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Hon. C. Edwards Lester,
Late U. S. Consul to Italy,
author of "The Glory and
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1887.
TABERNACLE SERMON.
Dr. Talmage’s Sunday Morning
Discoursa.
“RECREATIONS, GOOD AND BAD’’
Bkookt.yn, December 18.—[Special.]—At
the Tabernacle this morning the whole con
gregation sang the hymn beginning:
"The hill of Zion yields
A ihousand saertd sweets
B■< we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streett-.' 1
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.,
preached on ‘‘Recreations, Good and Bad,’’
two texts: I Corinthians, chapter 7, verso 31,
“They that use this world, as not abusing it,”
and Judges, chapter 10, verse 25, “And it camo
to pass, when their hearts were merry, that
they said, ‘Call for Sampson, that he may
make us sport.’ And they called for Samson
out of the prison house, and he made them
sport.” Dr. Talmage said:
Wc arc entering the gayest season of the
year. The wiuter opens before us the gates of
a thousand amusements, some of them good
and some bad, One of my texts will show
you that amusements may bo destructive, my
other text will show you that amusements
may be under the Divine blessing and direc
tion.
There were three thousand people assembled
in the temple of Dragon. They had assem
bled to make sport of eyeless Samson. They
were ready for the entertainment. They be
gan to clap and pound impatient for the amuse
ment to begin, and they cried, “Fetch him
out ! Fetch him out!” Yonder, 1 see the
blind old giant coming, led by the band of a
child into the very midst of the temple. At
first appearance there goes up a shout of
laughter and derision. The blind old giant
pretends he. is tired, and wants to rest himself
against the pillars of the house;
so ho says to the lad who leads him,
“Show me where the main pillars are.” The
lad does so. Thou the strong man puts his
right hand on one pillar and his left hand bn
another pillar, and, with the mightiest push
that mortal ever made, throw s himself for
ward until the whole house comes down in a
thunderous crash, grinding the audience like
grapes in a wino press. “And so it came to
pass, when their hearts were merry, that they
said, call |for JSamson, that ho may make us
sport. And they Icalled for Samson outofthe
prison house; and no made them sport.”
In other words: There are amusements that
are destructive, and bring down disaster and
death upon the beads of those who practice
them. While they laugh and cheer, they die.
The three thousand who perished that day in
Gaza are as nothing compared with the tens of
thousands who have been destroyed by sinful
amusements.
But the other text I have read implies that
there is a lawful use of the world as well as an
unlawful abuse of it, and the difference be
tween the man Christian and the man un-
Christian is, that in the former case the man
masters the world, while in the latter case the
world masters him. For whom did God make
this grand and beautiful world? For whom
this wonderful expenditure of color, this
gracefulness of line, this mosaic of the ground,
this frescojof the sky,this glowing fruitage of the
orchard ujid vineyard, this full orchestra of
the tempt t, in which the tree branches flute
and the winds trumpet, and the thunders
drum, and all the splendors of the earth and
sky come clashing their cymbals. For whom
did God spring the arched bridge of colors
resting upon the buttresses of broken storm
cloud ? For whom did ho gather the uphol
stery of fire around the window of the setting
sun? For all men, but more especially for his
own dear children.
If you build a largo man
sion, and spread a great
feast after it to celebrate the completion of the
structure, do you allow strangers to come in
and occupy the place while you thrust your
own children in the kitchen or the barn or the
fields? Oh no, y You say, “I am very' glad to
See strangers in my mansion, but my own sons
and daughters shall have the tirst right there.”
Now, God has built this grand mansion of a
world, and lie has spread a glorious feast in it;
and while those who are strangers to his grace
may come in, I think that God especially in
tends to give the advantage to his own chil
dren, those who are the sons and the daughters
of the Lord Almighty, those who through
grace can look up and say:
“Abba, Father.” You can not make
me believe that God gives more advantages to
the world than he gives to the church bought
by His own blood. If, therefore, people of the
world have looked with dolorous sympathy
upon those who make profession of religion,
and have said, “Those new converts are going
down into privation and into hardship. AVhy
did not they tarry a little|longer in the world,
and have some oi its enjoyments and amuse
ments and recreations?” 1 say to such men of
the world, “You are greatly mistaken,” and
before I got through I will show that those
people who stay out of the kingdom of God
nave the hardships and self-denials, while those
who conic iu have the joys and the satisfac
tions.
This morning, in the name of the King of
heaven ami earth. I servo a writ of ejection
upon all tlie sinful and polluted who have
squatted on the domain of earthly pleasures
as though it belonged totheni, while Iclaim, in
behalf of the good and the pure and the true,
the eternal inheritance which God has given
them.
Hitherto, Christian philanthropists, clerical
ami lay, have busied themselves
chiefly iu denouncing sinful recrea
tions; but 1 feel we have no
right to stand before men and women in whose
hearts there is a desire for recreation amount
ing to positive necessity, denouncing this aud
that and the other thing, when we do not pro
pt so to give them something better. God help
ing me this morning, and with reference to my
last account, 1 shall < liter upon a sphere not
usual in sermonizing, but a subject which 1
think ou ;lit to be presented at this time. 1
propose now to lay before yon some of the
recreations which are not only innoveiit, but
pos.tivtlv helpful and advantageous.
In the first place. 1 commend, among indoor
recreations, music, viwal and instrumental.
Among the first things created was the bird, so
that the earth might have musio nt the start.
This world, w hieli began witli so sweet a sere
nade, i- liunlly to Is l demolished amidst the
ringing blast of the archangel's trumpet, so
that as th. ro was music at the start, there
.shall bo music nt the close. While this
heavenly art has often been dragged into the
uses oi superstition and dissinntion, wo all
know it may be the means oi high moral cul
ture- (>li, it is a grand tiling to have our
children brought np amid-t the uml of cul
tured voices and amidst the melody e.f musical
instruments There is in this art
an imh s. ribable fas. illation for the household.
Let all th. so l.riiiilivs who have the means to
afford it, have tlutc or harp, er piano or organ.
As soon as the band is largo enough to com
pass the keys, teach it how to pick out the
melody. Let all the young men try this heav
enly art upon their nature. Those who have
gone into it fully have found in it illimitable
recreate n and amusement. Park days, stormy
night", s, ason of sickness, business disasters,
w ill do little toward depressing the soul which
can gallop over musical keys or soar in jubi
lant lay. it will cure pain. It will'rest
fatigue. It w ill quell passion. It will revive
health. It will reclaim dissipation. It will
strengthen the immortal soul. In the battle
of Waterloo, Wellington saw that the High
landers were falling back: lie said: “What
is the matter there?” Uo was told that the
band of music had ceased playinjr, and ho
ciilh .1 up the piners aud ordered them to
strike up nn Inspiriting air; lyni no sooner
did tlies 'trike the air than the Highlanders
were rallied, and helped to win the dav. Ob,
ye Who have been routed in the conflicts of
life, try bv the force of music to rally your
Sea:t. n d 1 alt ih-ns.
lam glad to know that In our great cities
there is hardly a night iu which there are not
concerts, where vG;h the best musical instru
ments and ti e sweetest voices, people may
find entertainment. I’atronize such eutertain
im nts win n they are afforded you. Be.v sea
son ticket", it you can, for the “ITitlhar
luonic” and the 'Handel ami Haydn n tocie
ties. Feel that the dollar and a half or two
dollars that wu spend for the purpose of hear
ing an artist play yr sing is a profitable invest
ment. l.< ; your Steinway halls and academies
oi inns.i r a with the u. claniatiou of appre
ciative audiences assembled at the concert Or
the ouitor.o.
■Still further: I commend, as worthy of their
support, the gymnasium. This institution is
I gaiuiug in favor every year, ami 1 know of
I nothing more free from dissipation, or more
; calculated to reeujiorate tiio jdiysic: ! pud m n
tal energies. While there are a good many'
people who have employed this institution,
there are a vast number who arc ignorant of
its cxccllench s. There are men wiili cramped
chests and weak sides and despondent spirits
wiio, through the gymnasium, might be rous
ed up to exbuberanco and exhilaration of
. life. There are many Christian people de
spondent from year to year, who might,
through such an institution, be benefitted in
their spiritual relations. There are Christian
people who seem to think that it is a goad sign
to be poorly; and because Richard Baxter and
Robert Hall were invalids, they think that by
the same sickliness they may come to the same
grandeur of character. I want to tell the
Christian people of my congregation that God
will hold you responsible for your invalidism
if it is your fault, and when through right ex
ercise and prudence you might be athletic and
well. The effect of the body on the soul you
acknowledge. Put a man of mild disposition
upon the animal diet of which the Indian pat
takes, and in a little while the blood will
change its chemical proportions. It w ill be
come like unto the blood of the lion or the
tiger or the bear, while his disposition will
change, and become fierce, cruel and unrelent
ing. The body has a powerful effect upon the
soul
There are good people whose ideas of heaven
are all shut out with clouds of tobacco smoke.
There are people who dare to shatter the
physical vase iu which God has put the jewel
of eternity. There arc men with great lit arts
and intellects in bodies worn out by their own
neglects—magnificent machinery capable of
propelling a Great Eastern across the Atlantic,
yet fastened in a rickety North River pro
peller. Martin Luther was so mighty for God,
tirst, because lie had a noble soul, and, sec
ondly, because he had a muscular development
which would have enabled him to thrash any
five of his persecutors, if it had been Chris
tian so to do. i'Jijsical development which
merely shows itself in fabulous lifting or iu
perilous rope-w alking, or in pugilistic encoun
ter, excites only our contempt; but we confess
to great admiration for the man who lias a
great soul in an athletic body, every nerve,mus
cle and bone of which is consecrated to right
uses. Oh, it seems to mo outrageous that
men, through neglect, should allow their phys
ical health to go down beyond repair. A ship
which ought, with all sail set and every man
at iris post, to bo carrying a rich cargo for
eternity, employing all its men in stopping up
leakages! When you may, through the gym
nasium, work off your spleen and querulous
ness and one-half of your physical and mental
ailments, do not turn your back upon such a
grand medicament.
Still further: I commend to you a large
class of parlor games and recreations. There
is away of making our homes a hundred-fold
more attractive than they are now. Those pa
rents cannot expect to keep their children
away from outside dissipations unless they
make the domestic circle blighter than any
thing they can find outside of it. Donot, then,
sit in your home surly and unsympathetic, and
with a half-condemnatory look, because of the
sportfnlness of yourchildren. You wore young
once yourself; let your children be young. Be
cause your eyes are dim and your ankles are
stiff, do not denounce sportfulness in those upon
whose eyes there is the first lustre, and in
whoso foot there is the bounding joy of robust
health. I thank God that in our drawing
rooms and in our parlors there are innumerable
games and sports which have not upon them
the least taint of iniquity. Light up all your
homes with innocent hilarities. Do not sit
down with the rheumatism, wondering how
children can go on so. Rather thank God
that their hearts are so light, and their
laughter is so free, and that theirs cheeks are
so ruddy, and their expectations are so radiant.
The night will come soon enough, and the
heart-break, and the pang, and the desolation
—it will come soon enough forthodear child
ren. But when the storm actually clouds the
sky, it will be time enough for
you to haul out your reef tackles.
Carry, then, into your own homes, not only
the innocent sports and games which are the
inventions of our own day, but the games
which come down with’.the sportfulness of all
the past ages—chess and charades, and tab
leaux and battledore and calisthenics and
lawn-tenuis, and all those amusements which
the young people of our homes know so well
how to contrive. Then there will be the par
lor socialities—groups of people assembled in
your homes, with wit and mimicry and jovial
ity, filling the room with joy from door to
mantel, and from the carpet’ to the ceiling.
Oh, is there any exhilaration like a score of
genial souls in one room, each one adding a
contribution of his own individual merriment
to the aggregation of general hilarity?
Suppose you want to go abroad in ’ the city,
then you will find the panorama and the art
galleries and the exquisite collections of pic
tures. You will find the Metropolitan museum
and the historical society rooms full of rare
curiosities, and scores of places which can
stand plainly the test of wh it is right and
wrong in amusements. Yon will find the
lecturing hall, which lias been honored by the
names of Agassiz, in natural history, Doremus
in chemistry, Boynton in geology, Mitchell in
astronomy, John B. Gough in moral reform,
and scores and hundreds of men who have
poured their wit and genius and ingenuity
through that particular channel upon the
hearts and consciences ami imaginations of
man, setting this country fifty years farther in
advance tl.au it would have been without the
lecture platform.
I rejoice, in the popularization of outdoor
sports. 1 hail the croquet ground and the fish
erman’s rod, and the sportsman's gun. In
our cities life is so unhealthy and unnatual
that when a census-taker represents a city as
having four hundred thousand inhabitants,
there are only two hundred thousand, since
it takes at least two men to amount to one
man, so depleting and unnerving, and exhaust
ing is this metropolitan life. AYo want more
fresh air, more sunlight, more of the abandon
of field-sports. 1 cry out for it in behalf of
the church of God as well as in behalf of sec
ular interests. I wish that this winter our
ponds and our rivers and our Capitoline
grounds might bo all aquako with the heel aud
the shout of the swift skater. I
wish that when ilie warm weather comes,
the graceful oar might dip the stream, and the
evening-tide be resonant with boatman's song,
the bright prow splitting tlie crystalline bil
low. AVe shall have the smooth and grassy
lawn, and we will call out people of all occu
pations and professions, and ask them to join
in the ball-i>!ayer’s sport. You will come back
from these outdoor exercises uml recreations
with strength in jour arm, and color hi your
cheek,.mid u flash iu your eye, mid courage in
your heart. In this great battle that is open
ing against the kingdom of darkness we want
not onlj' the consecrated soul, but a strong arm
mid stout lungs and mighty muscle. 1 bless
God that there mo so many le reations that
have not on them mix’ taint of iniquity; recre
ations in which we imiy engage for the
strengthening of the body, for the clearing of
tiw intellect, for the illumination of the soul.
There is still another form of recreation
which I commend to yen, and that is the
pleasure of doing good. 1 have seen young
men, weak ami cro"s and sour mid repelling in
their disposition, who by one heavenly touch
have w kened up mid become blessed mid
buoyant, the ground under their feet mid the
skx o\vr tlwir heads breaking forth into music.
' Oh. ' says some young man in the house t.r
day. "1 shouhl like that recreation above all
others, but I have not the means.'’ My dear
brother, let us take an account of stock this
m.cuing. You have a largo estate, if you only
realize it. Two hands. Two feet. You will
have, perhaps, during the next year at least
ten dollars tor charitable contribution. Aon
will have twenty-tive bundled cheerful looks,
if you want to employ them. You will have
five thousand ph asant words, if you want to
spenkt! a iii. Now what an amount tli.it is to
start witnl
A on go out to norrow morning and you see a
case of real destitution bv the wayside. A'ou
give him two cents. The blind man hears tlie
pennies rattle in h - hat. mid he says: "Thank
you, sir; God bless yon.” You pass down the
street, trying to look indifferent; but you
feel from the very depth of your
soul a profound sntisiaetion that you made
that man happy. You go on still farther, and
flnd a po r boy with .4 wheelburrow, tty ing to
get it up on tlie Curbstone. Ho fails in’ihe at
tempt. You say, 'Stand back, my lad; let
tne try.” You push it up on the curbstone for
him, a;d pass on. He wonders who that well
dressed man was that helped him. You did
a kindmss to the la v. but you did a great joy
to your <wu soul. Yod will not get over it ail
the week.
On the street, tomorrow morning, yon will
see a stok man passing along. “Ah.” you sav,
"what Ido to make this man happy ? lie
' certainly does not want money : ho Is not poor,
i but he is sick.” Give him one of
those twenty-five hundred cheerful looks that
; yon have garnered up for the whole year.
Look joy and hopefulness into bls soul. Itwill
■; thrill him through, ami there will be a reaction
. upon your own soul. Going a little farther on,
| you will come to tho store of a friend who is
i embarrassed in business matters. You will go
in and say, “AVhat a line store you have! I
think business will brighten up, and you will
I have more custom after a while. I think there
is coming a great prosperity to all the
I country. Good morning.” You pass out.
You have helped that young man, and you have
helped yourself. And that night you go home;
you sit by the tire, you talk a little, you sing a
little, you laugh a little; you say, “J really
don’t know what is the matter with me. I
never felt so splendidly in my life.” I will
tell you what is the mutter with yon. A r ou
spent only two cents out of the ten dollars;
you have contributed one out of twety-five
hundred cheerful looks; you have given" ten,
fifteen or twenty of the five
thousand pleasant words you are
going to speak during the year; you have,
with your own hands, helped the" boy with
the wheelbarrow, and you feel in body, mind
and soul the thrill of that recreation. AVliich
do yon think was the happier—Colonel Gard
iner, who sat with his elbow on a table spread
with all extravagant viands, looking off at a
dog on the rug, say ing, “How I would like to
change places with him; Ibe the dog and ho
be Colonel Gardiner;” or choose two Moravian
missionaries who wanted to go into the laza
retto for tlie sake of attending the sick, and
they were told, “If you go in there, you will
never come out. AVe never allow any one to
come out, for lie would bring the contagion.”
Then they made their wills and went
in, first to help the sick, and then
to die. AVhich was the happier—
Colonel Gardiner, or the Moravian missiona
ries dying for others? AVas it all sacrifice
when the missionaries wanted to bring the
gospel to the negroes at the Barbadoes, and,
being denied the privilege, sold themselves
into slavery, standing side by side, and lying
side by side down in the very ditch of suffer
ing, in order that they might bring those
men up to life and God and heaven? Oh,
there is a thrill in the joy of doing good! It
is the most magnificent recreation to which
a man ever puts his hand or his bead or his
heart.
But, before closing, I want to impress upon
yon that mere secular entertainments are
uot'a tit foundation for your soul to build on.
I was reading of a woman who had gone all
the rounds of sinful amusement, and she came
to die. She said, “I will die tonight at six
o’clock.” “Oh,” they said, “I guess not, you
don’t seem to be sick.” “I shall die at six
o'clock, and my soul will be lost. I know it
will be lost. I have sinned away my day of
grace.” The noon came. They desired to
seek religious counsel.
“Oh,” she said, “it is of no use. My day is
gone. I have been all|the rounds of worldly
pleasures, and it is to late. I shall die tonight
at six o’clock.” The day wore away, and it
came to four o’clock, and to five o’clock, and
she cried out at five o’clock, “Destroyed spir
its, ye shall not have me yet; it is not six, it
is not six!” The moments went by, and the
shadow began to gather, and the clock struck
six; and while it was striking her soul went]
AVhat hour God will call for us I do not know
—whether six tonight, or three o’clock,
this afternoon, |or at one o’clock, or at
this moment. Sitting where you are, falling
forward, or standing where you are, dropping
down, where would you go to?
But our hour for adjourning is already come,
and the last hour of our life will soon be here,
and from that hour wo will review this day’s
proceedings. It will be a solemn hour. If
from our death-pillow we have to look back
and see a life spent in sinful amusement, there
will be a dart tnat will strike through our soul
sharper than the dagger with which Virginius
slew his child. The memory of the past will
make us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities
and rioting through which wc have passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg Mer
rillies. Death, the old Shylock, will demand,
and take, the remaining pound of flesh and
the remaining drop of blood; and upon our
last opportunity for repentance, and our last
chance for heaven, the curtain will forever
drop.
L 1 . ■
Rheumatism
We doubt if there is, or can be, a specific
remedy for rheumatism; but thousands who
have suffered its pains have been greatly ben
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11 There is no other disease that comes so near being a universal one in this
I xj T-A 11 j 1 country as catarrh. The victims of it are very ignorant of its cause,
nature or remedy. A little enlightenment on the subject will prove ti
blessing to the many sufferers from it. For this purpose it is needful to know something of the
anatomy and physiology of the mucous membrane, for this is the scat of the disease.
The most familiar example of the mucous membrane is the inside of the lips, cheeks, throat
and nostrils. In these situations it may be quite closely examined by anyone. It is seen to be
smooth, shining, of a pink color, and is moist. From these visible locations the membrane
extends through the whole of the respiratory or breathing organs, and of the digestive organs;
and it lines every organ which has an opening to the outside world. In its anatomy' it bears ai
strong analogy to the skin. In some lower order of animals either of these membranes may be
made to do the office of the other. The animal may be turned wrong side out, in which case
the skin and lining cf the stomach have changed places, and the animal continues to live.
One office of this membrane is to exude from its myriads of minute glands a bland, trans
parent, unctuous fluid. This is called mucus, and it keeps the membrane in a condition to
perform its many other functions properly. There are many causes operating to set up conges*
tion, swelling and inflammation in this membrane. When it becomes inflamed the quality and
quantity of the normal mucus is immediately changed. A good illustration of this is an acuto
attack of influenza, “cold in the head,” which needs no description. There are many stages
and degrees of this affection, and all are properly named Catabrh.
It may cause severe pain in the head, face, ears, throat, chest and elsewhere. The effects
aro very annoying to its victim, and at times the sufferer becomes disgustingly offensive to his
companions. One characteristic of this disease is the obstinacy with which it resists the best
directed and even successful treatment. The number of M. D.’s who can boast of having
cubed a single case of catarrh is humiliatingly small. Hence have sprung up a little army o£
“Catarrh Specialists.” Sometimes these succeed in partially drying up the profuse discharge,
and call it a cure. But the disease is a strictly constitutional one, aud hence cannot he cured
by the application of merely local treatment. i.
The Compound Oxygen is the only known remedial agent that will cure Catarrh with
commendable promptness. There are two features of tho cure of Catarrh by this treatment,.
which should commend it to the enlightened attention of its victims: First—The whole con
stitutional health is being improved and established at the same time. Second—The system
being thus put into a state of integrity, it remains there, and the cure is therefore permanent.
Alma', Neb., April 6,1887. is going to use the Compound Oxygen in his prac
, tice. He tells me it it will cure such a case of catarrh
“Six months ago today I commenced the use oi a as j ie treated in my little daughter for two years
Home Treatment of C >mj ound Oxygen, which, as I without success, there is certainly' virtue in it.
wrote you in April, I expected to take at least one “Hon. H. C. Giuffith.”
year to get well, if ever. lam about as well now as
a man of sixty-two years of age could be expected
to be, after suffering for twenty years. lam entirely "From 1878 to June, 18 : 3,1 was troubled more or
cured, o/ Catarrh; pain in spine; bowels regular; appetite less with catarrh. During those years I tried several
improved. Before using it I seldom ate more than remedies, but from them I received no permanent
one meal a day, and never any breakfast for some suffered
years, and sleep was out of the question, except about throat, hoarseness and catarrhal fever. At times I
one night in three for the last eighteen years. Since in- could not speak publicly, because of hoarseness and.
haling I have not lost a half dozen nights'sleep in six coughing. Alarmed at my condition, I sought A
months, and none in fire and a half months
"After my daughter (nine years of age) and I had my hoarseness and sore throat were gone.andmy
used the Treatment two months, m each case catarrh general health began to improve at onoe. At the
was cured, and we have had no symptoms of it yet. cn d O s three months, when I had finished the first
She wus afflicted with Chronic Catarrh of two years treatment, the catarrh was gone. I have not been
standing, having taken a severe cold while having especially troubled with catarrh since. I regard
the measles. She complained of her head, blowing your Treatment by inhalation as a wonderfnl <ZZs
chunks from her nostrils; comjlainid of soreness covert; of science, and a blessing to suffering htu
over her whole body, so much so that she would cry mahity. Rev. A. A. Johnson
when but slightly squeezed; subject to chills; was so “President of Wesleyan College,
diseased we gravely feared we would not raise her. "Fort Worth, Tex: s Nov 2, 1885.”
1 had tried the most skilled physicians, and other
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benefit. She is going to school for the last week;
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complains of n i soreness. We are rejoiced as well June 16, I>BG. ’f
as i 8 onished, as are all our friends, in two months From the Rev. Homer A. King, Evangelist, and
to have accomplished with Drs. Starkey & I a en’s investor of the King Bieyele.
Treatment what doctors and advertised nostrums of Di s. Starkey & I’alen— Gentlemen: “I have
twehe to eighteen months’ treatment not only used you Compound Oxvgen for over two years with,
failed to accomplish, but she was constantly getting excellent results; an increase of ten pounds iti
worse. She has gained in flesh; cheeks full and a weight, sweet breath, ami entire freedom from any
good healthy color; is joyous, in good spirit; has re- signs of catarrh, except when I have taken a cold,
gained her appetite; instead of a troubled sleep she I wish to continue its use. You will therefore
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