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stantially correct. And if so, it
is certainly due to the memory of
Dr. Mercer that it should not be
forgotten.
There were twenty-six sub
scribers, it seems, to that $2,-
500. This gives an average
of a little over ninety six col
lars to each one. That was a lib
eral subscription for only twenty
six people u> make. And great
has been the result of that day’s
work in the Convention of 1*29,
That $2 500 secured the Pen
field legacy. So every man's
dollar was worth two at the Con
vention, for when the legacy and
the subscriptions were united the
Convention had in hand a fund
of $5 000 devoted to the edu
cation of ministers That
(K)0 was a God given boon to
the Baptists of Georgia. It
quickened into some degree of
life the zeal of our people for the
improvement and elevation of
our ministry. Lke a seed drop
ped into good ground, that fund
began to grow, and is still grow
ing—slowly, it may be, but it is
still growing—and we hope, ere
long, to see it expand into a mag
nificent endowment for Mercer
University.
But let us never forget that
the first design of the fund of
1*29 was to promote ministerial
education. This design is the
glory of our beloved University.
In spite of its limited resources,
during the first forty one years
of its life, counting from 1H3.3, it
educated a hundred and twenty
preachers. If to these be added
those who have been educated in
like manner during the succeed
ing twenty-two years, the num
ber would probably reach nearly
two hundred. Such are some of
the fruits of that little seed that
was planted in 1*29.
Now, brethren, the object of
these reminiscences is not merely
to gratify our sentimental feel
ings for things that are passed,
out it should be to gather, from
the example of our fathers, fuel
to kindle our zeal, in the same
great work, up to a llaming en
thusiasm. That fund which Pen
field started, as I have already
said, has been growing; but,
compared with the sublime end
we have in view, it is still far
short of what is needed. Mercer
University was consecrated by its
founders to theglory of our great
Redeemer, and she is now stretch
ing out her hands imploringly to
every Baptist in Georgia for help
to accomplish that glory. She is
asking you, now, for only SIOO,-
000. This would be only one
dollar apiece for 100,000 Bap
tists. Only see how easily it
could be done.
In my next I propose to give my
recollections of some of the good
men who w T ere at the Convention
of 1H29.
563 8. Pryor st., Atlanta.
Baptist Position Stated and Contrast
ed —Converted Church Member
ship.
BY (1. A. LOFTON, D D.
V.
This is one of the chief peculi
arities of Baptists—a peculiarity
which no other people ever as
sumed except in imitation of the
Baptists—and a peculiarity, with
minor exceptions, to which no
other denomination fully sub
scribes to-day. The Roman
Catholics originated the idea of
putting the world into the church
by infant baptism; and all who
have followed that idea, whether
in pure or modified form, have
to the extent of such following
adopted the same anti Christian
heresy. One of the pat argu
ments for the view’ of getting
people into the church whether
converted or not —and of saving
them in the bosom of the church —
is the perversion of Christ’s
parable of the sower, in which it
is claimed that the ‘ field,’’ which
is “the world,” is the church: and
that this even barr discipline, be
cause you are forbidden to pluck
up the tares lest you pluck up
the wheat! Let them grow to
gether in the church, they say,
until the harvest; and if the
preaching of the Gospel and the
means of grace do not convert
them, then leave it to Christ to
do the plucking up and separa
tion. No falser view or worse
Scriptural perversion could be
c mceived: and such has been, of
later years, the growth of this
view among some denominations,
that there is practically no bar
rier to the admission of uncon
verted members into the church,
and there is now no power to
eliminate such membership by
discipline, even if discipline were
desired.
In the first place, the church
of Christ is his local body—a
purely spiritual body by design;
and the Scriptures reveal the
implied, if not express, obliga
tion of the church, so far as it
can judge, to prevent the admis
sion of the unconverted into its
organic membership. A church
is a local body of “ saints,” bap
tized into Christ and into fellow
ship with his death: and, in the
very nature of our profession,
baptism and church fellowship
are a lie at the hands of an un
converted member. The church
is a body of baptized believers—
a fold of sheep; and to put, or
ganically, an unbeliever into the
church—a goat into the fold—is
to subvert the fundamental idea
and purpose of the local body or
church of Christ. Whether by
design, or indifference, su :h a
thing is done, it is in wicked vio
lence to the law of Christ and
absolutely opposed to the genius
of the New Testament institu
tions. In view of this solemn
fact every saint should be a sen
tinel at the door of the church to
keep out the organic intruder, to
the best of his knowledge and
belief. “Except a man be born
again from above he cannot
see the kingdom of heaven;’’ and
“except a man be born of water
and of the spirit he cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven.” What
ever the spiritual meaning of the
kingdr mos heaven here what
ever the significance of w’ater and
soirit the church is the concrete
embodiment and the constituent
expression of that kingdom; and
what is true as to the character
of the ideal and invisible must,
to the extent of our knowledge
and ability, be true of the real
and visible in the kingdom of
Christ on earth. I grant that it
is impossible to keep the goat
out of the sheep-fold sometimes,
but it is our duty, in the church,
to keep him out when we see his
horns and catch his breath.
In the second place, it is the
duty of the church to get the goat
out cf 1 lie sheep-fold when once
we find he has gotten in. Some
times it is our duty to turn out
the black sheep when he soils his
woo); and furthermore, it is our
duty to wait for his restoration
unil his wool gets white again
by repentance and recovery.
The incestuous man in 1 Cor. 5:
1 11; 2 Cor. 7:12, is a casein
poiit; and whatever is true of
this case, is true of everything
in the nature of this case. The
church is not to company with
disorderly members in its fellow
ship—with fornicators, or the
covetous, with idolaters, railers,
diunkards, extortioners, liars,
revellers, heretics and the like;
and if those who walk disorder
ly among the “saints” are to be
disciplined, and, if need be, ex
communicated, the unconverted
have no organic place whatever
in Christ’s spiritual kingdom as
in heaven so on earth. The
“pure church” has been the
watchword and the cry of protest
against Rome from the revolting
sects of the first Christian cen
turies dowm to this day of Bap
tist triumph and power in the
world; and W’e still lift this old
Anabaptist cry to this and all the
ages to come. The consolidated
annual report of the Baptist de
nomination reveals thousands of
exclusions from church fellow
ship every year, which other
wise swell the lists of those de
nominations which make no such
report ; and yet Baptist increase,
especially in this country, but
exemplifies the rapidity of devel
opment which normally springs
through the purifying process of
discipline.
It must be confessed that Bap
tists are not as strict in the ad
mission of members, and in the
discipline of the disorderly, as
they should be or once were. We
are far from the normal purity
which accompanies the New Tes
tament standard of watchcare
and discipline. We have copied
after the manner and methods of
others for the sake of numbers,
wealth and social influence; and
the nose-counting business has
led us to numeration instead of
salvation. Many of our churches
are morally beyond the power of
discipline; and adulterers, drunk
ards, extortioners, the covetous
and the like,sit unmolested in the
prominent pews of some of our
churches. The candidate for
baptism no longer undergoes ex
examination, or publicly tells
his experience. The pastor
simply says, “he’s all right,”
and in he goes; aid the matter
of discipline is now, in many
places, a lost art. Baptists can
not continue to flourish and pros
per under any general condition
of this kind. We cannot hold to
New’ Testament doctrine and
practice, and follow the example,
for any purpose, of others who
ignore God's Word as to methods
of admission and discipline in
the churches. The only way to
grow fast is to grow right; and
if we should utterly perish from
the earth, as a denomination, we
had better die upon the true
foundation, building “ gold,
silver, precious stones,” instead
of “wood, hay, stubble.” Ritu
alism and rationalism may live
and flourish as they do, with an
unregenerate membership in
their organization; but no denom
ination built upon the corner
stone of spirituality—a converted
and sanctified church member
ship-can live long under the
dead weight of unconverted ma
terial in the house of God.
The Baptist idea that regen
eration is essential to baptism
and church membership, and
that baptism and church mem
bership are not essential to sal
vation—is the spiritual corner
stone upon which no other peo
ple purely and only stand; and
in this position we are purely
Scriptural and logical. The
sheep-fold is not a goat-fold.
The church is not a morgue for
dead sinners to lie in state in and
for identification. A church may
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX : THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1898.
be a hospital for sickly saints,
but it is not a graveyard for the
interment of spiritual corpses
and monumental recognition.
The church is God’s building, the
Temple of the Holy Ghost, and
built after the pattern of Solo
mon’s temple, the material of
which was quarried from the
minds of sin and chiseled and
shaped and fitted by repentance
and faith for position in the
walls, before being put in—not
by being put in, nor after being
put in. The church is God’s
workshop where living men and
women spiritually know what
they are about, and how to work
God’s will on the inside of his
building; and there is no educa
tional process by which to incor
porate the unconverted journey
man or apprentice and make the
regenerate worker. He must be
born again—God’s “ workman
ship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God has
before ordained that he should
walk in them;” and when so made
by grace, through faith, and that
not of himself and not of works,
then he may enter the workshop
of God and go to work for him.
This analogy is carried out in
all the ideas and institutions of
men based upon common sense,
polity and social purity and
i-afety. A free mason is con
verted to masonry in his heart
before he is initiated into the
mysteries of masonry; and a man
must quit drinking, with a pur
pose to drink no more, before
joining a temperance society.
You do not put a scoundrel in
youi parlor to make a social or
nament of him; but he must be
come a social ornament in order
to enter your society and consort
with your family. The price of
virtue and manhood must be paid
for social recognition and recep
tion: and this is the analogy of
church relations which depend
upon regenerate life and charac
ter. Criminal reformation, in
dustrial schools and the like, take
in the bad or the vicious, and
train them by force into righ
teousness and industry; but no
body voluntarily seeks such re
lations for religious purposes,
nor for social and educational
advancement. Christians are
not. made in that way. The
church, like heaven, is not a re
formatory nor a penitentiary. It
is the corporate body of Christ —
a kingdom of priests and princes
—the family of God’s children—
the home of the saint and the
vineyard of God’s laborers, and
none can organically enter until
qualified. Any other theory of
church organization wotild be
utterly destructive of the spir
itual life and purposes of God’s
kingdom.
This Baptist, or New Testa
ment, idea (as contradistin
guished from the Roman Catho
lic or pedobaptist idea) of re
generate church membership,
does not forbid our personal or
congregational relationship and
contact with the unconverted
world. The church seeks to
convert the world and thus
bring it within the fold of Christ,
and hence the world is invited to
come to God’s house of worship,
hear the Gospel and partake of
the benefit of our public services.
We spread the Gospel feast con
tinually, and invite all men to
come and eat. Our hands are
extended to the sinner, the sick
and the unfortunate, and we try
to put our arms arourd the
masses of a lout humanity to
save the race. This does not
mean organic relationship of the
world to the church, nor of the
church to the world; and like a
vessel in the ocean, we are in the
world but not of it, unless, some
times—like the vessel, we leak
and let the world in unconverted.
The fact is, the only way to
reach the world is to keep the
world out of the church until it
is converted. Any church or
denomination that opens the
door to the world without con
version, no matter how it
preachesconversion, will get the
unconverted world into its mem
bership; and when the uncon
verted world gets into the church,
then the church gets into the
unconverted world. Alas, how
often we see this in the secular
worldliness of church members,
in the compromise of the pulpit
and the pew with the fashions
and fads of popular theology
and unsanctitied methods in
order to catch the big fish of so
ciety, or to raise money, or to
compete with other denomina
tions according to the style of
things up to date !
The Unity and Diversity of Chris
tianity.
BY J. H. HALL, D.D.
V.
OUTGOING CHURCH LIFE.
This life is in the outlying
fields pf service. It is life in re
sponse to surrounding claims
and calls. This life is multi
form. It has many hearts and
many hands. It goes out in
sympathy and ministrations to
every form of need. It enters
the field of the world with “God’s
remedy for sin,” and with hands
outstretched to all the ills that
sin has entailed. Hence the hu
mane, the benevolent, the relig-
ious institutions and agencies to
which Christianity gives rise.
Churches, like their divine
Lord, must “go about doing
good”— must “seek the lost,” and
“bind up the brcken-hearted.”
They must be-in touch with the
world’s misery, and minister to
it. There are three general de
partments of outward church
service: The humane, education
al and missionary— the bodies, the
minds and the souls of men.
These may be grouped under
the secular and spiritual fields of
service.
The secular service of church
life should not be overlooked, nor
underestimated. The temporal
is first in order, if not in impor
tance. The bodies of men, for
the present, come before their
souls. Neglect one, and you can
not reach the other. Indeed, the
body—its raiment and food—is
the avenue of the soul.
The outgoing service of church
es is to the bodies of men. This
ministry appears among the an
cientstatutes of God: “The poor
shall never cease out of the land;
therefore, thou shall open thine
hand wide unto thy brother to
thy poor, and to thy needy, in
thy land.” The poor were a
providential provision to affjrd
an ever open field to Hebrew be
neficence. The Author of Chris
tianity ministered to the body,
“healing all manner of sickness
and all manner of disease among
the people.” One of the duties
given special emphasis by the
a 'ostles, is: “Remember the
poor.” The order of service in
the commission of the seventy,
as given by Luke, is significant:
“Into whatever city je enter —
heal the sick that are therein, and
say unto them, the kingdom of
God is nigh unto you.” They
were first to heal the sick.
Through the body they would
reach the soul-. Neglect their
physical needs, and men will not
believe that you care for their
souls. This service of Chris
tianity to temporal need and suf
fering, is made conspicuous in
the judgment day . “I was an
hungered, and ye gave me meat;
I was thirsty and ye gave me
drink; I was a stranger and ye
took me in; naked, and ye clothed
me; I was sick and ye visited me;
I was in prison, and ye came unto
me.” Tnese are all little things,
and temporal things, yet how il
lustrious in that day!
Also,?the outgoing secular ser
vice of the churches is to the
mind. It has needs, like the
body; then it must be helped.
Take the mind upon the broad
ground of its condition and office.
Whai is its conuwon? How is it
given us? Without preparation,
without equipment. What is its
office? It is momentous. To
judge in the questions of life—
the vital, complex, difficult ques
tions of this life. It is topreside
in the more profound issues of
the soul—the spiritual issues of
life, and death, and destiny. This
power, as given, is like an un
gainly, ignorant stripling, yet it
is clothed in ermine, with august
balances in its hands! Christian
ity sees this, and seeing it, re
sponds by entering the field of
mental culture.
Education is the development
and training of this mental strip
ling—fitting him for work. Is it
right to draw out and use the
muscles of the arm? Is it less
right to draw out and use the
higher ethereal muscles of the
mind? If it is right to train the
hands to work, is it less a duty
to train the mind to work? If
the finger is to be skilled, should
the thought be less an artisan?
Os course, if the body ought to
work, the head ought to; and if
the body is trained for work, the
head ought to be trained. It is,
at last, a question of mental em
ployment or indolence-—a ques
tion of mental vagrancy. For
the untrained is the idle mind.
This training and equipment in
education is a high service. And
it is a spurious Christianity that
is too holy, too spiritual to touch
it. Christianity, though pre-em
inently spiritual in its mission,
is yet bound to clothe the naked,
and feed the hungry body. It
cannot be less bound to clothe
the naked and feed the hungry
mind. Ah, may there not be
some Milton, Gladstone or Spur
geon lying in the rough about us?
Some ragged mind struggling
with dreams of coming destiny?
May there not be boys and girls
of superb possibilities, and these
all going to waste,to weeds, right
under the shadow of our church
es ! The time will come when the
churches will awake to both the
opportunity and responsibility of
this high service.
The outgoing spiritual service
of the churches. This is to the
souls of men. It is in its mission
ary work at home and abroad.
The temporal work considered
above, while important, is second
ary and incidental. The salva
tion of the souls of men is the
chief, direct, supreme mission of
Christianity.
This was the exalted mission
of the Author of Christianity.
He said: “The Lord hath an
ointed me to preach good tidings
to the meek: he hath sent me to
bind up the broken-hearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to
them that are bound. ” He said:
“The Son of man is come to seek
and to save that which was 1< st."
He sets the same high object be
fore commissioned discipleship
for its guidance and inspiration:
“Thus it is written, and thus it
behooved Christ to suffer, and to
rise from the dead ihe third
day, that repentance and remis
sion of sins should be preached
in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem.” This
work is imposed on the churches.
To the church at Antioch, “the
Holy Ghost said, separate me
Barnabas and Saul for the work
whereuuto I have called them.”
Churches are not organized sole
ly for their own edification, nor
for the restricted service of sav
ing souls around them. Confine
their life and labors to these lim
ited spheres, and spiritual dry
rot, decay and death will follow.
A church is a collection of mis
sionaries, of hearts commissioned
to tell “what the Lord hath done
for them.” They combine to be
helpful to one another in the
proclamation of the good news.
An association is a union of com
missic red churches - it is church
es comuiiiing vogeiher to intensi
fy zeal and to concentrate efforts
upon the destitute regions of sin.
A convention is a larger agency
—a combination of churches and
associations to more effectually
carry out the one God given com
mission to evangelize the world
And all these agencies, in mem
bers, churches, associations and
conventions, are to continue their
separate and combined efforts till
the Gospel is planted in all lands.
Yes, they must continue till the
earth, so long smitten by sin and
covered with darkness, shall be
illumined with the glory of
God, and the long expected jubi
lee of faith and of the ages shall
come, when “ihe saints of the
Most High shall take the king
dom, and possess the kingdom
forever, even forever and ever ”
Let us remember, meanwhile,
that it is true A«re, here in spiri’-
ual life, as in all other spheres—
made true by the very constitu
tion of our natures —that
“Self ease is pain ; the only rest
Is labor for a worthy end—
A toil that gains with what it yields,
And scatters to its own increase;
And hears whilt* sowing outward fields,
The harvest song of inward peace.”
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The Horrors of Armenia: The story
of an eye-witness By William Wil
lard Howard. Published by the Ar
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York. 10 cents.
The publishers, in a note, tell us that
Mr. Howard has twice visited Armenia,
once as a newspaper correspondent and
once as Relief Commissioner. "Tbe
Turkish government forbade him to
enter the country, and put a price on
his head: the Kurds shot at him. ban
dits captured him, and other servants of
the Sultan made his journey perilous ”
“His testimony,” based on personal ob
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of affairs.” This book but repeats in
all jfctheir awful horror the stories of
crime and outrage which have, alas, be
come so common in reports from Arme
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because of the horribleness of the pict
ures and because he is conscious of help
lessness. Mr. Howard’s remedy is to re
move the Armenians.
What is Worth While ? By Anna
Robertson Brown. T. Y. Crowell &
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This dainty little volume contains a
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Her conclusion is that “we may let go
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Some Modern Substitutes for
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Thos. Whittaker, New York. Price
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In a brief and clear way the author
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The claims of each is exhausted and the
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Dr. Shinn does this well.
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These are sermons written each week
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This is after the manner of Dr. Mey-
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Containing his presentation of the blest ■
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Words of Help for Christian Girls, are
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Story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and The
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NERVOUSNESS
Is the Wail of the
Nerves for Food.
People with Weak, Flabby Nerves are the Ones who
Suffer. They may be Relieved by Building up
their Nerves with a Nourishing Nerve Food.
An Interesting Interview with A Prominent Phy
sician and a Case in Point Cited.
From the Journal, Kirksville, Mo.
" What is this modern disease called ner
vous prostration ?”
If this question had been asked a physi
cian in our grandfathers’ time, he coaid not
have answered it. The disease war not
known then. It is new, and is a product of
our American hustle and worry. Stater’ in
brief, nervous prostration is a complete col
lapse of the nervous system. It is brought
on by overwork, worry or disease, and the
patient can only be cured by rest and a
proper feeding of the nerves.
Notice the dragged-ont appearance of the
average mother. She can ses-cely dragher
selfaround; her nerves and strength have
been overtaxed; she has no reserve force.
She keeps up, but it is at the t xpense of her [
nervous system. Finally she is overcome; .
she can work no more, her n< -ves are ex- .
hausted; the cares and worries of her life !
have gotten the better of her, and it will re
quire weeks and months to recover.
Thoughtless people say: “ How foolish to
work so hard and how foolish to worry.”
That is very well, but how many thousands
of mothers there are who have burdens
enough for a score, and whose poor, weak
little bodies endure uncomplainingly all tbe
burdens until finally they have to stop and
it is a question if they have not waited too
long.
In cases of this kind there is a food within
the reach of all, and it is always effective.
It is to the weakened nerves what bread and
beef are to the muscular system. It supplies
them all the properties necessary to build
them up, strengthen them and restore them
to a vigorous, healthy condition. This new
food is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People. If space permitted, we could fill
pages of this paper with the heartfelt test i- I
monials of thousands who have found in
these pills their salvation. We only give
one, but later others will be published that
will be read with much interest by anyone
suffering with weakened nerves as a result of
the season or otherwise.
No more deplorable condition of the hu
man body can be conceived than that of
nervous prostration, when every nerve in the
system seems to vie with the others to make
you miserable, when even the sunshine irri
tates you, when the happy prattle of thechild
distracts the loving parent, when life is
haunted bv a constant foreboding, when the
light of life seems to turn to a smoking,
smouldering flame of torture —that’s part of
nervous prostration, just a phase of this
many-sided disease. As its grasp upon you
strengthens you lose, perhaps, the power to
walk, to talk, to think, even the power to
love. Death would be welcome, but alas! it
comes not until the cup of suffering is full to
overflowing. Such has been the experience
of Mr. Henry Gehrke, whose story is best
told in his own words.
To show the results of this nerve food on a
special case, to prove the points above made,
our reporter made the following interview: —
Henry Gehrke is a thrifty and prosperous
German farmer living four miles south of
Bullion, in tiiis (Adair) county, Mo Mr.
Gehrke has a valuable farm and he has been
a resident of the county for years. He is very
well-known hereabouts and well respected
wherever he is know n. Last week a reporter
of the Journal stopped at Mr. Gehrke’s and
while there became much interested in Mrs.
Gehrke’s account of the benefit she had not
long since experienced from the use of Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. She
said she wanted everybody to know what a
great medicine these pills are, but as so many
people are praising them now-a-days, she
modestly doubted whether her testimony
could add anything to what others had al-
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Never speak when your silence
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when your speaking will do more.
The only thing about some
churches that tells which way
they are aiming, is the steeple.
There is nothing so strong or
safe in any emergency of life as
the simple truth. — Dickens.
ready said of them. Iler only reason for
talking for publication about Pink Pills wa»
that the people of Adair and neiglilxtring
counties might be convinced, if any doubted,
that oft-published testimonial* concerning.
Pink Pills were genuine statements from the
lips of persons who have i>een benefited by
the use of them. Speaking of iter own in
teresting experience, Mrs. Gehrke said :
“ A little over a year ago 1 was completely
broken down. I had been taking medicine
from a doctor but grew worse and worse un
til I could scarcely go about at all. The
least exertion or the mere bending of my
body would cause me to have smothering
spells, and the suffering was terrible. I
thought it was caused by my heart. When
everything else had failed to relieve me and
I had given up all hopes of ever being any
i thing but a helpless invalid, I chanced to
read some testimonials in the Farm, Field
i and Fireside, also in the Chicago Inter-Ocean
iand tbe suffering of the people who made
the statements was so nearly like the suffer
ing I had endured that when I read that they
were so greatly benefited by the use of Dr.
Williams’ Pink I ills for Pale People, I did
not hesitate to go at once and purchase two
boxes. I tool; them according to directions
and before the first box was used I felt a good
bit better. Really the first dqse convinced
me that it was a great remedy. Before the
two boxes were used up I sent my husband
after three more boxes, so I would not be
without them. When I had used these
three boxes I felt like a different woman and
thought I was almost cured.
“Since that time I have been taking then*
whenever I began to feel badly. When I
Itegan taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People, ! weighed only 113 poundsand
after I had been using the medicine for about
six months I weighed 122 pounds. I have
had a good appetite ever since I commenced
taking Pink Pills and instead of mincing
along, picking such food as I could eat even
with an effort, I eat most anything that
conies on the table. lam not the invalid I
was. Ido not have to be waited upon now
as if I was a helpless child, but I work all
the time, doing the housework and ironing
and working tn the garden without that
dreadful feeling which comes over a person
when they are afraid they are going to have
one of those spells that I used to have.
“ Work don’t hurt me any more. I hon
estly believe that had it not been for Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills I would now be in my
grave. I still have what the doctor calls bil
ious colic but the Pink Pills have made me
much better and the spells are not so frequent
and are nothing like ns painful as before I be
gan to use them. I would not be without the
Pink Pills for that disease alone under any
circumstances to say nothing of the other dis
eases for which they are especially recom
mended. I taKe pleasure in telling my neigh
bors the benefits I have received from Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and
know of several who have taken my advice
and have been greatly benefited by them.’'
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all the el«nents necessary
to give new life and richness to the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing-specific for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’
danee,sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv
ous headache, the after effect of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, all forms of weakness either in
male or female, and all diseases resulting
from vitiated humors in the blood. Pink
Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sen*
post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box,
or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold
in bulk or bv tie 100) by addressing Dr.
Williams’ Mcuidae Company, Schenec
tady, N.Y.