1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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will ever g-et a copper in payment, as for 

 their wealthiest customers. Of course, this 

 is within the bounds of reason. When a 

 physician is told to spare no expense in the 

 effort to save life, of course he orders many 

 thing's he would not be expected to order 

 under other circumstances. I am not only 

 working- but praying for wisdom in this 

 very matter; and with all the light I can 

 gather up, my opinion is that our safest 

 course, as a rule, is to follow the advice of 

 our family physician. 



You are right, my good friend. I was 

 born in a log house, and my parents were 

 poor; but when the family doctor said there 

 was very little chance of life when I was 

 only two years old, my parents, poor as 

 they were, called a counsel of two other 

 neighboring physicians. One of these doc- 

 tors said later that it was not their medi- 

 cine that pulled me back from the grave so 

 much as it was my mothers's prayers; so 

 you see it would be the most natural thing 

 in the world for me to believe in praying- 

 for the sick. 



Dear friend, I have been trying to assure 

 mankind that God is a present help in trou- 

 ble; and I am trj'ing hard to keep my spir- 

 itual affairs " up-to-date. " So far as mak- 

 ing money is concerned, I think I can say 

 truthfully that I am not at present at work 

 at any thing to make money. I am here in 

 the factory a part of every day to give such 

 counsel and assistance as I can give; but I 

 have no employment on my hands for mak- 

 ing money directly. Most of the time I keep 

 busy by making suggestions and adjust- 

 ments so that somebody's work will be easier 

 than it has been heretofore. The thought 

 is expressed beautifully in some kind words 

 that came on a postal card, which I submit 

 below : 



My dear 5/>-'— Gleanings for April 1, the very last 

 par igiaph as to keeping machinery in repair — that's a 

 grand word you have there: '' I for^ et all about being 

 tired; and tiien I do really enjoy helping the world 

 along by repairing or making adjustments, so that 

 somebody's work is easier than it has been heretofore." 

 Amen, friend Root. I almost think the whole duty of 

 man is summed up there. Do you remember that oth- 

 er grand word of that grand world's man, Carlyle ? 

 "There is in man a higher than love of happine-s; he 

 can do without happiness, and instead thereof Jind 

 blessedness." The revelation of my duty that comes to 

 me often incites me to preaching publicly, and stirring 

 up faith and righteous effort in others; and such duty, 

 undertaken often in a woeful sense of weakness and 

 even utter collapse, does bring its due reward of con- 

 tentment and blessedness; but far more of my life this 

 past twenty years has been spent (outside of the strug- 

 gle to provide things honest for daily existence) in 

 that same work of repairs and adjustments for others. 

 It is often thankless work; there is little glory attach- 

 ed to it, but there is great blessedness. 



George Rose. 



The good brother who sends this card did 

 not give his address; but by looking him up 

 I find he is a nurseryman and florist as 

 well as a bee keeper, at No. 50 Great Char- 

 lotte St., Liverpool, England. I wonder 

 if all florists are good men. They certain- 

 ly ought to be. 



In regard to missing" heaven, I hope you 

 will not think I am insincere when I say 

 that I have not been concerned so much of 

 late years about missing heaven myself as 



I have for fear that some others whom I 

 have tried to lead from earth to heaven 

 should finally miss that goal. I do not 

 think your letter harsh nor unkind at all; 

 and I thank you for the great compliment 

 you pay me in 3'our concluding words. 

 May God lead us both into all truth. 



And now I want to submit a letter from 

 another brother. We may not be able to in- 

 dorse all he says; but nevertheless he gives 

 us some valuable suggestions — suggestions 

 that I think are in line with the present 

 trend of this matter of the prevention and 

 cure of disease: 



A WORD ABOUT HEALTH. 



God''talked with Moses in an audible voice as one 

 man 'talks to another. He gave some health talks. 

 I do not eat any of those things he forbade. I think 

 he knew what is healthy. For me to eat what is un- 

 healthyiis to insult God. Statistics tell us that of ev- 

 ery 1000 gentiles born, one-half will die before 40 

 years of age. *. Of 1000 Jews born, one-half will live to 

 be 71 years of age. Our drug doctors try to cure, but 

 do very little to prevent people from getting sick. Our 

 God is not so short-sighted as to write a book telling 

 how to cure. He wr tes directions how to live so 

 that this sickness will be unknown. A. I. R., we are 

 a slifFnecked lot. When one is started in life wrong 

 it is hard work to get him wholly right at once. Olive 

 oil is one of the best remedies known It is now a fad 

 with doctors to cut for appendicitis. Those who do not 

 cut out the appendix, but have the patient fast, using 

 a pint or more of olive oil internally and externally, 

 with proper hot and cold water remedies, cure more 

 of their patients than those who cut them open. 



Constipation is dangerous, because it poisons the 

 whole system. 1 know, for I have been there. I have 

 used a syringe and water, but have no use or need of 

 the syringe now. How can one cure himself? Well, 

 listen. I know a person, now 37 years old, who was 

 born constipated. He had to use a syringe and water 

 for years. He got so constipated that the best drug 

 doctors of I,os Angeles gave him up. They did all 

 they could with drugs, and at this stage he was about 

 to drop into the grave. Another doctor took his case 

 who uses "suggestion " as a means of cure, together 

 with massage, water, breathing, etc. Well, he cured 

 him. He had to turn over a new leaf in the first place, 

 and eat proper food Then one must use his mtnd or 

 iinll. or, as this doctor calls it, " suggest'on," or as / 

 would call it, pray that your bowels might move, and 

 try to move them as you might try to movt your hand 

 or foot. It is the right thing to ask God to help you, 

 for "in him you live and move." This doctor worked, 

 I might say pounded, his liver till he could feel and 

 hear the bile slop about. He says " suggestion" is the 

 foundation of " Christian science," but he teaches how 

 to keep well after you are cured. In either case you 

 must have some " faith." 



Now you know Bro. Root, if you are posted, that 

 thousands of our Catholic brethren, by making a pil- 

 grimage to some shrine to bathe, or touch the bones of 

 some dead saint, are cured of their disease. It is 

 " faith " that does the cure Electropoise. oxydonor, 

 etc., are worthless, but faith is a valuable asset. 



I can not see any science in "Christian science;" but 

 I believe in prayer; and that the prayer of any one, 

 together with faith, will cure many ca.'^es, no matter 

 whether the person is a Catholic, a Christian Scien- 

 tist, a Theosophist, or a Congregationalist. Those who 

 use suggest ion as a cure admit it to be a prayer, even 

 though not begun nor closed in theorthordox fashion. 

 Alexander Dowie is far from being infallible. He is 

 human The world hates him because he is so rough, 

 and hacks into its weak and sore spots so as to hurt. 

 His prayers, and faith on the part of the ones pra3'ed 

 for, effect cures. 



There are many strange things we do not under- 

 .stand. Many of our ablest scientists nmv " admit that 

 a thought is something that can be weighed and 

 measured," and it can travel fast without any wires. 

 It can be sent to God. You pray for your friend or 

 child who is far distant, and it is sure to go where 

 sent. 



By a little practice you can move a light line with a 

 plumb, if it hangs near, by just concentrating your 

 mind on it — make it swing east and west, or north and 

 south, or in a circle. W. E. Little. 



Ferris, Cal. 



