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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
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Book 1 on Dyspepsia
Book 2 on the Heart
Book 3 on the Kidneys
Book 4 for Women
Book 5 for Men (sealed)
Book 6 on Rheumatism
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itself to convince you that I know how
to cure. Please read it again. It means
exactly what I say. No catch—no mis-
leading phrases in it. Simply this—you
take the medicine and I will take the
risk.
And you—not I—decide if you are to
pay.
All You Need to Do
Simply sign the above—that is all. Ask
for the book you need. The offer I make
is broad—is liberal. The way is easy—
is simple. The Restorative is certain.
But do not misunderstand me.
This is not free treatment, with nothing
to pay. Such an offer would be mislead-
ing—would belittle the physician who
makes it. But I believe in a sick one’s
honesty—his gratitude. That when he is
cured, he will pay the cost of the treat-
ment—and gladly.
I make this offer so that those who
might doubt, may learn at my risk.
Tell of it, please, to a friend who is
sick. Or send me his name. That’s but
a trifle to ask—a minute’s time—a postal.
He is your friend. You can help him.
My way may be his only way to get
well.
I, a stranger, offer to do all this. Won’t
you, his friend, his neighbor, simply
write?
He will learn from my book a way to
get well. Perhaps, as I say, the only
way to get well for him. His case may
be serious—hopeless almost. Other physi-
cians—other specialists may have failed.
The matter is urgent, then
Write me a postal or sign above to-day.
Address Dr. Shoop, Box 1414, Racine,
Wis.
I Cut This Out and Know
■i —How to Get Well.
That is all. Send no money. Simply sign above. Tell me the book
you need. I will arrange with a druggist near you for six bottles of
Dr. Shoop’s Restorative
Take it a month at my risk. If it succeeds the cost to you is $5.50. If it
i fals the druggist will bill the cost to me. And I leave the decision to you
Next to being noble is the ability idemic... One joyous nature willfill
and readiness to appreciate noble- an auditorium with goodcheer De-
ness. Next to the power to do or spondency 18 a poor debater. It can
to say that which is worthy of ad- bring no argument that a sunbeam
miration and high praise, is the rec- wi not penetrate. Ex.
ognition of that which is deserving The cross was not built for mil-
of special notice and commenda. lions, but for the sinner, though he
tion A person of inferior ability be the solitary offender in creation,
can detect flaws in another's per-
formance, but it is the evidence of satisfied
the superior man to perceive single ,pd0 ,
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signs of ability in the words or ways
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01 1: 1 0 , The surgeon who is attending a dan-
noticed by ordinary hearers or ob- gerous case praises the food that help-
servers. This is indicated and il- ed his little patient.
lustrated by the comments on the "I have a story to tell about what
preacher’s discourse made by mem- Grape-Nuts did and is still doing for
1 11 my child, a story marvelous indeed
bers of the congregation as they which seems almost incredible but
pass away from the forenoon ser- which is an absolute fact.
vice. Many pride themselves on "Two years ago in March my little
their ability to point out the errors four-year-old daughter . was stricken
of treatment which have been hip joint. We put her in charge of a
made, not knowing that they thus specialist for treatment. He told us
disclose their own inferiority. The that our only hope of saving her hip
hearers of superior ability uncon- and perhaps life in addition to his sur-
sciously disclose their superiority in sjstemrwimegtodanotrishiig EDaber
their recognition of certain things make good rich blood, bone, muscle
worth noting and bearing in mind and fat which in time would cure the
in the discourse just listened to. We disease by absorption.
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show ourselves, not the one con - difficult case to treat as there were so
mented on, by our expressions of many foods recommended that did not
opinion.—Selected. agree with her or that she did not
» like and therefore would not eat.
LONG SERMONS. “For a year and a half she barely
held her own until Grape-Nuts was
The length of a sermon consists tried which she liked from the first
not alone in its duration. There and in two months gained two pounds
are other elements which conspire inweight, where, during the 18 months
. ,, , , 1 .t preceding, she had lost weight,
together to make it long. Environ- "Now notwithstanding she is also
ment has no little to do with it. Is just recovering from a severe attack
the house cold? Has the sexton of the whooping cough which she has
come too late to make the audience had for the last three months, she has
1.1 1 i gamed steadily in weight, is growing
room comfortable. Is the day swel- nicely and her entire recovery is prom-
teringly hot and ventilation poor? ising and hopeful and we are confident
Then will the sermon be long. No of complete success.
one can sit contentedly in a refrig- "Our surgeon is delighted with the
erator or furnace and listen attent- both he and ourselves are more than
iyely to a discourse. He longs for thankful that we tried Grape-Nuts.”
the end. Or if the acoustics are bad The writer of this letter is the Pas-
the sermon is lengthened or if the tor of a Church at Warrensville, Ohio,
ne sermon is-en8nenem or n me Name given by Postum Co., Battle
hearing is deficient. No one cares Creek, Mich.
to listen long, unless he be an en- Thousands of physicians now pre-
tomologist, at the humming of a scribe Grape-Nuts food in all cases
bee on the window, wheregstrengthsis expected from food.
The condition as well as the sit- Look in each pkg. for the famous
nation of the hearer has something little book, “The Road to Wellville."
Taken in time, the suffering of this little
one would have been prevented. Her
mother writes me:
“Two years ago my little girl was
sick continuously for six months. We
tried many doctors and they failed,
yet it took only two bottles of your
remedy to cure her, and she has re-
mained cured. You can tell others of
this cure if you so desire. Mrs. C. H.
Avery, Rockdale, N. Y.”
’Tis a pity she did not first write me,
before the case was dangerous.
The wife of Omer Andrus, of Bayou
Chicot, La., had been sick for 20 years.
For 8 years could do practically no work.
He writes:
“When she first started taking the
Restorative she barely weighed 90
pounds; now she weighs 135, and is
able easily to do all her housework.”
Twenty “dark” years might have been
“bright” ones.
J. G. Billingsley, of Thomasville, Ga.,
for three years has been crippled with
disease. Now he is well. He writes:
“I spent $250.00 for other medicines,
and the $3.00 I have spent with you
have done me more good than all the
rest.”
Both money and suffering might have
been saved.
And these are only three from over 65,-
000 similar cases. These letters— dozens
of them—come every day to me.
How much serious illness the Restora-
tive has prevented, I have no means of
knowing, for the slightly ill and the in-
disposed simply get a bottle or two of
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Tp A v A 4 • —s — A Gm--- ing over many of the famous old almost a gale began to blow. The to do with it. Every sermon, no
“k - 5 pl 11 1 - - palaces, some of which have played anchor, finding nothing on the sea’s matter how good, is long to Broth-
• a great part in history; the homes bottom on which to catch, com- er Sleepy-Head or Sister Nodder,
... . ,, - j , where kings were born, and lived, menced to drag, and the ship was but to Brother Sound-Sleeper they
instrument that God has put into and feasted, and died. But I never threatened with destruction because are short. To the man who loves
Not for many years has there the ancs ot man. saw a palace so splendid but what the anchor would not hold. Only to fight a battle against sermons the
been such a general conviction of Perhaps we have made too much if I were to move into it, and under- the quickest action saved her from preacher is a bore. Anxiety to go
the need of a revival of religion and of the saying, "To labor is to pray.” take to make a home of it, I should sinking. But the anchor had told somewhere or do something else-
such widely cherished desire for it There is a certain truth in that, but want to change it a great deal. We its story; it meant safety in time of where or do something elsewhere
as during recent times. at bottom, though work may be a are hard to suit in the way of need, but only when there was some- prolongs minutes into hours. It
The natural question is: What form of prayer, it is not the only homes. We know that by the way thing on which it could lay hold, would be very helpful to the preach-
can we do to promote a revival of re- way in which men can pray; and people move about in the city. Ev- When the fog settled down and hid er if the hearer would leave every-
ligion in our community? That is even as an aspect of prayer, it is ery week we see people moving from the way, when storms beat that thing at home when he came to
a question that perhaps has been worthless unless it is prompted by one house to another. They stop could not be weathered in the open, church.
sufficiently answered in articles, those spiritual qualities that make awhile and then move on, leaving then the anchor meant peace and The matter affects the length of
books, and sermons. Perhaps it has any prayer acceptable. We have the ills they know for those they salvation. And when the tide was the sermon materially. If the
been answered so completely that seen Protestants smile with incred- know not of. But Christ knows ex- contrary and there was no helping preacher is moved to denounce in
men have come to entertain the ulity when a Roman Catholic stated actly what you need. He is the only wind, then it enabled the ship to unmeasured words some of the
opinion far too generally that some- that, according to his - idea, the cne who understands all of your pe- hold its own and kept it from the specific sins of the hearer, the
thing they can do will usher in a prayers of recluses were as precious culiarities, and he will fit your indi- rocks, but only when it found a rest- sermon is long. No matter how
spiritual quickening.' For while as the labors of missionaries. Yet vidualities in your heavenly home, ing place where it could grip fast. skillful the physician, to the
there is a certain preparation and that is the fact, if we trust the New How tender these words of promise, The Christian’s hope is “an an- one flayed moments become months,
attitude on the part of the churches Testament. Perhaps our ministers that, as one whom his mother com- chor sure and steadfast.” When the On the other hand, if his words
that may be regarded as the human could hardly do their congregations forteth, God will comfort those who fogs of doubt settle down; when are words of flattery, smooth
antecedent of a revival, yet such a greater service just now than to trust him. Your fondest dreams storms of temptation threaten de- and sweet and oily, then with
visitations of divine grace do not explain fully the New Testament shall be more than met in your struction to the soul; when all the pleasure such persons can lis-
come by any machinery of man’s de- conception of the place of prayer in heavenly home.—Louis Albert tides of life seem to run against one, ten. If one is deeply interested
vice; they come like the flowing of the Christian life, and in the ad- Banks. and on either side are perilous in the truth, hearing is a pleasure,
the tides, or like the rain, or the vance of the kingdom of God. —♦— rocks, and the only hope seems to be yea a delight. As the thirsty trav-
wind, by a power that is above man. We have great hopes that any THE CHRISTIAN ANCHOR. in just holding one’s own, then eler takes deep draughts of the re-
From this point of view we see church which is in the mood for Sailing along the Atlantic Coast there is nd fear, for the anchor finds freshing water, so the truth-loving
the worth of prayer in a new prayer will be spiritually blessed. It one year we learned the value of an its resting place in Christ and in soul receives the word of life. My
light. That is the one thing that may have excellent singing and anchor. The fog was so thick the his promises, and it cannot drag, last wod is an exhortation: Let
the devisers of revival machinery preaching, and the work may be or- lookout could not see ten feet ahead, however strong the winds. An us try to be good listeners and thus
habitually neglect. They make ganized like a department store, and The vessel’s course had led her into "anchor"— it has a meaning that is help ourselves, the preacher and
much of singing, and “testimonies,” yet a spiritually minded man not be Vineyard Sound, where many ships real and full and precious and the the cause of Christ.
and organized “work,” but not so able to see the tokens of a revival; might be expected in the channel, hope that is held through faith in ♦
much of prayer. Of course there is but when.the church is at prayer, The captain gave the order to lay Jesus holds us in safety in the great- He who says I will struggle
a reason for that. Prayer is such an waiting upon God, and looking to to till daybreak. An anchorage was est dangers on the sea of life. against sin hereafter, instead of say-
intimate, personal experience that Him with earnest desire for some- found, the great anchor was let go, There are thousands of men to ing I will struggle with it now; he
you cannot organize or command it. thing that no wit or strength of and there we lay in safety till the whom immediate success rarely who is content to fight with it in
Now if we take our direction man can achieve, the reasons multi- fog lifted, and we could sail without comes; they are met by constant fancy “m the green avenues of the
from the New Testament we shall ply that the windows of heaven are danger failure and disappointments; they future,” not in fact in the hot plains
see that prayer is the supreme agen- about to be opened.—The Watch- Not many days after, a tug had struggle with scant reward and of to-day, will proceed to make ex-
cv on the part of man for securing man. brought the vessel from Boston as scantier recognition from the world, cuses for it, will come at last not
spiritual blessing Men quote ap- --- far as Boston Light. There was no The sweets of success are never even to feel its horror. To put off
provingly Tennyson’s famous lines THE HEAVENLY HOME. wind, and the tide was contrary, so theirs; the struggle, the labor and repentance is to court rum, to post-
on “prayer ” but as a rule we Chris- What a home that will be! I sup- in mid-channel, with rocky reefs on the long-deferred hope are their pone the season is to perpetuate the
tians do not greatly believe in it. pose none of us has ever had a home either side, again the anchor was let daily experience. Such men may sin. Even to hesitate is to yield;
“At their wits’ ends all men pray.” that just exactly suited. I have go, this time with all the canvas miss the crowning of life; it may be even to deliberate is to be lost.
But for the most part, we delay un- never seen one that I would not set, waiting for wind or change of theirs to pluck from failure the im- Canon Farrar.
til we are at our wits’ends before we change if it could be done without time. The supper hour was over, mediate flower of noble character. - * 1 ,, .,
nrav And vet if we trust the New any expense or annoyance. I have sailors were lolling on the decks, —Selected. . . - au- . a
pray. AudJeu we -—9- V . "IF. - 7 c 1 1 1 1. 1 c.9 1 1 ’ --•-- with perennial good nature. Sun-
Testament, prayer is the mightiest had the privilege m Europe of look- when suddenly from a clear sky, How WE asHow OURSELVES UP.” shine is contagious. Smiles are ep-
their druggist, are cured, and I never
hear from them.
But of 600,000 sick ones—seriously sick,
mind you—who asked for my guarantee,
39 out of each 40 have paid. Paid because
they got well.
If I can succeed in cases like these—
fail but one time in 40, in diseases deep-
seated and chronic—isn’t it certain I can
always cure the slightly ill?
Why the Restorative Succeeds
You may oil and rub, adjust and repair
a weak engine. It will never be stronger
nor do its work better, without steam.
More power—more steam is necessary.
And so with the vital organs. Doctor
them as you will. That’s mere repairing.
Permanent cures never come save through
treating the nerves that operate those
organs.
And that my Restorative does.
After almost a lifetime of labor—of
study at bedsides and research in hos-
pitals—I made this discovery. I found a
way to treat, not the organs themselves,
but the nerves—the inside nerves—that op-
erate these organs and give them power
and strength and health. That discovery
has shown me the way to cure.
It makes my offer possible.
I know the remedy. I never can forget
the study, all the research, the trials
and tests that perfected it. I have watch-
ed its action year after year in cases
difficult, discouraging. Time after time
I have seen it bring back health to those
poor ones whom hope had almost desert-
ed. I know what it will do.
My only problem is to convince you.
And so I make my offer. And the bare
fact that I make such an offer ought of
e% To Dr. Shoop, Box 1414, Racine,
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