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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1. 



veritable devils. I do not know but I can go 

 with Dr. Dowie and use that term for those 

 who deliberately recommend their patients to 

 use quinine and whisky for the grip. Perhaps 

 the)' do not realize it nor mean to do it ; but 

 they are certainly doing the Devil's work when 

 they tell a man to use such a remedy as that 

 whenever the grip troubles hi*n. Some drug- 

 gists may be in the Devil's service — those, for 

 instance, that stand behind the sign of a drug- 

 store and then make their money by selling 

 whisky indiscriminately ; but God forbid that 

 we should in this sweeping way call all drug- 

 gists and all doctors "devils." Dr. Dowie 

 makes some other serious mistakes in his ve- 

 hement denunciation. In one of his articles 

 one might almost think he classes the average 

 minister of the gospel with the trio mentioned 

 above; but I sincerely hope he does not mean 

 that. 



After reading the above exceedingly kind 

 and Christianlike letter, and reading the 

 Leaves of Healing sent me at an opportune 

 moment, I began praying earnestly for wisdom 

 in regard to this matter of remedies, not alone 

 that my own pain and distress might be stop- 

 ed, but that I might guide and direct others. 

 I had been using powerful liniments to stop 

 my toothache, and had got along pretty well ; 

 but the malady increased more and more. 

 The liniment was needed on my face and in 

 my mouth. I used these powerful drugs until 

 pieces of skin the size of a finger-nail came off 

 from the inside of my mouth near the gums. 

 I also used the liniment in and around my ear, 

 and I began wondering whether it was the in- 

 tention of the great Father above that we 

 should depend on things of this kind for re- 

 lief. While thinking over the matter I went 

 into a warm closet near by and knelt down 

 and prayed very earnestly, not only for relief, 

 but for wisdom that I might direct others.* I 

 remember wondering, as I rose to my feet, if 

 it were possible some strange thing might 

 happen so this pain would be suddenly taken 

 away; and my face begau to brighten, even 

 amid the pain, as a glimmer of faith began 

 to creep into my heart. Then I remembered 

 the picture I give you above ; and it occurred 

 to me that some of the readers of Gleanings 

 said, when I gave the same illustration years 

 ago, that this hot-water apparatus was just 

 the thing for cleansing the nostrils and ears 

 when one had ague in the face or cold and 

 catarrh in the head. 



* Some of the friends who read Gleanings express 

 wonder and surprise that I should speak thus boldly 

 right out in print about kneeling in my closet, and 

 praying for wisdom or about other things that trouble 

 me. I know this is unusual ; and were it not for my 

 great desire to help others along the same line. I 

 would not do it; in fact, I often hesitate. But, dear 

 friend, if I should tell you of going into a doctor's of- 

 fice, and having a long earnest talk with him, nobody 

 would think it strange; and why should we be back- 

 ward or embarrassed in telling about consulting the 

 Great Physician, who holds even the winds and the 

 waves in the hollow of his hand? Again, there are 

 great sanitariums that have been built up on this very 

 matter of taith cure, or relief that has come through 

 prayer. 'I'here are so many different organizations of 

 this kind ju^t now that such pr ceedings need not o > 

 casion surprise or remark. The point I would make 

 is that God both hears and heals in the humblest 

 home as well as in an establishment like Zion's Tab- 

 ernacle in Chicago 



APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING THE NOSTRILS,. 

 THROAT, AND EARS WITH HOT WATER. 



The materials were 

 right at hand, and in 

 a few minutes I was 

 passing a stream of hot 

 water — just as hot as 

 it could be borne — into 

 my nostrils, first one 

 side and then the oth- 

 er. The effect of the 

 warmth in getting the 

 water clear through 

 the nostrils into the 

 throat began to make 

 me sneeze ; and with 

 the sneezing came a 

 discharge that had ac- 

 cumulated in the nos- 

 trils and near the pas- 

 sages to the ear ; and, 

 sure enough, the pain 

 was gone (almost as if 

 by miracle), and it was 

 done, too, wi.hout drugs or liniment ol any 

 sort — just hot water and nothing else.* Of 

 course, this was only temporary relief : but it 

 was ever so much better than the strong lini- 

 ment. I got along in this way quite comfort- 

 ably until the malady became so much worse 

 that the water treatment gave relief for only 

 a very short period. I managed to get through 

 the night, and got a little sleep, but in the 

 morning things seemed to be rather worse. 

 Once more I went into the closet, and prayed. 

 This time there seemed to be no answ r er to the 

 prayer. While considering the matter I re- 

 membered that the prophet Elijah, when he 

 told the servant to go up and look toward the 

 sea, was told by the servant that there was 

 nothing. Then the prophet said, " Go again." 

 And it was not till he had gone seven times 

 that he saw a little cloud appear. I then went 

 into my closet, and prayed again. When I 

 arose I had the same experience as before. 

 There was a glimmer of faith that something 

 was coming; and then it occurred to me that 

 the little stream of water through the nostrils, 

 was insufficient, and if I could place the whole 

 side of my head in very warm water the out- 

 side application of heat and moisture would 

 aid the other. I thought of the vapor baths 

 that are so much advertised nowadays, but 

 none was handy. In a minute I procured a. 

 wash-basin, and some water as hot as my face 

 would stand it without blistering, and placed 

 it on the edge of the cook-stove, where the 

 heat would be kept up to the proper point, and 

 in a few minutes I was again free from pain. 

 No more liniment or toothache cures were- 

 used ; but it was three or four days before the 

 trouble began to let up. The suffering was 

 greatest in the night, notwithstanding rubber 



* At the present time, nearly two weeks since the 

 above occurred, I have occasional touches of the ear- 

 ache; but this is banished almost instantly by simply 

 cleansing the nostrils with hot water as indicated 

 above; and one application gives me relief for several 

 hours, and sometimes for a whole day. This comes 

 right in line, as you notice, with my old hobby of doc- 

 toring without medicine. Pure air, pure water, and 

 wholesome food — has anybody yet discovered how 

 much these may do to get us well and keep us well ? 



