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A CLERGYMAN'S TESTIMONY

Writing to the "Record" ( A Septuagenarian Clergyman' says : ' When — more than a quarter of a century ago— l came to the conclusion that " for the preient distress" It was good for one who had to watoh for souls not to take strong drink as a beverage, I made my account for a battle with my own sensations and with the doctors The first came m the eourte of a few weeks, and lasted for more than a year. The last arrived three or four years afterwards, on the heels of a ■omawhat lerlous Illness. I was told that what T wanted was a liberal allowance of port wine. Had I taken the advice, I wonld probably before this have followed my adviser to an early grave. As it was on recovering from the Illness I went on with my prescribed rale, and, as a consequence, I have found m succeeding years a disappearance of former ailments, and an la crease of bodily and mental vigour, enabling me to go through a considerable amount of Inteleo tnal, and at times physical labor with an ease to which I was a stranger when X waa a yonnger man. But then It was no part of my experiment to ' digest easily great masses of food.' On the contrary, having no help from alcohol In stimulating the digestion to undue exertion, I was content to allow the appetite to follow its natural diotates, It baa t tbns regained its normal condition, wbioh, I am bold to ■ay, is one tolerating less food— notably less animal food — than is usually taken. The more perfect nutrition produced by the smaller quantity repairs the watte both of muecular and brain tissue more •peedlly and more durable than the "great masses" would do under the artificial exoitement of alcohol. And the system escapes the long train of diseases which the ally In question, when odoo called m, Is apt to leave behind him.'

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1691, 19 October 1887, Page 3

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A CLERGYMAN'S TESTIMONY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1691, 19 October 1887, Page 3

A CLERGYMAN'S TESTIMONY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1691, 19 October 1887, Page 3

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