GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



January, 1920 



Before closing I want to say just a few 

 words about the matter of grace, mention- 

 ed in our first text. What does grace mean 

 - — a word used so often in the Bible? The 

 best explanation I can give is to quote from 

 a blessed old hymn: 



Oh, to grace how great a debtor 

 Daily I'm constrained to bel 



Let thy goodness as a fetter 



Bind my wandering heart to thee. 



There has been quite a little discussion 

 of late whether the Bible is all the very in- 

 spired word of God. Well, maybe I am not 

 strictly orthodox when I declare that, so 

 far as I am concerned, it does not seem to 

 me to make very much difference. I in- 

 sist that this is strictly true; That God's 

 loving words and admonition to the chil- 

 dren of men are most certainly inspired ; 

 and one who reads his Bible attentively and 

 makes use of these most precious promises 

 will have inspiration himself, from on high, 

 that is worth more than all the testimony 

 of the whole wide world. And now, to go 

 a little further, I think the words of the 

 hymn I have just quoted are also insjDired. 

 Read it over and over, and it will give you 

 the best definition of the word " grace " 

 that can be given. 



Now, there is just one more old hymn, 

 by Cowper, that I used to hear sung in 

 camp meeting more than 70 years ago. It 

 contains this: 



E'er since by faith I saw the stream 

 Tliy flowing wounds supply, 



Redeeming love has been my theme. 

 And shall be till I die. 



I told you that some time back it was a 

 great privilege to me, at the time when I 

 took the anesthetic and also when I went 

 up in a flying-machine, to feel the presence 

 with me of the Holy Spirit, even the spirit 

 of our Lord Jesus Christ; and when I got 

 relief from my suffering, the few times 

 when I M'oke up at night, and found my 

 hand and arm were restored, it was a won- 

 derful comfort to think it over, as I drop- 

 ped to sleep again, and to praise the Lord 

 for this sudden and wonderful deliverance 

 from pain. 



" HIGH COST OF LIVING." 



I have made a " big discovery." Yes, 

 another ^' big discovery," and just like the 

 most of my " discoveries," perhaps it is 

 not altogether new. Never mind, I will 

 help the great, wide world once more, to 

 " sit up and take notice." For months past I 

 have been living on shredded wheat bis- 

 cuits and milk. Both are made hot and the 

 biscuits are well l)uttered, and a little salt 

 added. Of course, I have some fruit and a 



baked apple or a little sauce. Occasionally 

 I have an egg, or a little meat, but I don't 

 seem to care much for the latter. On this 

 comparatively cheap diet I am exceedingly 

 well. When we arrived here at our Florida 

 home I found Wesley had harvested some 

 beautiful Cuban flint corn. It was planted 

 when we dug the potatoes. When I saw 

 those beautiful golden, yellow ears, smooth 

 and polished by Nature's own hand, I said, 

 " This ' golden grain ' must surely be good 

 enough to eat." We grow this Cuban flint 

 just because it is so hard and flinty the corn 

 fly in its larval or worm state can't bore 

 into it very much. This feature makes it 

 hard to grind in our little handmill. And 

 now comes my " great discovery." You 

 recall what I have said about Burbank's 

 new popcorn. Well, I have been using 

 quite a lot of popcorn with my milk and 

 shredded wheat. Why not see if Cuban 

 flint won't pop"? It didn't, at least not 

 much. But after it was well parched it 

 ground very easily in the mill, and with 

 hot milk, butter, and salt — I hope you will 

 like it as well as I do. And now you who 

 have taken Gleanings for years, I want you 

 to think back and recall that long ago I got 

 a book on hunting, and this hunting book 

 said a little bag of " ground parched corn " 

 would sustain a hunter on a long tramp bet- 

 ter than any other article of food. In oth- 

 er words, a pound of it would give more 

 strength and endurance for a long hard 

 tramp than a pound of meat, or any other 

 food. The Indians knew this before the 

 time of Columbus. 



Now for the climax. Dr. Kellogg (the 

 " vegetarian " man) threw a bombshell in- 

 to our ranks a few months ago by declaring 

 that it takes close to 10 pounds of grain to 

 make one pound of beef or other meat ; and 

 yet a single pound of that same grain is 

 worth more for food than the pound of 

 meat that cost so much. I referred the 

 matter to Director Thorne of our Ohio Ex- 

 periment Station, and he admitted that it 

 really did take about 10 pounds of grain 

 to produce a pound of meat. The latter 

 part of Kellogg's statement you can all set- 

 tle for yourselves. 



You can " parch " wheat, as well as corn, 

 and when ground in a mill it is just as good 

 as the shredded-wheat biscuits and costs 

 much less. My good son-in-law, J. T, Cal- 

 vert (by the way, he deserves more credit 

 for the success of the A. I. Root Co. than 

 he has ever received), who was on the 

 " shredded-wheat " diet years before I took 

 it up, recently said that the package that 

 costs 15e, almost all over the world, con- 

 tains only 3 cents' worth of wheat. Even 

 if this be true, it is a great boon to humani- 



