The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-11-30
Actively at Work.
REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF
REV. w. ]. CHAPLIN, OF CHAT
HAM.
His Interesting Story of His Prostitution
and Restoration to Health.


and Restoration to Health.
(Frpm the State Journal, Springfield, IU.)
In the pretty little little village of Chat
ham, Sangamon county, there lives a Bap-
list divine whose snow white hair is the one
outward sign that he has encroached upon
the days beyond the allotted three score
years and ten. His clear eye, keen mental
faculties and magnificent physique all bear
witness to life well and nobly spent. TINS
pioneer in Gods eternal vineyard is Rev.
w. j. Chaplin, whose ~ years are crowded
with noble deeds In the Christian ministry.
To State Joornal rep eseptiye who had
occasion to ask him something of his career
in the ministry, MIR. Chaplin talked in
peculiarly interesting strain. The subject
of his tne physique was preached by his in
terviewer and with increasing earnestness
he said that, in spite of the indications to
the contrary, his life had not all been sun
shine and good health.
LAS my present appearance testi6es, l
was fortunate in the possession of very
vigorous constitution. In my earlier years
l scarcely knew what it meant to be sick,
and / was almost perfect stranger to any
kind of medicine or tonic. AS is too often
the case, overestimated my physical re-
sources, and when ii was too late learned
that had oyerdrawn my health account
The crisis came about eighteen years ago.
At the time was preaching the gospel from
the pulpit, and l became suddenly so Ill
that l was compelled to stop before my
sermon was finished. 1t was a bad case of
nervous prostration, and for a time m,
friends and family were greatly exercised
over my condition. Complete rest was i'm
perative, and to divert my mind from my
active ministerial duties, Mrs. Chaplin aud
4 planned and took long trip. My health
was sufficiently restored by this diversion to
resume work, but was not the same man.
j shall never forget that awful experience.
1t is hard to describe my feelings so that
others can have conception Of them. l
felt absolutely worthless, physically and
mentally, had SO lost control of muscles
that my fingers would lnvoluntarity release
their grip upon a pen. and my hand would
turn over with absolutely no vOition on my
part.
about two years ago, to intensity mat
tiers, was seized with a severe attack of la
grippe. L recovered only partially from it
and had frequent returns OF that indescrib-
able feeling which accompanies and follows
that strange malady. l lOoked i'm vain for
something to bring relief and finally read
an account of DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People. Something seemed to tell me
that they would do me good and l com
menced using them. They gave me addi-
iiOnal strength from the start and toned up
my system from condition of almost abso-
lutte prostratiOn SO that 1 was able again to
resume my duties as minister. l was
so unaccustomed to taking medicine that
did not take the pills as regularly as should
have, and yet my improvement was marvel
GUS. am now preaching at Forest City
and L0ami and in addition to the exacting
character of this work itself, | ride ten or
fifteen miles on the way there and back"
Mrs. Chaplin, kindly faced elderly lady,
was present during the conversation and
said: IL don't think Mr.. Chaplin could ever
have resumed his preaching after he had the
attack of la grippe had 1t not been for the
Pink Pills. They did him so much good
that decided to test their efficacy on my
self. l have been troubled for years with
what our physician, DIR. Hewitt, calls rheu-
matte paralysis. Electricity gives me relief,
but since taking the Pink Pills have been
stronger and the pain in my right arm and
hand is less acute. We keep the pills i'm the
house nearly all the time, and they do me
great deal of good i'm the way of toning up
my system and strengthening me. The
pills are used by good many others in this
vicinity and every one speaks well of them.
Mrs. Japh Knots, wife of Supervisor
Knots, was i'll for long time and her
friends had all given her case up as hopeless
when she began using the pills. 1t was the
first medicine that helped her. She had
been i'll for good many years and has been
greatly benefited by the Pink Pills."
These pills are manufactured by the DIR.
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
". Y, and are sold only in boxes bearing
the firms trade mark ana wrapper, at so
cents box or SIX boxes for 81 so, and are
never sold in bulk. They may be had of all
druggists or direct by mail from DIR. Will
liams' Medicine Company.