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GLEANINGS IN BKE CULTUliK. 



July 



God loves II uber. Tlie.ss words seemed to 

 {jive liim com fort, and h3 would sometimes 

 vary the (luestiifti by saying interrogatively 

 to me, •• (iod loves babyV" 



•' Yes/' I assented, •• and (iod will make 

 the little hand all well."" 



Twenty-four hours passed, and no change 

 for the better. In fact, it was twirc painful. 

 The women-folks clamored for a doctor 

 again. I recommended waiting anotiier 

 twenty-four hours. IJy this time, with tlie 

 aid of the sling which mamma lixed. he was 

 able to get up and walk around ; but that 

 sprained wrist was his proi)erty. No one 

 had any right to touch it; in fact, he prefer- 

 red not to talk about it. I asked him in the 

 morning if it was better. He replied with 

 two short words, " No 1 worse."" This 

 aroused a big laugh among the niembms of 

 the household, aiid even brought a smiU' to 

 the corners of Ilnber's mouth. On the third 

 day he used it enough to hold a i)iece of 

 lu-ead in his lingers, keeping it still in the 

 sling, and after about four days he an- 

 nounced in the morning with much rejoicing, 

 " I'addy all well ; oh goody! goody!"' He 

 came to me to tell me about it; and after 

 saying that Ciod had made it well, just as I 

 said, he kept repeating. "Nice (iod; made 

 baby's paddy all well."" His mamma rather 

 objected to' his familiar way of expressing 

 his praise to (iod; but I told her it was all 

 right. It was the best way that he knew of 

 for giving thanks, and it was surely accepta- 

 ble to Him who fashioned these little house- 

 hold treasures. The wrist is perfectly well 

 now. 



I'erhaps I might remark here, that such a 

 sprain is more painful than a broken bone. 

 Had we sent for a doctor, tiie doctor would 

 liave had the credit ; or if we had put on 

 some patent liniment, that would have had 

 the credit. Iluber's mother did try to put 

 on some arnica, but he objected ; and I sug- 

 gested that arnica was probably just as good 

 as warm water, and no better. Tlien we 

 had a discussion in regard to this and that 

 medicine. I replied that they would have to 

 excuse me for having but little faith in arni- 

 (ra or camphor, and every tiling of the sort, 

 because I could not understand how any- 

 body discovered tlie virtue of arnica, even if 

 it liad virtues. There are thousands upon 

 thousands of herbs and roots in the fields 

 and woods; there are also a great multi- 

 tude of diseases. If there were only one dis- 

 ease afHicting the human family, itmight be 

 possible to try all these things one by one, 

 in the treatment of said disease ; but when 

 it comes to trying all the herbs and roots, to 

 say notliing of minerals, on all diseases, the 

 number of tests to be made would be like 

 the sand on the seashore. And then on toi) 

 of it all. people usually get well where you 

 do not do anything. How, then, are'we 

 rcasoudblii to decide lliat it was arnica or 

 camphor' that pprforined the cure? (Jod 

 gives us reason, judgment, wisdom, discre- 

 tion, oi' whatever we may call it. Are we 

 using that good judgment" which he gave us, 

 or are we trusting to what we have heard 

 folks say, and to supiMstitions handed downV 



Let nie use an illustration. If you take a 

 dozen cards and tear each one in two in the 



I middle, then shake up the lil pieces, you 

 might, after a little trying, pick out iwo 

 pieces that would match ; that is, you could 

 find a pair of pieces that would lit together 

 just as they were before beitig torn. If you 

 I do not know how long it wdl take, try it. 

 j Now, instead of a dozen pieces, suppose we 

 I take a hundred. It might take you half a 

 I day to matcli even one card ; but suppose 

 instead of a hundred you make it a thou- 

 sand, or even ten thousand : instead of put- 

 ting the pieces in a heap, scatter them over 

 the fields. Is it at all likely that you would 

 ever get two pieces that would lit as they 

 were originally':' How. then, did anybody 

 ever find out that a mint is good for iis'ijidiii'^ 

 Our stenographer suggests, that as arnica is 

 : a poison it probably has some effect one way 

 ' or the other on the flesh. ]3ut plenty of 

 i things are recommended as remedies that 

 ; are not poisonous at all. Take the remedies 

 for beestings, for instance. Enough are 

 recommended to fill a book ; and yet I think 

 I I can prove conclusively to anybody who 

 I will use his good judgment and reason, that 

 not one of these remedies that has ever been 

 recommended has any effect on the sting, 

 one way or the other. 



nNow. it may be, little friends, that Uncle 

 Amos is a little extreme in his views, and 

 may be you will exercise your judgment and 

 good sense in not accepting all his teachings, 

 and that is just what I want you to do. Use 

 the discretion and wisdom and understand- 

 ing that God has implanted in your little 

 hearts, exactly as 1 1 uber used his" discretion 

 ' and nnderstanding when he insisted that 

 j nobody should touch his sprained wrist. 



A TRIP TO THE HOT SPRINGS OF CAL- 

 IFORNIA. 



Also quite a little about Bees. 



FUOM AUNT KATIE HILTON. 



EAR CHILDREN:— Do you want to take a trip 

 with me to the Montccito Mot Spriiij,'sV If so, 

 come along-, for I am 8:oing'. Hero comes the 

 four-horse staj>:e. Hurry up, for we have 

 si.xty miles to go to-day. There, now we are 

 all fl.ved, and off we go. Isn't it delightfiiiy The 

 easy rocking- of the stage, the nice cushions at our 

 back and on the seat, soften all .jolts, and the 

 balmy air of the morning, with the occasional 

 glances of the grand hills, make us feel happy, even 

 if we have been on the sick list, and still feel weak. 

 " Why, where are wc going V" says one, as the 

 stage seems to be standing- almost j)erpcndicularly. 

 Soon the splash of the horses' feet in the water tells 

 us we are crossing the Santa Vne/ River. The 

 chicks look out and catch grlimpses of trout in the 

 rapid stream. Many brooks come from the moun- 

 tains, and the trout come down with the watei-. 

 This delightful ride after an early lireakfast makes 

 us hungry, ami wo partake of the Inneh put up by 

 thoiig'htfiil fi-iends; and, refresluMl li.\- a drink fi-om 

 the first brook we come to, we bound along until 

 eleven o'clock, when wc stop for dinner. It is i)ret- 

 ty early, but it is now or never, so we pile into the 

 little "building- and rest and eat until we sec the 

 fresh horses being put on to the stage. We climb 

 into our seats, and away we go. Now we are 



