The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16

attracted for the time being, the attention
of the family, so that they did not think
of the sick woman up stairs, or that she
might have some anxiety. AS the cries
grew louder with the increasing crowd and
the engines rumbled along the streets,
and the woman realized that the fire was
close at hand, her agony became almost
uncomfortable. The thought of being burn
ed alive as she lay there excited her TO
the verge of madness. Suddenly, as the
noises swelled into the great cry. and as
she thought she heard the kissing of The
flames as the water fell on them she leaped
with a bound from the bed and ran down
the stairs. She had been shocked into
life. t, tstt ~
This is not a solitary case. The story
of this event in the newspapers called out
from various sources accounts of similar
events in which cure has been wrought
by strong excitement. In one case it was
the shock of an earthquake-in another
case overwhelming jealousy upon the part
of the wife, and in yet another case the
dread of fire, as in this instance, which af-
fected the cure.
The remarkable fact is that from a con-
dition of absolute helplessness, with not
the slightest hope of recovery-a condition
in which htere was absolute incapacity to
act, to move, or stand or walk; these peo-'
pie have in a moment, found themselves
in the active possession of all their pow
ers and faculties with perfect freedom of
movement and an entirely new life OPEN
ing up before them. These facts are inn
portant because they prove that there is
a great reserve force in nature upon
which the sick can draw if they can once
be brought into contact with that reserved
force by the use Of proper means. There
are thousands of people, men and women,
who, have sunk into a similar condition
of apathetic helplessness who are dis
eased beyond help as they. believe, and
who simply live along, bearing as best
they may, the pangs and pains of their
malady, waiting for the last sharp agony
that shall put an end to their suffering.
In a large majority of cases, these peo-
pie if they could be acted upon by the re-
ouired force could be restored to condl-
ton Of healthy happy living. There is for
these, as there is for every one, great re-
serve force, in nature, a great power Of
recuperation, when the proper means can
be broughttinto use, to cause this reserved
force to flow and to start up the machin-
cry of recuperation. The great need of
the despairing and helpless sick is HOPE.
People who have tried doctor after doc
tor and prescription after prescription and
have failed to find any relief for their
decline of health into condition which
have grown steadily worse with every day
such people lose the most precious pos
session that any single person can have,
and that is the one thing-HOPE.
Imagine a typical case Here at the
open window in the warm days of Indian
summer sits a. young woman. The
hectic of consumption is burning in her
cheeks and she breaths painfully. She
It
the beautiful colors Of autumn and shin
ing in the glorious warmth of the sun.
AS she looks, she hears the voices OF the
birds and notes the gathering flock of
blackbrds as they swing Rnd sway in their
passage to the South. How she enYies tho
birds that tell her of the change OF climate
that might help her. But that is abso-
lutely impossible, and she sinks back into
her chair as the last stragglers of the
rearguard of birds pass out of view. with
an utter sinking Of the heart All her
hope of health and life absolutely gone!
What could put hope back into her
heart?
Suppose that down that street. beneath
her window, there should come an army
A QUARTER OF A MILLION
strong, of men and women, young and
old. husbands and wives. mothers and
fathers, sons and daughters, the very pic
lures of perfect strength and health. Sup
pose that she were told that every person
of this great army, every one Of that quar-
ter of a million. had been in a condition
as desperate as her own; though not all
from the same disease. Suppose 1t we're
pointed out to her that IT per cent. of that
great army, or more, had been sick Of the
same disease is hers, and had been as
helpless and hopeless as herself. Would
not such a scene as this, such evidence Of
health and healing cause hope 60 spring
once more in her breast and reanimate
her with the purpose 10 struggle against
the dread disease that was dragging her
down.
This is not fancy sketch, but an ac-
tual life sketch. Not one woman alone
sits at her window, watching the birds
in their flight 70 the South and longing to
follow them watching the crimson fires