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human being were just as anxious and just 

 as ready to decide all questions without 

 self biasing' the judgment! Where one is 

 truly " hungering and thirf^ting after rigiit- 

 ecrsness " it ought not to take him very 

 long to settle all such questions as the one 

 I have illustrated above- and such a course, 

 as I understand it, is " the life that wins."* 



1 believe that just now our best authcir- 

 ities recognize two important elements in 

 figuring on better vegetables or better do- 

 mestic animals. 1. Heredity and then en- 

 vironment. With these nine precious chick- 

 ens I have heredity — at least I suppose I 

 have — from the Eglantine Farm by paying 

 for it. And now it is my great pleasure to 

 furnish the best possible environment for 

 tliese liigh-pressure chicks. It seems to me 

 tliey Hy and scratch and tear around at a 

 bigger rate than I have ever had chickens 

 of a like age do before. By the way, I 

 forgot to note in the proper place some 

 newspaper reports this remarkable hen 

 jjroduced eggs in one year that weighed 

 twelve times as much as she herself did. It 

 is said that she eats about a half more food 

 than an ordinary hen, and that, while it 

 requires about 100 days for the ordinary 

 moult, it took her only 50 days, and then 

 slie commenced laying again. Her weight 

 is 3 lbs. 14 ounces. 



Before closing, let me go back a little to 

 this matter of improvement in farm stock. 

 From the little pamphlet sent out by the 

 Eglantine Farm, Greensboro, Md., I clip 

 the following: 



And we desire to give full rredit to Mr. Tom 

 Barron, whose personal help and profe-ssional inter- 

 est have followed our work. We have made every 

 female bird on the farm. We follow the Mendel 

 laws of heredity. 



Notice the expression. " We have made 

 every female biid on the farm." That is, 

 they laid the plan, selected a path, and went 

 to work to build \\]) a superior strain of 

 egg-producing White Leghorns. They went 

 to work as a cari^enter starts out to build a 

 house or a machinist to make a new ma- 

 chine; and then they let the Delaware 

 College take the product and report the 

 result to the world. 



* Under circumstances like these we are often 

 inclined to think it. is entirely an affair of our own ; 

 nobody knows anything about it. We can decide 

 one way or the other, and the great wide world will 

 never be any the wiser or know anything about it. 

 At such times as these it is well to keep in mind 

 that other brief little text, " Thou God seest rae." 

 Instead of thinking that we alone are t.o decide, let 

 us think rather of that beautiful poem that we gave 

 the readers of Gleaning: some time ago — " .Vlone 

 with God." And may we not strive, in our effort 

 for that " victorious life," to feel always and under 

 all circumstances, that God is with us — that there 

 is no possibility of escaping the fact expressed in 

 the brief text, "Thou God seest me?" 



KAVING SUNDAY ON SATURDAY. 



T have been reading your Homes for the last ten 

 ycar.«. I don't believe I have mis.sed one paper, and 

 I have enjoyed them and profited hy t>liem. I am 

 told by some of my friends that Sunday is llie first 

 day of the Meek, and that God l)les'ied the sevtnth 

 day, or Saturday, and made it the sabbath. It is 

 not convenient for me to keep the seventh day, and 

 I wish you would point me to the time and place 

 where God gave authority for the change. I should 

 like to think as you do in this matter: and certainly 

 a man of your position and influence would not 

 teach anything witliout first looking into the matter 

 for good reasons lor his position. So I look to you 

 for enlightenment, and I am sure you can help me. 



Fennville, Mich., Oct. 16. E. H. Jackson. 



My good friend, if you have been reading 

 my department of Gleanings for ten years 

 past it seems to me you must have noticed 

 \vhat I have said about having Sunday on 

 Saturday. Suggest to the good friends who 

 insist that mankind would be better, and 

 tliat God would be better pleased by such 

 an arrangement that they call Monday the 

 first day of the week, for it really is the 

 fiisl business day, and then we'll have peace 

 and harmony. But oiie of the Advent 

 friends replied when I suggested t lie above, 

 " We won't have it so.'" Once inore, on 

 the opposite side of the eai'th they could 

 not have Sunday on the same day we do, 

 because it's midnight ; and there is an is- 

 land in the sea where- there is a dispute 

 about which day is Sunday. Part of the 

 inhabitants came in from the east and part 

 from the west, and the matter isn't settled 

 and cannot be settled unless the people 

 agree to call a certain day Sunday. As I 

 see it, there is nothing in the Bible that 

 does tell or r-an tell wliich day is Sunday; 

 and it behoo\es us as Christian people and 

 followers of the Lord Jesus Christ to agree 

 about Sunday as well as otlier things and 

 tunt in and work together. 



If we could agree on voting so as to do 

 away Avith the liquor business, and in the 

 same way do away with ware and blood- 

 shed, it seems to me it would be a thousand 

 times more important than wasting our 

 lime about which dav should be Sundav. 



CAN A CHRISTIAN GO TO WART 



In reply to my footnote on p. 1084, Dec, 

 15, A. F. Foster replies as below : 



Let me say that desperadoes and criminals might 

 be treated as we treat the dangerously insane — 

 restrain, confine, restore, and reform if possible, as 

 we would a member of our own family. Let none 

 1)6 set at liberty until judged safe. For us who have 

 learned the perfect law, it seems easy and safest 

 and a method God has promised to bless. 



Nampa, Ida., Jan. 8. A. F. Foster. 



But, my dear brother, it often takes a 

 deal of fiyhting to " restrain, confine," etc. 

 As I pen these lines, April 6, our nation is 

 spending untold thousands in the effort to 



