
late! 10 strike sicklv imagination. tine
Processes to trace all diseases to me cause,
and To cure them BY any course of regi-'
men. Another pretends to abominate mi-
neral and chemical medicines. and to re-
store the most desperate sufferers bv the |
secret uirtues Of innocent herbs aad f5sU.
,rs. A third received his secret from an
afiGn. That strikes the imagination Of
some; the savages of our country, who
had Few diseases and left their own sick
10 perish, are supposed TO understand all
The coi3pter mGiadies Of potter life lei-
Ter 'h0n Ue OUrseires! 1t is wonderful,
10 be sure: nut no matter, so much the
more amazing. And if YOU, nv hearers,
have an amazing disease. and are amas.
ingfy put TO it to know what the mat /,
ter is, advise YOU by all means to try |
the amazing skill of some hdiaa D1efor, |
Or JoaOr % Mean. 1t is really sur
prlsing and huinbling to look over the !
90 ertisements Of a New York paper.
There Won see sin leading to pain. pain
pro cling fear, fear engendering creduli-
!! MI credulitv opening the way to pro-
m, So which seem TO rob ice of its sting,
on, to dart its poison more deeply into ;!
tn art. Ad, my hearers, il is not vir-
tue nj religion that make men credulous.
no. is 1t temperance Leading to health and
happiness. But men first walk in the
P tbs of forbidden graif~oti9n. and then
comes the strong ,lelusion which. bv
faIse confidence. sinks them stlll deeper !
in the punishment and the pain.
Equally false, as it seems to me, though
possibly springing from more respectable !
are all those extravagant plans /
Of diet, so strongly recommended. Their
authors well know to what weak side of
human nature they address themselves. 4,
They know that aS o,-r natinn iprra,so, |