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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



fishing' I won'tbesick, I just know I won't." 

 If his mother lets him go fishing- (of course, 

 it is not the proper thing for the mother to 

 do) it is just as he predicted. He has not 

 an ache, and is not sick a bit — never felt 

 better in his life. 



Now I am going to say something that 

 may be a mistake. I think on the whole I 

 will not say it — I will only suggest it. When 

 I went to Dr. Salisbury (and Dr. Lewis 

 later) they examined my urine and told me 

 what the trouble was, and prescribed a 

 beef diet. When I suggested I did not be- 

 lieve that even the beef diet would stop my 

 malarial chills, they were so emphatic and 

 positive, and they explained it all out so 

 plainly with their scientific instruments and 

 superior knowledge, I could not help believ- 

 ing they were right. I once said to one of 

 them, "Why, doctor, how is it possible that 

 you persuade so many people — even those 

 who have been all their lives in the habit 

 of being a slave to their appetites, to under- 

 take this terrible ordeal?" 



I had been through the ordeal, not only 

 weeks but months, and I knew what it was. 

 The reply was something like this: 



" Oh ! we know we are right, and they 

 soon become convinced that we are right, 

 and then they get well and strong. " 



Well, now, my suggestion is that proba- 

 bly a lot of this may be explained in the 

 way Terry has outlined it. Why, of course 

 this explains a lot of the new treatments — 

 Christian science, telepathy, absent treat- 

 ment, etc. It is not only unnecessary to see 

 the doctor and hear him talk, but they have 

 acquired such skill of late that they write a 

 little circular, like the one Terry paid S5.00 

 for, and this circular will have so much en- 

 ergy and vim in it (they used to call it "an- 

 imal magnetism") that he, the author, 

 makes people believe what he says. They 

 eat what ihey please ; and if their faith 

 holds out they are all right. Now, then, 

 can the mind of a sick man be well by just 

 the force of his own will? I do not dare say 

 he can ; but I will say he can to a great ex- 

 tent. Then, again, here is a perplexing 

 question : How is it that sickness comes up- 

 on us when we are honestly working hard 

 at our appointed tasks — yes, the tasks that 

 we love? Why <lo we get sick? Where 

 does sickness come from? Dowiesays sick- 

 ness is of the Devil. Well, perhaps Dowie 

 has got hold of a great truth or a partial 

 truth. I don't know but we might as well 

 say it is the evil one as to lay it to some 

 human beingthat puts«o//c«s intoour heads 

 about sickness. 



Every little while some wise man pops 

 up and says, " Go on about your work, and 

 do not pay any attention to your aches and 

 pains. Do not even talk to your friends 

 about your faintness and indigestion. Do 

 not tell j'our wife. Eat whatever nature 

 seems to crave, and eat in moderation, and 

 do not listen to the suggestion (shall I say 

 of the Devil?) of quack-medicine advertise- 

 ments. Many people get aches and pains 

 by reading advertisements. The druggists 



are kept alive (and prospering) because 

 the drugs and the advertisements on the 

 bottles inspire people with faith. Do you 

 remember the druggist's clerk who told us 

 that he noticed that people always got bet- 

 ter, no matter what medicine they bought? 

 They were aU good. Terry's story would 

 indicate, however, that the bottles on the 

 druggist's shelves have nothing to do with 

 the cures performed. It is simply the pa- 

 tient's faith in the wrapper. If he gets it 

 into his head that the medicine is the thing 

 he needs, it proves to be so. 



Terry is a little rough on the family doc- 

 tor where he tells about the doctor's deci- 

 sion from a single examination of the urine. 

 If there is any thing in such examinations, 

 they should be made daily through quite a 

 period. If bad symptoms occur when the 

 urine is strongly alkaline, instead of acid, 

 we are getting right at the root of the mat- 

 ter. This doctor was very ready to acknowl- 

 edge that it was probably too much alka- 

 line instead of too much acid. 



When I read friend Terry's story I had 

 been craving fruit, but did not dare eat it. 

 Even strawberries, when they first began 

 to ripen, seemed to distress me, and I was 

 wondering how it happened. Well, after 

 reading Terry's story I went and made a 

 good bowlful ofhot lemonade, and drank it 

 just before going to bed. I slept remarka- 

 bly well till daylight. In fact, I had made 

 up my mind such would be the case after 

 reading Terry's story. It gave me faith. 

 The next morning I ate a great dishful of 

 strawberries, and the same for dinner and 

 supper. That was a week ago. I have 

 been using them freely ever}' day since, and 

 I told Mrs. Root this morning that I had as 

 much vim and vigor and energy as I ever 

 had before in my life. 



May God be praised for the privilege of 

 doing what I choose, and still feel well ; 

 and may God give us faith in his wondrous 

 loving kindness; and may he teach us to 

 avoid ruts and notions ; and, above all, may 

 he lead us away from the suggestions put in 

 our minds by the evil one. 



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