Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20
PFTEsG AXIOM

TNROM the latIn verb purge, 10 cleanse or pu
L aty, 81 word which embraces wtthIn ITS =
ample ioids the whole art of medicine. However
murh the tru II may be hushed up or obscured
prn.ud i.diia trcscri, uons, or mysted ' heI-
crrugrueous compounds ii is well known by all,
who are competent to practice the healing art,
that no perma lent cure ever was euFc,ed except
bv purgdtI0u NtIna ants an dnodycs are some
ume- useful to totpty IN constitution. and tna.
b e It to wca her particular crisis, while AT the
same tImeI pur4at.O Is at work removing The
canse but wa IT sane man ever believed that SIT
nut ats ,r aaodyues could cure disease,
Many hesitate To adopt the purgaiion theory,
from II rborIng the IGca that II l. something new;
some Nankce notion. recently got up, So Tar
iIom curing disease by purgaton being new
theory, il Is rVIGeutly the oldest on record, and
the ouiy one Which has received the sanction OF
Ho,y Writ Consult your Bibles, there you viii
hud the restoration of health hy the process OF
rrrging, used as IA familiar Illustration OF the
souls restoration to righteousness 10 use the Ian
plaue OF Isaiah. Oh. VI. YER, Z, our nIqulues are
t. ken away and our SINS pnrged. linus also,
M,lichi 3D. speaks ui God purglng and purul lug
the sinner, as d rehuer pnrgcs his gold. Ana
how Is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold Aud TINS Is the identical effect
which rood purgatives produce on The human bo-
Gy Paul, IN his first eplstIe to the Corinthians,
h. v. yer. : in auslon TO the fact that they had
a corrupt person IN the church, OF which he wish
ed them TO rid themselves, tells them 10 Purge
out therefore, the old lcaven, that We may become
a new lump Let US change the phrascoogy a
lutte aud 1t will read thus; Purge out, therefore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
Won mgy become a new Cor healthy person
But. my dear doctor, cNcluIms some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness to observe, that these
messages are used wholly with reference TO spirit
ual matters and | cannot see why the opTie ty
Of purging the body is proved from such texts
Well friend, | will endeavor to make II pialn. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is USED
only AS hguratN expression, TO illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact
another and entire ~ new idea, NIZ the purg'ng
away the corruplions OF our nature by the ate n
inp sacrifice of the son of God. Now, to make
this fguratIve word a proper Que to use uhuel
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgauon should really ana Un,
l nos. ess the power TO drive out OF The system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the pahent as
II were a new man, m other words perfectly
healthy man, and seronLly that thIs cohhe' 90"
between purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people to
whom these teachings were addressed. Ii the
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine
founded upon II be true, and I; the sccohu were
not known and believed by The people, the Illus
tration could not be understood nope, there-
fore that il Is concusNeiy proved. ny the ABOVE
ouotatious that the ancient Jews Lnew AND De-
Heved that purgation would remove all eoFrup-
lion or cause OF disease from the hnman frame,
and make of the individual as 1t were, a new man,
md further, that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned the lIactice.
Remember that to carry out 10 perfection the
above natural system OF cure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and the CROWN ot our own
coll indications me, by no med cine now before
The rublic, except the Great Western Pills. Il
Prepared only by DR.. JAMES Nj NlSH, and
sold in Southport, by LEI " LAY, on'V,
Nav. 1913 -iySI5n47 Agents tor Southport.