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indigestible. I judge, if you eat " Schumacher "' 

 graham gems for a few months the bran will 

 be sufficient irritant for the stomach, without 

 the comb that will not digest nor melt in stom- 

 ach. There are more dyspeptics in the United 

 States nowl than Republicans. It would be a 

 grand scheme to induce them to ]iv(^ properly, 

 even if they never recover entirely. 



Henry M. Hawley. 

 Terre Haute. Ind., Jan. 31. 



[Thanks for your suggestions, friend H. 

 Mrs. Root makes the gems only in the morning. 

 I prefer them cold for supper. At noon we dine 

 over at the factory with the rest of the people, 

 and then, of course, we eat what other folks do 

 — or, at least, we gel along nicely by choosing 

 from among the good things provided. I know 

 there has been a good deal of teaching in regard 

 to the indigestibility of honey- comb; but I 

 have been eating both comb and e.xtracted 

 hotiey in considerable quantities, and I do not 

 notice any difference, unless it is that, as a 

 general thing, I get a more perfectly ripened 

 article in the comb. You will notice the Bible 

 has considerable to say about honey and the 

 honey-comb; and the connection seems to indi- 

 cate that it was then considered a choice arti- 

 cle of food, as it is now. I know it makes a 

 vast difference as to whether our food is thor- 

 oughly chewed or not. And, by'the way, I am 

 glad to tell you that I am not a dyspeptic, and 

 I do not mean to be. The women-folks have 

 been protesting so stoutly that that ladies' Co- 

 lumbia was their property that I have just in- 

 vested in a new Columbia, with all the modern 

 improvements, including that elliptical sprock- 

 et-wheel, and I tell you it is just fun to ride it, 

 even if it is good sleighing.] 



THE WHEEL — DOES A KEACTFON FOLLOW, AFT- 

 ER USING IT SEVEKAI, WEEKS OR MONTHS ? 



Friend Root: — After reading your chapter on 

 cycling one evening, I just wanted ever so bad 

 to have a wheel of my own; but next morning 

 the first thing we found was the clipping in- 

 closed, and— well, I haven't bought a machine 

 yet. M. Hawksworth. 



Medina, Oxford Co., Ont., Can. 



[The clipping referred to in the above is to 

 the effect that, after the exhilaration and great 

 benefit that come from the first use of the wheel, 

 a reaction follows, the constitution is broken 

 down, if the rider does n'ot break his arms or 

 legs or neck by an accident, and, all together, its 

 advent is a calamity. Very likely there is such 

 a thing as using the wheel to excess. There are 

 extremes in the use of almost every gift from 

 God. But I am glad to say, that, as yet, I have 

 seen no ill results whatever. While visiting 

 our daughter (" Blue Eyes ") at Oberlin, where 

 she is going to school, I sat at the table next to 

 a lady who is a most expert and graceful rider. 

 Said I. " Miss M., can you tell me how long 

 this enthusiasm and exhilaration last that come 

 from riding a wheel? " She replied, " I can only 

 tell you, Mr. Root, that I have had my wheel 

 three years, and I enjoy riding to-day every 

 bit as much as I did at anytime since I have 

 had it." No one can look on while the students, 

 both boys and girls, run their wheels over the 

 college campus and throughout the streets of 

 Oberlin, without feeling that it must be a God- 

 send to enable them to get such a kind of -out- 

 door exercise after the confining duties of the 

 class-room. The newspaper clipping referred 

 to doubtless had in mind the racing mania that 

 seems to be more or less connected with at least 

 a certain class who ride wheels. I have never 

 tried to beat anybody, and never expect to; and 

 I certainly shall never be even one of a party 



who ride for prizes, even though the prize be 

 nothing more than a bag of doughnuts.] 



a caution to I5ICYCLE- RIDERS. 



We copy the following from the Cleveland 

 Medicdl Gazette for Jan., 189~*: 



As we predicted some time ago, our exchanges 

 are filled with reports of cases of prostatitis as 

 the result of riding a bicycle in the present 

 abominable and ungraceful fashion. It is to be 

 hoped that bicyclers and bicycle-makers will 

 appreciate the gravity of the threatened and 

 existing evil, and return to the high handle- 

 bar and erect position. 



'■ who can FORGIVE SINS, RUT GOD ONLY?" 



Your remarks on the church (notes of trav- 

 in Gleanings of Dec. 1), prompt me to ask a 

 simple question; if you answer satisfactorily it 

 will be of great benefit to the Catholic sub- 

 scribers; and if not. it will mo.-t ,>urely be a 

 benefit to the Protestant readers. We read in 

 Scripture, that Christ said to his apostles, 

 " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will 

 build my church: and the gates of hell shall not 

 prevail against it.'" '" Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 

 Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted 

 unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, 

 they are retained." " Whatsoever thou shalt 

 bind on earth it shall be bound in heaven; and 

 whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be 

 loosed in heaven." " Go ye therefore and teach 

 all nations, baptizing them in the name of the 

 Father, and of the Son. and of the Holy Ghost: 

 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 

 I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you 

 alway, even unto the end of the world." Has 

 Christ deceived the apostles? Can the church 

 be wrong, if Christ kept his promise? 



Pinconning, Mich., Dec. 22. E. Brennan. 



Friend B., when I undertake to answer your 

 question you must bear in mind that I am not a 

 commentator nor even a theological student, 

 and I am liable to make grave blunders — yes, 

 perhaps as great as when I made my remarks 

 about that ancient church. In the first place, 

 I can say, most emphatically, that Christ did 

 not deceive his apostles in the words that you 

 quote. If you go back a few verses in that 16th 

 chapter of Matthew, you will notice the Master 

 had been asking his followers, " Whom do men 

 say that I, the Son of man, am?" Finally, 

 when the question was put directly to them- 

 selves, Peter replied in those wonderful words 

 that are destined to go down through the ages, 

 ••Thou art the t'hrist, the Son of the living 

 (rod." This answer pleased the Savior, and he 

 commended him. He said, •" Blessed art thou, 

 Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not re- 

 vealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in 

 heaven." Then follows the text you have 

 quoted. Now, the question may be. Did the 

 Savior mean that his church should be built on 

 Peter, or on the wonderful sentiment conveyed 

 in Peter"s answer — namely, "Thou art the 

 Christ, the Son of the living God "? I think his 

 meaning was, that the church should be built 

 upon the fact that Peter had so strongly declar- 

 ed. The question is before the world now as it 

 was then — who is Jesus Christ? The Bible teach- 

 es us plainly, that, except we believe in him 

 —that is, in the Son of (Jod— there is no salva- 

 tion for us. There are many reasons for taking 

 this view of the matter: in fact, the last of the 

 sentence says, •' And the gates of hell shall not 

 prevail against it." The italics in the last word 

 are my own. My understanding is, that it was 

 not Peter he was speaking of, but Peter's dec- 

 laration. In your next quotation he says, 

 '■ Receive ye the Holy Ghost;" and then comes 



