Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-09
EoGTEaG AT7HON

! LRROm the htln verb purge, 10 cleanse or pm.
! L ufy, as a word which embraces Within it.
ample folds the " hole art of medicine However,
much the tru may be hushcd up or oascurcd
| behind Lattn prescriptions, or mfs'itied V bet
| ercogcneous compounds, it is we'll known by all
who are competent to practice the healing ar
! that no permanent cure ever was effected excep
1 by pur9atIon Simaiants and anodyes are some.
/ times useful to ioftify the constitution, and ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while at the
/ same timer pnrgaHon is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that Sill
! musnts or aHodyncs could cure disease
Many hesitate TO adopt the purgation theory
from harborlng the idea that it is something pew,
some Yankee notion. recently got Up, SO far
from curing disease by purgaton being a new
theory, it is evidently The oldest on record and
the only one which has received the sanction Of
Holy wit Consult your Bibles. there you viii
find the restoration Of health by the process OF
purqjng, used as familiar illustration of the
souls restoration TO righteousness, to use tie Ian
guage OF Isaiah, Oh. Vi. yer, ], our nqucs are
Il ken away and our sins purged.' Thus also
Malichi Sd, speaks of God purgng and purf ing
the sinner, as relner purgcs his gold. And
how is thai. Why TO separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And thus is the ent,cal elect
which good purgatives produce on the human Eo-
dy. Paul, in his first epistIe 10 the Curimhi'n
oh. ". yer. 4 IN ausion the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the chu ~ch of which be wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old Ieaven, that We may become
new lump. Let US change the phraseologv
little and it will read thus: Purge out there iore
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you may become a new (or healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, cNtlGims some doubter,
Won will have The kindness TO observe, that these
passa ges are used wholly with reference TO spirit
ual matters; and cannot see why the y opriety
of purgIng the bodyIs proved froIn such texts
Well. friend, will endeavor to make it plain in
all the texts above quoted, the word purge is used
only igurat' expression, 20 illustrate by re
ference to familiar, universally admitted feet,
another and entirely new idea, VIZ, the purgIng
away the corrupiions of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, to make
this figurative word proper Que to under
these circumstances. two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgaiion should really and tru
ly possess the power TO drive ont of the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
it were new man, IN other words Il perfectly (
healthy man, and secondly that this connection /
between purgaton and perfect health should be !
known and believed in by the whole people to
whom these teachings We're addresseI II the
first not true, Meth M ght the doctrine
founded upon il be true, and L the second were (
not known and believed by the people, the ius- |
ration could nct be understood j hope, there
fore, that it is conclusively proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews lnew and be-
iteved that pnrgauon would remove all corrup
ton or cause OF disease from the hnman franc,
and make of the individual as it were, "a new man,
md further, that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned he iactice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system ofcure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and The growth of our own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except the Great Western Pills u
Prepared only by DR.. JAMES NJ NlSH, and
sold in Soufhnort nv LEA LAY only,
May, 1913 -lySl5n47 Agents for Southport.