Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-23
PU G. ALTON

EVROM the laIin verb purge, to cleanse or pu-
L rify as word which embraces Nihl1 H.
annie folds the whole art Ct medicine, liowevtl
much the tru II may be hushed up or odsrurec
behind Latin preSCri F., ons, or mys'ted Y hct-
ereoeen, 5 C .mpouuds, it is we'll known by al
who are com ;etent 10 practice the healing ar
that no pt rmaneut cure ever was effected eAcep
nv Duroation Stmalants and anodyes ire some
times useful to loftily the constitution, and ena
be il 10 wea her particular CRISIS while at the
same timeI purga;ion is at work removing the
cupse; but what sane man ever believed that SUI
mulants or aaodynes could cure disease.
MANY hesitate to adopt the purgltion theory,
from harboring the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got rp. So FAR
from curing disease by purgation being IA new
theory. it is evidently the oldest on record. and
the ONLY one which Ers received the sanction of
HOLY wit Consult your Bibles, there you viii
find the restoration of health by the process OF
pnrqinq, used as familiar Illustration OF the
soul's restoration to righteousness, 10 use tie Ian
ouaue of Isaiah ch. vi. Ver.7, our lnIquiucs are
T. ken away aud our sins purGcd. Thus also,
NaIichi I'd speaks of God purgng and pnrit ing
the sinner as IA rehner purgeS his gold. Ana
how is that. Why 20 separate the impurities from
the pure gold And this is the IDENTICAL elect
which GOOD purgatives produce on the human boz
DIV. Paul. in his first epstle to the Corinthians
Oh. ". YER Tin allusion to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the chu-ch, OF which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that ye may become
a new hmm Let us change the phraseology
little. and it will read thus: Purge out, there! lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
YOU may become a new Tor eaI'hy) person.
But, nv dear doctor, eXciams some donbter'
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passa oes are used wholly with reference TO spirit
ual matters and cannot see why the y opriety
of purqnr the bodyis proved lTolh such ieMs-
Well friend | will endeavor to make II PLAIN. IN
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only as figurat, expression, 70 illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally auhi'"ed i.c''
another and entirely new Idea VIZ, the pureln9
away the corruptions Of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice oil the son of God. Vow, TO make
this fignrative word proper Que to use undel
these circumstances TWO conditions were ne'es-
sary First, that purgaiion should really ana 'ru-
" possess the power to drive ont oil the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient a.
il were new man, IN other words perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that TINS cohhftuO"
between purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people TO
whom these teachings were addressed. II me
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine
founded upon ii be true, and i: the second were /
not known and believed by The people, the Nus
traton could not be understood hope 'here-
fore, that it Is conclusIvely proved. by the aoo'e
quotations, that the ancient Jews line" ana oe-
lieved that pnrgatIon would remove all eotruP
lion or cause of disease from the hnman 'fame'
and make of the individual as ii were:a ne" man;
md further, that the Divine Being approved anu
sanctioned the iactlce. -
Remember that TO carry out to periec'oh '"F
above natural system ofcure, the meuic'hts pSeu
ms, be vrcrTRtr and The growth of our own
coll Indications mel by no medicine now before
the the public, except The Great Western Pills IL
prenared only BY DIR. JAMES M NISH, and
sold IN Sourhnort. bv LEE * LAY, only,
May, 1913 -iySI5n47 Agentstor Southport.