A Fasting Fanatic.
A fasti fg fanatic, who is so much " filled with heavenly food " that he considers the coarseness of mundane sustenance a wicked superfluity* is exciting curiosity in the neighbourhood of Guildford. This zealot propones to keep Lent in a more rigid fashion than is customary. He has set himself the task of^ fasting forty- one days onn of this penance is in a fair way to complete the full time. He is not co full of heavenly food " as to dispense altogether with earthly solace. Tea and tobacco are the special weaknesses in whose favour be has made an exception in his self-denying ordinance. It is not much of a diet to sustain life on, but it is better than nothing at all. Tobacco has long been know as a sedative to hunger, and tea possesses certain nutritive and stimulative properties which may assist in the prolongation of life. Yet withal* it is not an experiment that ought to be permitted. There is a way of dealing with lunatics who refuge in this can©.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 10 July 1886, Page 1
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177A Fasting Fanatic. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 10 July 1886, Page 1
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