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Show BRILLIANT MINISTER I VICTIM OF IFIIIll ! Rev. Dudley B. Ashford, i Noted Preacher and Lecturer, Lec-turer, Well Known on Three Continents, Was Ordered to j ! Give Up Work j Reverend Dudley B. Ashford hi an extraordinary man. Although slill on lhe sunny side of forty, he has crowded crowd-ed more service to humanity Into :t feV years than most men accomplish in a life time. Soon after his graduation from Hn'-ley College, London, England, be wac ordained minister at tho famous New Court Congregational Church. London. A short time theicafter he was selected to present thc cnuse of Conge Reform and African Missions before the people or Norway, ana totiied that land with such stif.ces? thai he was greeted by enormous crowds at every meeting. la 190S. under the auspices of the Colonial Missionary Society, he wju? sent to New Zealand and Vor :hree years labored as a missionary Lionel line iuaons, where his experiences i were novel and thrilling. t ' r ?n .101G he returned to England and r served tor three years nt Wood bircc : Congregational cnurch, Cardiff, South Wales, the biggest Congregational chi'.'-ch in the British Empire, .t was' . wh.lo here that he fell one .1 th. J , early victims of thc great 1918 flu i , epidemic, an attack from which ho! I had not fully recovorcd when ho nc copied a call to the Queen's Road Con-1 gregailonal church, St. John's, New-! i foundland, where his forceful preaching preach-ing soon attracted record congregations. congrega-tions. Tho strain of this work upon his undermincd constitution proved too severe and he suffered a nervous breakdown, from which now, how over, he has complotely recovered. Moed by a desire to serve his fellow men he has recently written a letter that tells how he was restored lo health and strength. Moved EJy Gratitude. This letter, addressed (o The Tan-lac Tan-lac Co.. Atlanta, Ca., is an eloquent expiession of gratitude and is as follows: fol-lows: 'Gentlemen: Your medicine, known as 'Tanlac.' has been such an inesti-mar-le blessing to me, that I feel con-strahied con-strahied to write and tell vou so In October. . 191S, while a minister of th" oud Street Congregational churcn, Cardiff, South Wales, I had a several sever-al lack of the Spanish influenza, from the effects of which I never fully recovered. re-covered. I lost twenty-eight pcuncU in wtight and was unable to ecovc i my usual energy. I "Then, in February, 1919. I becanir thy minister of the Queen's Road Con-gressatlonnl Con-gressatlonnl church at St. Johns. Newfoundland. New-foundland. My ministry was attend-1 ed with great success, but the strain' proved too great for me and I h?d a serious breakdown. My nerves seem- i ed to go all to pieces and mv liges-tion liges-tion became so deranged that I coul -UU; 'js; Rev. Dudley B. Ashford, Noted ' 1 Preacher, Lecturer and ) 1 Missionary. I J oat scarcely anything. My heart gavi ' me i lot of trouble; it was an -ffor: lo walk upstairs and at night I used lo lie awake in continual dread lest ' my heart should stop beating alto !. gether. I "Then, as a result of exposuie one : winter's night In a small boat, vvlill ' In ihe execution of my duties, I wai se:a-d with violent pains in thc right shoulder and arm, which nearly drove ;' mu lo distraction. I consulted dec- Ioj and specialists and underwent I massage and electrical trealinen. V: without getting much relief. ! wan ordered to give up all preaching and ; j public work for at least three months, ; j and I began to fear that my iiealtll ' S was permanently affected. S He Had Been Skeptical. "I had always been rather skeptical 1 of tho testimonials concerning lhe merits of any medicine, but one day f I read the statemenl of a man v-hos- f symptoms seemed to be Identical wiin a my own, and his praise of fmla'1 n rang so true I decided to give it a a trial myself. I bought a bottla an-1 its effect was almost immediate. M nervous condition began to disappear and I began to get sleep at night. Mv g appetite so increased that I could I scarcely satisfy it. and I founl my $ self putting on weight rapldh. By th? time I had taken the fourth bo' tie, the pains in my arm and shoulder H disappeared and I am feeling better B today than for a long time past . "I feel" that I should be guilty of base ingratitude If I did not write ;i and tell you what a boon Tanlac has sv been to me, and I give you hls un ; solicited testimonial to use as you mav ihing bost, in the hopo that oth 1 Di-s may find in your wonderful medi- I cine the means to restored health and 5 strangth " Tnlac is sold In Ogden by the A. R. Mclntyre Drug Co. |