THE HIGHER LIFE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3783, 11 April 1891, Page 2

THE HIGHER LIFE

As a writer on social topics, in a style that is elevating in thought, as W3ll as elegant in diction, Mrs Lynn Lynton has achieved a decided recitation. In hsr article on the Religion of oelf Respect in the " New Review," she makes a bold but justifiable attack on the money grubbing tendency of the times. She seeks to awake to new consciousness the moral sense of the apparent worthlessness of mere gold worship. " After all," she says, " money is not the end of life, for when death comes our money is of no avail. This rather is the true end of life; to try to lead a life of happiness, not of pleasure ;to do right because it is right, to do light even though it may appear to other people wrong, even though it may be contrary to all accepted maxims of our commercial world. Do right, regardless of what people say, and, if necessary, defy society. We, of to-day, boast of our liberty, buc we are the most miserable slaves the world has over seen. In every little detail we are mercilessly ordered by these two tyrants—Custom and Society." This is, if merciless, to a great extent too true. But it is also true, especially ef our own land, but there are large numbers, and the numbera are constantly increasing, who think for themselves, who will no longer be content to pay slavish obedience ,to the mandates of Custom and Society. They will not believe what their intelligence controverts, simply because "evetybody says so;" they will not do what does not seem right, because " everybody says so." They swing out from the beaten paths of creed and custom to find •' greener fields and pastures new " of thought and action. So come to the world new inventions to ease the burden ot labor,} new remedies to cheat the yawning grave of its victims, new and better notions of existence in the life which is to come. If there were no original thinkers the sun would still circle through the heavens, and the world would stand still. There are medical men who still cling to the " bleed and blister " theory ; there are some who pooh-pooh at tbe idea that Warner's safe cure is a specific for kidney disorders, solely because it is a proprietory remedy— they are back number editions. The most intelligent of the profession, men like Dr R. G. Gunn, of the Medical College of New York, do not hesitate to recommend it, and use it in their practise ; for as Dr Gunn says in his published book, " the ingredients of the remedy are among the most valuable of Materia Medica." He also declares that he knows the medicine is used by leading physicians, but they will no let their patients know they employ it. Mr Hugh Fraser, director of Fraser's Gold Mining Co., Yilgarn, W.A., testifies as follows :—Perth, West Australia, 3rd January, 1881.—Two or three years ago, when subjected to the privations of a mining prospector, I was taken ill, pains invaded aM parts of my body, and kidney disease, with fever and ague set in. I was also seized with cramps and shivering fits, and my sufferings became so intense that I thought I would sink under myfafflictionss, and I fully believe 1 would have done so, but for Warner's safe cure which promptly relieved the most distressing symptoms. I took in all 8 bottles of the medicine, and I can vouch that through its agency I' recovered, and now I feel a new man, mentally and physically.''