Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-18
EoUJE2GE AT7KGsT

gI1ROM the laun verb Iurgo, 10 cleanse or pm
L ii Y, as word which embraces WIthla is
ample toids the Whole art Of medicine. IIoWrvc r
much the tru Ii may be has he'd UP or o! scDred
behind Latin prescrlI tons, or mYs.Iilcd let
ereogeneous compounds, il is We'll known by !!
who are competent to practice the healing ar;
that no permanent cure ever WIS ei,rc3cd except
by pureaton Stimalaais and an0dy Is some
times useful to toitifys the constitution, and ena
be il to wea her particular crisis, while at the
same timer pnrga;lon is al work removing The
cuuse; but what sane man ever believed that siI.
null uts or aaodyues could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the pprgdHon theory,
from harboring the IDEA that II Is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got gp. SO fer
from curing disease By purgatiou being a new
theory. ii is evidently tie oldest on record, and
the ouy one which has received the sanction Of
Holy writ Consult y0ur Bibles, there you viii
find the restoration OF health by the process Of
purqjng. used as Il familiar illustration Of The
souls restoration 10 rgateonsn"ss,r use l. Ian
guagc OF Isaiah, CHI. VI. yer,7, 'o"r mlq"'ucs aye
t. ken away aHd our sjn9 PurI"d. IhaS ai7o,
MaIichi Sd, speaks Of Gad purgiug and purit inn
the sinner as a ratiaeg purgcs his gold. And
how is that. Why to sep rate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the ljr Et,cal eject
which good purgativeS produce on the hunan ho-
dy. Paul, in hl~ ir>, cpiztlr TO the Corinthians,
CHI ". yer. Z, in a,luscu to the ict jhtt obey mad
a coYrapt person in the church, Of which he wish
ed them to rid Themselves, tells them - Purge
out therefore,, the old ltagen, thai yc may become
a new lump Let Us change the ptF"scologY a
little, and it will read taus Purge out, there tore,
the old and decayed atoms from yoar person that
YOU mf V become new { or hea;hy1 person.
But my dear doctor rxclaims some Goabter,
vou Will have 4 kindness to observe, thai these
pass lgcs are useu wholly with rctuence TO sPllt-
uai matters and | caGuot see Why the p oprlety
of purgng the boiyis proved floln such lexis
Well. friend, VIII cndeayor to make 1t plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only as hgurat' expression, 30 illustrate BY re
ference to familiar universally admitted ! CT,
another and entirely rew idea, VIZ, the pnr@'ng
away the corruptions OF our nature by the alton
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, 10 make
this hguratiye word proper Que to use under
these circumstance si two conditions were neceS-
sary. First, that purgti!on should really and trh
" possess the power to drive out Of TIE system al
foul and corrupt humorS, and maze the p1ncnt rs
it were new man, N other words pttteci
healthy man, and serenity that dis connection
between pnrgation and perfect health should hr
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed II tie
first was not true, Meth mHght the d@ctrm'
founded upon II he true, and i: tho second were
not known aud believed by the people, the illus
tration could not be understood h"rc, there
fore, that it is coarusiyely proved. by the shove
quotations. that the ancient Jews lnew and be-
lieved tina pnrgafon would remove ali cosrup
ton or cause OF disease from he hnman franc,
and make Of the individual as it wcre.a new mar,
md further, that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned the Practice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system ofcure, the medicines osrd
! must be vEGErBIE and The growth OF our on
SOIL indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except the Great Western pli~. Il
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