Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-12-29
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! EHROM the latin verb urge, to c'e;r-e or Pm.
L uiy, Il word which embraces Wuhia IL
ample folds the whole art of incidence HowevtI
much the !ru may lie hushtd up or ohscurec
behind Lattn preScrIl ons, or mEs'lhrd V bet
ereogeneous compounds, il is we'll known by al
who competent to pr. ctice the hca'ia ar
bat no permanent cure ever was cllrc',d exec p
by purgation .Stimaiants and anodycs re some.
times useful to foruty thu constitution. and ena
be il to weather particular crisis, whir at tie
same time purgaASu is al work renewing the
canse; but what sane man ever believed that s:I-
mul4nts or aaodyncs could cure disease,
Many hesitate adopt the pprgdtjon theory
from harbottng the IDEA that ii Is something new:
some Yankee notion. recently got up. so FIR
from curing disease by purgallon being d new
theory, ii is evidently the oldest on record and
the only one which has received the suHction of
Holy wit Consult your Bibles there You will
find the restoration of health by the process Of
purqing used as familiar Illustration of the
souls restoration TO righteousness to use the Ian
qua ge OF Isaiah, Oh. VI. ver Z, lniqulties
Il ken away and our sins purged. Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks OF God purglng aud purt ing
the sinner as reHner purges bis gold Aud
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the de nt,ea effect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epistIe TO the Corinthians,
CHI w. ver Z, in allusion to the fact that they had
~
ed them to rid themselves, tells them 10 Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that ye may become
a new lump Let us change the phraseology
little and il will read thus: Purge out, there tore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you ms become a new (cr healthy person.
But, nv dear doctor, eXesaims some doubter,
Won will have the kindness to observe, that these
passa ues are used wholly with reference TO spirit
ua matters and cannot see why the oprety
of purging the body is proved froin such texts
Well friend, | Will endeavor to make 1t plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge is used
only as figurati, expression, TO illustrate by re
ference to familiar, universally admitted TACT,
another and entirely new idea, VIZ, the purelng
away the corruptons Of our nature by the atom
inu sacrifice Of The son Of God Now, TO make
this fgurative word proper Que to use undel
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgailon should really and tru-
ly possess the power to drive out OF the system all
toni and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
il were a new man, IN other words Il perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
beIween nurqation and perfect health should De
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed. II The
first was not true, Meth Haght the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and i tho second were
not known and believed by the people, the !lus
tration could MT be understood hope, there
FORE that II is conclusIveiy proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews Lnew and De-
heved that purgation would remove all corrup-
lion or cause OF disease from the hnman frame,
and make Of the individual as it were,a new man,
md further, thai tie Divine Being approved ana
sanctioned the practice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection me
above natural system ofcure, the medic mes USED
must be vEGETBLE and the growth OF our own
soil. indications met by no med. eine now before
the public, except the Great Western Pills II
Prepared only by DR.. JAMES M NlsH, aud
sold in Southport. by LEE & LAY, only,
May, 1913 -iySI5n47 Agents for Southport.