AN ILLUSTRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 295, 16 May 1914, Page 8

AN ILLUSTRATION.

In order to help you imtloruliind what mean, take iin illustration. For •'. man 0 understand music, lie requires to cxrcise more than mere intellect; hj, mist have a musical soul, without which ! le is an outsider, bo far as music is ciiierned. Ho may lie alile to discuss the \ engtli and value and origin of musical cores, but lie cannot enjoy music. Sup>ose a man finds himself in one of the urge Art <lalleries of Europe. He will lot appreciate much less judge or criti- 6 . iize the work unless he lias something )f an artist's sense of beauty. Pure intellect is not enough. So in the mutter }f Christianity. Rationalists and liti'riry critics may discuss it, and p.iss their I'erdiels upon it, but they have failed to fulfil the first condition of a emupotent judge if they are exercising Hum intellects only. They must open their hearts, their wills, their being, to giv. it a, trial. Von may not know much about many. i|iicstions the critics propound, but the humblest may know Christ. You may lime a sensj of sin? forgiven and a new life. If you d,i, then never yield up that experience for a • speculation. That is not to say that there is no reason in Christianity or that we arc afraid to expose it to'the test of reason. Not at all. But what we do maintain is that our hopes are not built on ideas that are prone to become old fashioned. First men had the experienco of the Christian life, and then they expressed that life in terms of doctrines. That is true, for example, of the Incarnation The doctrine of the Incarnation did not come down as a fully developed theorv from heaven. The disciples first .iaw Christ the Incarnate One, became impressed with him, discovered that Be was no mere man, and then set to work to express their convictions as staled in the Gospels. Paul's doctrine of the atonement was born of experience. He underwent an undeniable experience and lived to appreciate more and more the deliverance from his heavy weight of sin, and then formulated his doctrine which is the outcome of an experience. There-are doctrines in the Christian Church which we believe to he a correct statement of the relationship of Clod | with men, ami vice versa. But we do jriot ask you to master the doctrines |of Our Confession of Faith. 'We ask you j nay, we urge you to let Christ into your life, to give you a new experience to 1 awaken you to the importance anl'seri lousness of divine things, or rather of lliimself, and thus enable you to say: | 'One thing I know, whereas 1 was bliiH I now see, and only Christ could aceoni- | plish such •< work." I j WHY YOUR STOMACH HUtTS. A DOCTOR'S COMMOX-SKXSK ADVICE '_ Pains in the stomach, various!.- called indigestion, dyspepsia, flatulence', heartburn, stomach-ache, etc., is usually attributed to some unnatural, abm'nnal or diseased condition of the stomach itself. Nothing, however, could be fti"thcr from the truth. Xinetecn times out of twenty the stomach is absolutely healthy and normal, the pain and discomfort being entirely due to the acidity and fermentation of food which irritates and distends the stomach; although if this condition is allowed to run on, in ■ time the constant irritation of the acid • is likely to eat into the stomach w.ills and produce ulcers and sometimes cavi- • cor of the stomach. Medicine is useless ' in such a case. The acid and fcrment- ; nig food must be removed by a stomach | pump or an emetic, or you must neiilr.-l- ---| ise the acid and stop'the fermentation ' by taking half a teaspoonful of hl.-unt- ' ed magnesia in a little water. This litter is by far the simpler and safer method. Disunited magnesia almost ' immediately neutralises the dangerous . acid and by correcting the food contents enables even a tired, weak stomach to jdifi-est almost'any food without anv difficulty. Physicians advise that bisurj ated magnesia should be. Kept in every r home, and a little taken after each meal , whenever the slightest tendene to food i fermentation is shown, lie sure to ol> , tnin "bisurated" magnesia, as other , forms of magnesia are valuable it:- tooth i and mouth washes, but thev do not .->:■,-.. • satisfactory results in stomach disovi ders. '■ ~ . LIU- 1 , - •A CIIJIISTOIIURCU BOY C'l'KK!) FIY ', DR. SHELDON'S NEW DIS( OYKRY. j ".My little boy, four years ci age. was ■; suffering from'a very bad cold on tin ; chest, accompanied by a uevere eroupy I and chronic, cough which would always ; leave him exhausted," writes Mrs T. liiir- . rc.l, Victoria Street, Christeliurch. N'./l. , ''During the attack he would go black in .the face, causing us great w< rrv r.nu .' alarm. We tried everything thai w.is - advertised and recommended, but it wa- ■' of no use. Hearing about a case Dr. | Sheldon's New Discovery had cured. 1 [made iumiirics rnd purchased a bottle for a trial with the results that the [coughing and pains in his chest were •, immediately relieved, and his health and ' appetite were completely restored, and • he is to-day. perfectly cured and in the very best of health, for which I have Dr. t Sheldon's New Discovery alone to thank! i I hope these few words of gratitude ■ may cause others in the same state as ; my child to give it the trial it honestly deserves." Dr. Sheldon's Xew Discovery is sold at la (id and 3s. Obtainable