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VESSELS UNTO HONOR
A SERMON PREACHED BY
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Rev. WALTER M. GILMORE, Pastor Eirst Baptist Church
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If ii num I herefon- purge lilirsi If from
tlo sn, In shall be it vi-'sel unto honor, sum--
titled and meet for the Miisti r's ti’ ■ 11 d
pre pa rod tin io every good work.” 2 Tim. 2:21.
This passage is very licit in sugges
tive thoughts The apostle had just
been talking about certain vain babblers
whose teaching was grossly at fault,
and which would eat those in whom it
found lodgment as does the gangrene.
•■Nevertheless he adds. the fotinda
tion of God standeth sure 1 am glad
that what men think and say about the
truth, does not affect it in the least.
They may trim it and pare it to suit
their taste or convenience, but the
genuine truth remains the same, "yes
terday. to-day and forever, because it
has the seal of the Lord God Almighty
upon it He knows who are his and whj
are not.
The apostle further adds: "And let
every one that nanieth the name of
Christ depart from iniquity. ' If you
are going to join the Christian family,
do not bring reproach upon its head by
keeping company with iniquity When
one of the family, one wtio bears our
own name, goes astray, how it pains us
Be more jealous about the reputation of
the celestial family into which we are
adopted.
Now does some one suggest that, as a
matter of fact, every one who assumes
this name and joins the church does not
depart from iniquity. But know you
not that "in a great house there are not
only vessels of gold ami silver, ’out also
of wood and of earth, and some to
honor and some to dishonor?' The
same is true with reference to the
"church of the living God. the ground
and pillar of the truth,'' which is the
earthly house for the indwelling of the
Holy Ghost. There are vessels unto
honor and vessels unto dishonor in it .
The value of these vessels is not to be
determined by the external appearance
every time. Some have the semblance
of gold but are cankering brass on the
inside. There are men ot tine culture,
splendid intellectual endowments, who
can make a magnificent display in a
moral essay’ or sermon, but when
sounded are found to be nothing but a
clanging cymbal There are those who,
like the golden pitcher in the drawing
room, are used only on special occasions.
There are those who are less pretentious
like the earthen pitcher or the wooden
bucket, whom the Lord calls into active
service every d iy.
Now God does not look with disdain
upon culture if it is of the right sort,
nor does he put a discount upon wisdom
if it is taught of the Spirit Indeed he
has made those highly possessed of
these, chosen vessels like I’anl to bear
his name before kings and princes, .lews
and Gentiles, rich and poor. What
splendid vessels of honor were Spur
geon, Gordon, Broadus, into whom God
poured himself and from whom should
issue perennial streams of blessings to
a sin-sick world. These were large ves
sels. Their influence flowed out over
great numbers. But there is use for all
sizes in the Master's house. God de
lights to use small and unpromising
looking vessels sometimes.
While at the Seminary at Louisville,
Ky.. 1 frequently went out to the Alms
House Sunday afternoons to preach
to the poor unfortunates and to
visit them in their rooms, striving to
carry a meny beam of sunshine and
gladness into their beclouded lives
Sometimes as I would stand and watch
them tile into the chapel my heart would
sicken within me What miserable
specimens of humanity! There was the
maimed and the halt, the blind and the
paralytic, the aged and infirm, all nun
tiers of deformity—white and black,
male and female. As these poor crea
tures would crowd around us to hear
the glad story of Jesus and his redeem
ing love. I was reminded of scenes in
our Savior's own life
But the character that impressed me
most was that of a poor old negro.
"Uncle Charlie.' who had been lying
fiat of his back for twelve years, at
times suffering the most acute and in
tense pains. I never failed to visit
“Uncle Charlie's " humble bedside, be
cause I could gain enough inspiration
and hope to last me during the follow
ing week. He always wore a broad
smile upon his black face, and from
those two great white eyes of his
beamed forth the celestial rays of God's
sunshine and love. As we would sing
sweet songs of praise, he would almost
go into ecstacies. Though he did not
know a letter in the book, he would
quote passage after passage of sweet
promises, and as he would tell how
precious they were to him. he would al
most leave his couch I will tell you.
friends, if such an experience as that
would not knock the skepticism out of
one, he is harder than Ingersoll or any
of the so-called higher critics. God be
praised for the benign influence of
U ncle Charlie. Though he had a black
skin and a diseased body, he was one of
God's chosen vessels to testify to the
genuineness of the hope that is in Christ
Jesus.
Let us not despise our humble posi-
tion then. Some of the sweetest
draughts of water that ever passed
mortal lips were from the pure crystal
fountain bubbling up from the solid
rock amongthehills, ami drunken from
a pure old fashioned country gourd.
Not that the gourd made the water bet
ter: for tinder certain conditions, had
the gourd been green or unclean, the
taste of the water would have been far
otherwise. The usefulness of a vessel
depends not. so much upon the kind of
material it is made of as the condition
of the material and t he character of the
contents put into it. That vessel is
best which imparts less of itself to its
contents Have you never drunken
water when yon could taste the bucket?
God uses those vessels most which im
part the least of themselves to the gos
pel which he puts into them. Before
the gourd can be used the bitterness
must be scalded out of it. Before we
can be used we must be placed in the
burning furnace of God's love, and
sometimes in the seething caldron of
affliction, until all the bitterness of self
has been boiled out of us Standing by
the fountain of God s truth as it bub
bles rip from the eternal Rock of Ages,
whether golden, silver, wooden or
earthen vessels, be filled with the truth,
and let it proceed from your lips and
life in its purity with the least possible
coloring matter of self. Speak the
truth as it is in Christ Jesus.
This leads us to speak of the apostle’s
first condition "If a man therefore
purge himself from these " i. e. if he
cleanse himself from vessels of dishonor,
from vain babblings, youthful lusts, etc ,
"he shall be a vessel unto honor.” We
do not wonder that God does not use
those whose garments are smirched
with sin and whose hearts are rotten
with iniquity. The truth is pure and
white and it could not enter such ves
sels without being tainted and discol
ored. 1 have noticed that around
whisky distilleries they are not particu
lar about keeping the vessels in which
they put the slops clean and nice, be
cause the contents are unclean and in
tended for hogs, ami hence the filthier
the better. Now. by a very easy tran
sition. the devil likes unclean vessels,
the fouler the better, because the con
tents he puts therein are rottenness and
corruption. Did yon ever notice that
the Lord never uses largely in winning
souls those who frequent ball rooms,
card parties, theatres, saloons, those
who are not scrupulous in their busi
ness transactions, or those who gossip
about their neighbors ? I have. But
some how or other, the devil can usu
ally manage to use them to good advan
tage-
Some are very particular about the
outside of the platter, while within is a
'superfluity of naughtiness." Oh, let
ns pray with the penitent Psalmist,
"Wash me thoroughly from mine in
iqnity and cleanse me from my sin."
" Purge me with hyssop and 1 shall be
clean; wash me and I shall be whiter
than snow." Pray with this assurance
that " if we confess our sins he is faith
ful and just to forgive us our sins and
cleanse us from all unrighteousness;"
for " the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son,
cleanses from all sin. "
We notice in the text personal re
sponsibility. If any man will purge
himself. The priest first sprinkled blood
upon the leper and then told him to go
wash himself in water Christ our great
high priest has sprinkled his blood upon
our leprous hearts, and we must purge
ourselves by a determined purpose to
depart from iniquity and live unto God.
And what is the incentive? "If a
man purge himself he shall be a resw I
unto honor, sanctified and meet for the
Master's ust." What honor Ito have
such a Master, and to be fit for his use;
to have the name of the King of glory
inscribed upon your foreheads, show
ing wherever you go that you are his
property, as wherever you find a piece
of property belonging to our Govern
ment you will find “I. N.'onit. Ido
not know where the Master has de
signed to use you It may be behind
the plow bandies, or in a shop, behind
an engine or on a wagon, in a senate
chamber or in a pulpit. Mayhaps he
will fill you full of his spirit and sit you
down by the bedside of affliction to re
fresh and cheer, or to pour into the
wounded broken spirit the balm of Gil
ead Perhaps he will fill you with
sweet incense like Mary's alabastar box.
and then break you as he did "Uncle
Charlie," that you may give the rich
perfume of his grace to all about you.
Wherever he places you, remember that
you are not your own. but that he
bought you and paid for you with his
own precious blood. And henee if he
should say “Go tell the story of re
deeming love in far off China, in the
jungles of Africa." go. Should he say.
“ Stay at home and make money to sup
port those who have already gone and
those who ought to go.” to that do not
demur. Whatever he may enjoin upon
us. that let us do cheerfully, having
only one greit consuming aim. to serve
him. and glorify him in our bodies.
Now we have a vessel that has le?n
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX : THURSDAY, MARCH 5. 1896
thoroughly cleansed. sanctified, set
apart for a holy purpose, with the King's
name stamped upon it. It is ready for
use. But it will never be of any ser
vice unless it is filled with something.
It is quite necessary that it should first
be emptied. Some one has said that the
disciples in the upper room were being
emptied for ten days before Pentecost.
The son of thunder was being emptied
of his thunder that he might be filled
with love Doubting Thomas was be
ing emptied of his doubt that he might
be filled.with faith. Vacillating and
and impetuous Peter was lieing emptied
of his presumption and fickleness that
he might be filled with all the power of
God. Nature abhors a vacuum. Ex
haust all the air in this room and then
make a crevice in the wall and you will
hear the wind whistling through it to
fill up the space. It is necessary there
fore to be completely emptied
of sin emptied of self that the
Holy Spirit which is the breath of God
may rush in and fill us with his pres
ence. Yon remember the man about
whom our Savior spoke,and out of whom
an nnslean spirit went; and when the
spirit had walked through dry places
seeking rest and found none, he said,
' 1 will return to my house from
whence I came." And when he reached
it he found it empty, swept and gar
nished. What did he do ? Why he
went and took seven other spirits more
wicked than himself and entered into
that house and dwelt there.
It will never do for us to remain
empty vessels We must be filled.
With what 1 Luther used to say:
“ Martin Luther does not live here;
Jesus Christ lives here.” And the great
est of the apostles said: “ I am' crucified
with Christ, nevertheless 1 live and yet
no longer I, but Christ liveth in me."
As the flower lives in the seed, as the
oak lives in the acorn, so Christ should
dwell in us. It is only’ as we can say
" None of self and all of Christ" can we
be useful < )nly as we are filled with
his spirit ami his truth are we thor
(Highly furnished and prepared to every
good work.
• >h. may we be so brimful of the
gospel that as we jostle against the
world we may overflow, or rather, may
we have in us a well of water springing
up into everlasting life refreshing and
saving those with whom we come in
contact.
■' (>ii. fill us Jesus. Savior, with thy lo ve
Lead, lead to the living fount above,
Thither may’ I, in simple faith, draw
nigh,
And never to another fountain fly
But unto thee.”
ASKED AND ANSWERED.
BY C. E. W. DOBBS, D.D.
This morning I was reading Luke(s:4o
in the improved Bible Union version,
and I do not exactly catch the meaning.
Does it mean that thebeliever is des
tined to be like Christ? W. H. c.
Jesus was inveighing against false
teachers, the "blind" guides of the cur
rent Pharisaism. He warns his hearers
against being led by them, and states
the inevitable end of such leading
teacher and taught come to the same
destruction. The word "perfect" here
in the common version is perfected” in
the Revised Version, and "completed”
in the Bible Union The meaning is,
that when the one taught by these false
teachers has received their teaching, and
become completely schooled under their
guidance, he will rise no higher than
his teachers. He will be so drilled as to
be just like them -only a blind guide.
Many of these expressions used by our
Lord were proverbial among the Jews,
and they are used to illustrate various
phases of truth It is a blessed truth,
that the believer in Jesus is destined to
be conformed to the image of his Sav
iotir (Rom. 8:29; 1 John 8:1 3), but that
is not the reference of the passage in
Luke (1:40.
Dear Brother; —Is it right for a
minister to go into a brother pastor's
field to preach funeral sermons and to
marry’ people? I know of a former pas
tor who seems to delight in doing these
things. He actually’ visits among his
former parishioners and solicits the
privilege of marrying the young people,
and recently he sent an appointment to
preach a series of sermons there without
so much as asking the present pastor's
wishes in the matter. Is such conduct
brotherly? Is it ministerial?
A TROUBLED ONE.
Such conduct is decidedly unbrotherly
and if “ministerial" at all it is so only
because some minister has been guilty
of the unbrotherly acts complained of.
Certainly, no right-thinking min
ister would do such things. It
is a pastor's duty and privilege to
perform all pastoral acts for his people,
and nothing sooner alienates pastor and
people than for them to send for other
ministers to officiate on such occasions
as those referred to. Especially should
the pastor be asked to conduct funeral
services. It is then that the true pastor
gets very near his people, and such a
pastor cannot but feel that he has been
wronged when another minister is called
in for such service. There are doubt
less occasions when it is desirable that
for good reasons certain ministers shall
be asked to officiate at both funerals
and marriages, but even then the pastor
should not be ignored. He should be
consulted and the occasion should be
placed under his conduct, though the
other minister, as we said, for good rea
sons, takes the leading part. Let the
company and people generally under
stand that the pastor has the esteem of
his flock, and is present not as a specta
tor. but as the pastor, with all his rights
appreciated and recognized. As to that
“series of sermons” we can only say that
such an appointment as our "troubled
one" complains of, indicates a degree of
effrontery on the part of the offender
which we can scarcely’ believe possible*
Surely no self-respecting minister ever
did so unseemly a thing.
Brother Dobbs: —What is the mean
ing of the expression ‘ ‘So mote it be"
which is used so often by the Masons?
MACON.
It is equivalent to “So be it,” or
"Amen ” Webster gives “mote" as an
obsolete form of “mought, might,must.”
One frequently hears the negroes and
ignorant whites say “mought,” and
most persons who hear it doubtless do
not know that was the old imperfect
form of the verb may. We suppose the
Masons use the “mote" in no peculiar
sense: it is only an “ancient form. "
Dear Doctor:—l heard a prominent
evangelist recently say there were four
occasions on which Jesus is said to have
wept. I can find but two occasions,
namely, at the grave of Lazarus and
when he wept over Jerusalem (John
11:35; Luke 19:41). What other occa
sions can you give? N. T.
Cruden’s Concordance refers to Mark
5:38 and Luke 8:52. but nothing is said
about Jesus weeping on that occasion.
We do not know what the ' ‘ evangelist"
had in mind. Certainly he mentioned
the occasions, and N. T. should have
| given us his references. Heb. 5:7 tells
us of tears shed by’ Jesus in the flesh. It
is a somewhat mysterious passage whose
meaning is variously understood. Com
pare it with Matt. 26:39 and parallel
places. The exceeding sorrow of that
occasion may well have brought tears
from our Lord. On the passage in He
brews Ellicott says: “Some of the ex
pressions in this verse would lead us to
believe that the writer's thought is rest
ing on the agony in the garden; but the
strong cry brings before us the cruci
fixion (Matt. 27:46 50), and the words of
Psi. 22:1 lie very near the thought of
this verse. It does not teem necessary
to decide—we may doubt whether it is
possible, and whether both should not
be included.” Dr. A. C. Kendrick
(American Commentary) says; “The
participles, ’offering up' and ‘being
hearkened to,’ denote single, not habit
ual acts, and clearly point to a single
scene. The scene is the agony of the
garden. * * That
the evangelist does not mention ‘tears'
in his record of this midnight struggle
constitutes no objection to our view.
Such suffering could not have been with
out tears. * * * * It is
better to limit it to the prayer in the
garden, in which Christ actually did
pray for deliverance from death, and
was answered with tokens of the divine
approval. ”
We have thus gone beyond the request
of our correspondent simply because our
study’ of the question has been the occa
sion of renewed interest to our mind,
and thoughts have been suggested which
we could not but believe would be found
interesting to others.
Brother Dobbs In Heb. 10 :5 Paul
quotes the Scriptures as saying "a body
hast thou prepared me.” The margin
reference is to Psalm 40:6, etc. But Ido
not find the expression in that verse On
the contrary, it reads: "Mine ears hast
thou opened.” 1 can see no relation be
tween the two sentences. My commen
tary covers only the gospels and the Acts,
and I have no means of explaining.
Will you please do so? M. o. H.
Passing by the assumption that Paul
wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, which
is at least very doubtful, the difference
in the quotation as found in that epistle
and the words as they occur in the Psalm
must be attributed to the fact that the
Psalm as we have it in our English Bi
ble is translated from the original He
brew, while the arthor of the epistle
quotes from the Septuagint, the Greek
translation of the Hebrew Scriptures
current in the apostolic day. Nearly all
the quotations in the New Testament
from the Old are from this Greek ver
sion. Dr. A. C. Kendrick (American
Commentary) says: "The meaning of
both clauses is substantially the same,
and probably the Greek translators, to
avoid the harshness of a literary render
ing, which, in Greek, would have been
nearly unintelligible, simply generalized
the expression, and, instead of the more
special symbol of obedience, the “ears,"
as the organs with which we hearken
and obey, put the 'body' as the general
instrument of accomplishing God's
will; and thus represent God. instead of
hollowing out for him ears with which
he might hearken, as framing for him a
body with which he might execute his
will.”
Bro. Dobbs: The Methodists object
to the imputed righteousness of Christ.
How then do they expect to obtain jus
tification in reference to the require
ments of the moral law? Doesn't their
doctrine of "falling from grace" virtu
ally base their salvation upon two dis
tinct foundations? To wit: Saved partly
through the urerit of Christ, and partly
through the merit of their personal obe
dience to the moral law. I consider
your answers to questions the jewels of
the Index. j. h. o.
Article 9of the Methodist “Articles
of Religion treats of the "Justification
of Man." It declares: "Weare account
ed righteous before God, only for the
merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, by faith, and not for our own
works or deservings; wherefore, that
we are justified by faith only, is a most
wholesome doctrine, and very full of
comfort.”
Article 10 declares concerning good
works: “Although good works, which
are always the fruits of faith, and fol
low after justification, cannot put away
our sins, and endure the severity of
God's judgment; yet are they pleasing
and acceptable to God in Christ, and
spring out of a true and lively faith, in
somuch that by them a lively faith may
be as evidently known as a tree is dis
oerned by its fruit. ”
These articles are i lentical with the
eleventh and twelfth articles of the
Episcopalians, from whose "thirty nine
articles" the Methodists’ twenty-five ar
ticles were abridged. But the Episco
pal articles were written by men strong
ly Calvanietic, while Mr. Wesley was a
pronounced Anninian. Hence in the
abridgment the fam >us seventeenth ar
ticle treating on “Predestination and
Election” is entirely omitted. But Mr.
Wesley taught clearly that we are jus
tified only through the merits of Christ.
If J.jH.O. has access to Wesley's sermons,
which every Methodist preacher is sup
posed to have in his library, we advise
him to read the sermons on "Justification
by Faith, ” "The Righteousness of Faith, ”
and “The Lord Our Righteousness ”
These sermons utter no uncertain sound,
and are admirable gospel discourses. In
the last named sermon he asks: But
when is it that any of us may’ truly say,
The Lord owr righteousness? In other
words, when is it that the righteousness
of Christ is imputed to us, and in what
sense is it imputed? * * * To
all believers the righteousness of Christ
is imputed. But when is it imputed?
When they believe; in that very hour
the righteousness of Christ is theirs. It
is imputed to every one that believes, as
soon as he believes; faith and the right
eousness of Christ are inseparable. *
* * * But in what sense is this
righteousness imputed to believers? In
this: All believers are forgiven and ac
cepted, not for the sake of anything in
them, or of anything that ever was,
that is, or ever can be done by them, but
wholly and solely for the sake of what
Christ hath done and suffered for them. ”
There is much more to the same effect.
Os course Mr. Wesley explains the mat
ter on the Arminian hypothesis, but no
teaching ever more positively affirmed
the grand old gospel of salvation by
grace. If the Methodists object to the
"imputed righteousness of Christ" they
are not walking in the footsteps of their
Father Wesley.
As to their doctrine of “falling from
grace" it does appear to virtually nullify’
their teaching of salvation by grace, and
there can be no doubt that the great
mass of those who believe in "falling
from grace" really have very inadequate
ideas of the plan of salvation. The
thought of salvation by works seems to
be more deeply imbedded in poor human
hearts than is commonly supposed.
Dr. Dobbs:—ln the Index dated
February 6th in the Asked and Answer
ed column M. N. L. asks if “evil things
are of God?" Y’ou told her that "all
evil is from below - from Satan and our
own sinful lusts.” Will you tell me
where Satan and our own sinful lusts ’
come from ? P. I
Ah. sister, you have asked me the ;
most difficult of all questions—that con |
cerning the origin of evil. Whence Sa (
tan? We know not. Certainly he was
not created a "devil” by God. The com
mon opinion is that he is leader of the
fallen angels spoken of by Jude. If so
he was created holy, and, like Adam,
fell from his “first estate." James tells
us that we may not ascribe our tempta
tions to evil to God. (James 1:13-15.)
Only that which is good and perfect
comes from Him. We are conscious of
possessing a depraved nature which is
prone to evil. Instead of cavilling, wis
dom says we should fly to Him who has
promised grace to conquer Satan and
sin. (Heb. 4:16.) The question should
not be, “How did we become sinful?”
but, "How can we be saved?" Thank
God, the "blood of Jesus cleanses from
all sin.”
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Pen Droppings.
BY l. l. v.
Col. Ingersoll avers that he
was impelled to his attacks on the
Bible and Christianity by a de
sire to free the human mind and
the human soul from the thrall
dom of superslition That there
are superstitions which pass un
der the name of Christianity and
that fetter the intellect and bring
into a spiritual bondage we
cannot deny. The most august
of all superstitions—that cun
ningly devised combi nation of Pa
ganism, Judaism and Christian
ity which is known as Romanism
is most adapted to this pur
pose. To free one from this
yoke of bondage is indeed a work
in which a philanthropist might
well engage. No one ought to
be censured for wishing to bring
about a state of public sentiment
which W’ould render the oppres
sive tyranny of priestcraft i n
possible. But one need not at
tack and denounce the whole sys
tem of Christianity in order to
do this. There is at least one
denomination of Chris ians in
which scarcely a faintest tinge
of priestcraft can be detected,
and in which each member en
joys the most complete freedom
of action and thought. The Bap
list preacher is in no sense of the
word a priest. * He is simply an
officer among his brethren, and
when he fills the office of pastor
he is chosen for the performance
of certain duties. He is not ele
vated to a higher cast, and no
one thinks him charged with the
power to control the eternal des
tinies of man. In the faith and
practices of Baptists there is
nothing which forbids as much
freedom of body and soul as Col.
Ingersoll or anybody else en
joys. They are, indeed, pledged
by their vows to the cultivation
ol the virtues which elevate and
beautify humanity, but thus ren
der more free rather than en
slave. The Saviour promised
that His freedom should be true
freedom—freedom from a costly
and burdensome ritual, and free
dom from the bondage of super
stition and sin.
A Woman’s Heart.
ONE DISEASE THAT BAFFLES THS
PHYSICIAN.
The Story of a Woman who Sort.red for
Nine Years. How She was Cured.
(From the Newark, N. J., Evening Newt)
Valvular disease of the heart has always
been considered incurable. The following
interview therefore, will interest the medi
cal profession, since it describes the success
ful use of a new treatment for this disease.
The patient is Mrs. Geo. Archer, of Clifton,
N. J., and this publication by the A’ncr is
the first mention made of the case by
any newspaper. All physicians consulted
pronounced the patient suffering with val
vular disease of the heart, and treated her
without the slightest relief. Mrs. Archer
said : “ I could not walk across the floor;
■either could I goup stairs withoutstopping
to let the pain in my chest and left arm
cease. I felt an awful constriction about
my arm and chest as though I were tied
with ropes. Then there was a terrible nois«
at my right ear, like the labored breathing
of some great animal. I have often turned
expecting to see some creature at my side.
‘‘Last July," continued Mrs. Archer," I
was at Snringfield, Mass, visiting, and my
mother snowed me an account in the
Springfield Examiner, telling of the won
derful cures effected by the use of Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People.
My mother urged me to try the pills and
on November 25th last I bought a box
and began taking them, and I have takei
them ever since, except for a short in.
terval. The first box did not seem to
benefit me, but I persevered, encouraged
by the requests of my relatives. After be
ginning on the second box, to my wonder,
the noise at my right ear ceased entirelv. I
kept right on and the distress that I used t«
feel in my chest and arm gradually disap
peared. The blood has returned to my face,
lips and ears, which were entirely devoid
of color, and I feel well and strong again.
“ My son, too, had been troubled with
gastritis and I induced him to try the Pink
Pills, with great benefit. I feel that every
body ought to know of my wonderful curt
ami I bless God that I have found some
thing that has given me this great relief.”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are now given
to the public as an unfailing blood builder
•nd nerve restorer, curing all forms of
weakness arising from a watery condition
of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful
causes of most every ill that flesh is heir to.
These pills are also a specific for the troubles
peculiar to females, such as suppressions,
all forms of weakness, chronic constipation,
bearing down pains, etc., and in the case of
men will give speedy relief and effect a per
manent cure in all cases arising from mental
worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever
nature. The pills are sold by all dealers,
or will be sent post paid on receipt of price,
(50 cents a box, or 6 boxes for s2.so—they
are never sold in bnlk, or bv the 100 by
addressing Dr. 55 illiams’ Medicine t orn*
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