Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-02-23
A MINISTER'S WARNING,
DR.. Talmsge Graphically Describes the
Mad Struggle for Success.


destruction, he says, through excuses
in work and living. picture Of
midnight scene in a millionaire,
Observation-Disclosures unable to brighten 9
wretched life.
There are few men in America who
are so well known as DR.. Talmage of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. He weekly al
dresses. through the newspapers, nearly
30, OOO,O 600 people, who are impressed by
what he says, because it is the result of
continuous observation and deep Study.
DR.. Talmage has again and again called
attention to danger that menaces every
man and woman in the country. In a
recent sermon he once more repeats
those words of warning. In speaking of
the evils of Overwork in business or So
cial duties, he says:
"Oh, what an altar, what sacrifice of
body, mind and seul! The physical
health of a great multitude Is flung on
this sacrificial altar. they cannot sleep,
and they take choral and morphine and
intoxicants.
"Some of them struggle in a night
mare of stocks, and ut one O'Clock in the
morning suddenly rise up shouting, "A
thousand shares of railroad stock-one
hundred and eight and a half; take II. y
until the whole family is affrighted, and
the spectators fall back on their pillows
and sleep until they are awaked again by
a corner or sudden rise in something
else. Their nerves gone, their digestion
gone, their brain gone, they die"
At first thought this description seems
overdrawn. But is it? Are we not too
active, too intense? DO we not exhaust
too rapidly? DO we get the pleasure out
Of life that we should? is there lot
some means by which we can make life
easier? Thinking that the statements
made by DR.. Talmage merited investi-
CATION, reliable reporter has collected
the following live facts which will be
found OF great interest. MIR. +. w.
whiting. well known in connection with
telephones, when told of the remark
made by DR.. Talmage said:
'Yes. we do live too rapidly. We
succeed and accumulate wealth, but we
exhaust ourselves in doing it. The aver
age American spends The first half of his
life in acquiring wealth and losing
health, and in the last half he spends his
wealth to regain his health. | know
this from my own experience. The pace
at which l did business nearly killed
me. A few years ago was nervous. IT.
ritable. run down. longed for life, vet
did not care for it. l dreaded death. but
living was uDbearablc. What? In per-
feet health now! Yes. am. l save nv
strength, use good judgment, and take
Warmers Safe Cure regularly. l am not
Of this, but rather proud of it.
have found it to be indis pensable to nv
health and happiness. Do i work? Yes,
hard every day, and believe all amer.
leans can do the same thing, regardless
OF competition or social demands, if thew
Will act upon my Suggestion"
Mr.. Z. r. Lawrence. the banker and |
member OF the N. Y. Stock Exchange.
when approached upon this subject. |
said: "Aly one who has ever been in |
the New York Stock Exchange, or he's |
witnessed the amount of mental pres
sure which it involves, does not need to |
be told that Americans live rapidly. and
yet many OF orr men and women live to
as green an old age az Europeans, but in
addition to working hard they recreate
and use proper tones. think, by ex-
perience, that Warmers Safe Cure is an
excellent tonic"
X. &. a. Harvey, b. D., Washington.
D. c., chee-fully made the following
statement: 81 take pleasure in stating
hat l have for mary years been ac-
lnainted with the we'll known Warmers
safe Cure, and with its remarkable cura-
Ave effects. In some cases of sickness
which seemed to be in the last stages. and
which had been given up by practitioners
VI both schools, the speedy change
wrought by this remedy seemed but
little less than miraculous"
An interesting experience was related
" Mrs. Neatie, No. 245 Fast Eighty
econd street: Give years ago" she
AID, ~ became run down by sickness
which finally ended in kidney disease.
was daily placed under steam app,-
atus for hours ut time without effect
everal physicians attended me and used
II known methods to cause me To
erspire. | had heard considerable about ,
remedy that had been recommended
me, and finally began to use it. 1t
eally did work wonders IN nv case. and
would not be without it for any money. .
'ersonally feel that owe it to human
y to publicly mention that it is to
arner,s Sale Cure that l owe my re-
0very."
With these plain truths in mind. will
on neglect the "minister's warning?"