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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1923)
Rheumatism Left Him As If By Magic! Bad Suffered Over 50 Y ears! Now 83 Years, Yet a Big Surprise To Friends A Regains Strength Goes Out Fishing Back to Business Laughs at “URIC ACID*' How the rf M “Inner /] Mysteries ' ’ Reveals Startling Facts Overlooked By Doctors and Scientists For Centuries *1 am eighty-three years old and I doctored for rheumatism ever since I came out of the army over fifty years ago,” writes J. B. Ashelman. "Like many others, I spent money freely for so-called ‘cures,’ and I have read about ‘Uric Acid’ until I could almost taste It. I could not sleep nights dr walk without pain; my hands were so sore and stiff I could not hold a pen. But now, as if by magic, I am again in ac tive business and can walk with ease or write all day with comfort. Friends are surprised at the change.” HOW IT HAPPENED. Mr. Ashelman is only one of thou sands who suffered for years, owing to thQf general belief in the old, rklse 0 theory that “Uric Acid” causes rheuma tism. This erroneous belief induced him and legions of unfortunate , men and women to take wrong treatments. You might just as well attempt !to put out a fire with oil as to try and get rid of your rheumatism, neuritis and like complaip.ts, by taking treatments sup posed to drive Uric^Acid out of your blood and body. Many physicians' aft# scientists now know that Uric Acid never, did, never carl and rtever will cause rheumatism; that it is a natural and necessary constituent of the blood; that it is found in every new-born babe; p.nd that without it we could not live! These statements may seem strange to some folks, who have all along been led to believe in the old “Uric Acid” humbug. It took Mr. Ashelman fiftv years to find out this truth. He learned how to get rid of the true cause of his rheumatism, other disorders, and re cover his strength from’ “The Inner Mystefles,” a remarkable book now be ing distributed free by art authority who devoted over twenty years to the scientific study of this particular trouble. . NOTE: If any reader of “The Com moner’' wishes the book that reveals thesd, facts regarding the true cause and cure of rheumatism, facts that were overlooked by doctors and scien tists for centuries past, simply send a Rost card or letter to H. P. Clearwater, 0. 1212-J Street, Hallowell, Maine, and It wlU.be sent by return rnail without any charge whatever. Cut out this no tice lest you forget! If not a sufferer yourself hand this good news to some afflicted friend—Advertisement. I B\ 200 SHEETS ylT J B fOO^ENVELOPES \ I | Printed with Your Name*! I V and Address g B Fine Bond Paper: Size of sheet* g g 6x7; envelopes 6 1-2 x 3 5-8; ' a g printing in latest style in blue W B ink only. Send us $1.00 and J g write plainly your name and . g address as you want it printed. g Satisfaction guaranteed. Orders I M Bent postpaid. 1/ National Stationery Co. ^ Bu D Windna, Minnesota A k » this deity being established by the fact of Christ, we find it easy to be lieve all that is said of His miracu lous birth and resurrection. His claim to Messiahship is estab lished. He came to save the world and His example can be followed without fear. . ' M -~++—" -ff ;•? -> 4 . BIBLE TEXT—LESSON FOR *1 DECEMBER 24 ’ ■ ‘ (Luke 12:r$-31) And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich ma,n brought forth plentifully; And he thought within himself, say ing, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said. This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I" besto\y. all my fruits and my goods. ' I. And I will say to my sopl. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years? take thine ease, eat, "drink, and be merry. . But God said unto him. Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be Required of. thee: then whose shall those things be,^ which thou, hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. f And he said unto his disciples, There-' for I say .unto you, Take no thought of your life, what yq shall eat'; neither for the body, What ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens,: for they neither sow nor' reap; which heithet have storehouse nor barn; and Qod feedeth them:, how much morq are ye better than the fowls? And Which of you with taking thqught can add to his stature one cubit? i j. If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? •<« Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil" not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you,’ that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one : of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomor row is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and1 all these things shall be add ed unto you. ■ ■— . r .i How appropriate >ri introduction for the fast approaching Christmas season is a brief contemplation of the Saviour's parable of “a certain rich man.” You will find it exquisitely told in the l?th chapter of Luke. 'It is a parable that is a rebuke to greed, a warning agaitist unnecessary anxiety and a declaration of man’s paramount: duty. ‘‘The ground of a certain rich.nfhn brought forth plentifully.” Instead of being grateful for the abundance with which he had been bleSsed, and, < because of bis grati tude, interesting himself ip discover ing ways in which it might be wisejw used, he reasoned within; himself, saying, “What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow' mv fruits?” 4 ' It seems not to have occurred to him that he might aid others not so prosperous—his thought was entirely absorbed in himself. # “This I, will do,” he said. “I will pull down my barns, and build great er; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.’’ But even this was not enough. Nat content with making provision for the security of his abundant har vest, he planned—still thinking of himself ,only—how he could get the most pleasure out of spending it. “I w’ill say to my soul, ‘Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years: take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.’ ” A SELFISH PROGRAM He laid out for himself a very sel fish program; just thp kind of a pro- 1 gram that appeals to one who has no vision of'spiritual things. “Take thine ease” is the only thought of those who worship the body. “Eat, drink and be merry”—what difference does it make whether others are hungry or sad? Then comes the rebuke. The God who gave the bounty an nounced judgment against one who would make an unworthy use of the prosperity which had come to him. “Thou foolish one, this-night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things, be, which thou hast provided?” , Here are two lessons in a single sentence—the folly of the sensualist and the futility of his preparations. Worshippers of the god of ease eat not because food is necessary, but be cause they enjoy eating. They sleep not because the body requires rest, but because they love to sleep. They eat and eat and eat, and sleep and sleep and sleep and then rise up to eat and, eat again. Such a life is a round of so-called pleasures that soon Cease to satisfy. THE INEVITABLE QUESTION j Those who look no higher than ' physical satisfaction not onjy lose the higher enjoyments but undermine the strength of the body. They ex haust themselves in physical pleas ures. Man’s , body needs a spiritual supervision to make it yield all that the body if capable of yielding. .“Then whose shall those things be?” Those who think only of pleasure are not only impotent to insure to their children the enjoyment of the surplus which they fail to consume, but the example that they set is like ly to lead their children into the same forbidden paths that they them selves have followed. Wasted lives are often reproduced in the lives of children just as useless as their parents were. The iniquities of the parents are visited upon the children just as the virtues of the parents are woven into the lives of the descendants. Solomon, the wise man, gives us the benefit, of his observations: “I was young and am old, but I have flfiver seen the righteous man for ■wen or bis seed begging bread,” A DELIGHTFUL .MINGLING The second thought is a delightful mingling of counsel and promise. After giving to his disciples the impressive lesson of the man who “layeth up‘ treasure for himself, and is not” rich toward God,” Christ deH livered one of the most beautiful of his many sermons. - ' “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for your body, what ye shall put on. They life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.” , . i Then follows a*eries of pictures of birds and fields and gardens. Pic tures present one of the strongest forms of argument, viz;, reasoning from the less to the greater. , ^ The ravens neither sow nor reap and have no barns, yet God feedeth them—are ye not of more value than the birds? Man cannot by anxious thought add to the measure of his life. Why worry about impossible things? “CONSIDER THE LILIES” “Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon m all his glory was not arrayed like one of these,” If tiod does so clothe the grass of the field, how much more will he clothe you? Poets and writers qf prose have paraphrased the words of Christ and used the same form of argument to rebuke those of little faith. None of these have interpreted this thought SSf.® truJ,y or more gracefully than William Cullen Bryant in his “Ode to the Waterfowl.” • After tracing the flight of this bird She Found A Pleasant Way To Reduce Her Fat Thousands of overfat people have greatly re duced their weight and attained a normal fig. ure by following the advice of many others who. use and recom mend Harwell Prescribe.r Tablets. These harm less little fat reducers sue prepared in tablet form from the same in gredients that formerly composed the famous Marmola Prescription isr fat redaetioa. 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