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OMRI AND AHAB Saaday School Lesson for .Isa. 22, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT-1 King? 16:15-33. Mem ory Verses; 25. 30. GOLDEN TEXT-"Righteousness Ex tlteth a nation: but sin ls a-reproach to any people."-Prov. 14:3?. . TIME-Om ri reigned 12 years from B. C m (or 893) to 923 (or 8S2). Abac, his soo. from B. C. 925-904 (861). PLACE-They were kings of Israel, with their capital at Samaria. In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Orari to reign over Israel. Qmri was the general of Israel's army In the unsettled and troublous times that followed Baa sha's reign. Before his -call to be king we know nothing about bim. He was the sixth king of Israel, and founded the fourth dynasty, which lasted sixty years, with four kings. When first brought to notice he was fighting for his country against the Philistines at * Gibbethon. Another general named Timri was put forward as king, and there was war. for several years be tween these two warriors. Finally Omri had full possession of the king dom. His first work.was to choose a bet ter site for his capital, for Tirzah fiad doubtless been injured in the siege, and its location was not the best for defense. He bought the hill Samaria for hie capital. This choice proved his sagacity as a- general and states man. The superior strategic position of Samaria, a conical hill standing 400 * feet above the base of the. broad val ley, is evidenced by the long siege which it endured, and the stout resist ance which it offered to the armies of Sargon. Omri wrought evil. We ar? not told the particulars of Omri's sin, tut Mi cah says: "For the statutes of Omri are kept" "We cannot doubt that, these 'statutes of Omri' were, measures adopted for mose completely^ isolating .the people of Israel from the services of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, and of perpetuating-perhaps of in creasing-their idolatrous practices." Men thought bim rich and prosperous, but God looks on the heart and not cn outward appearances. The retribution for Omri's course did not come all at once for the na tion, but the s?eds of ruin were com ing up like upas trees. Ahab, the son of Omri, followed his father Omri In bis military traditions and prowess; but still more in the idolatrous ten dencies, the debased morality, the al liance with heathen nations, the neg lect of true religion, the downward course toward ruin, which character ized Omri's reign. Instead of being a positive,, creative forcu for good, he ?ailed with the downward tide, as a "boat without engine or rower down the rapids of Niagara toward the falls. "It takes live fish to swim'up stream." "A boy's will ls the wind's will." Ahab "was a man not destitute of ability, not devoid of patriotism; not wanting In courage, at times not un kingly, but\purfectly indifferent to'the obligations, vader which he lay as ruler of a nation which God had taken Into covenant with himself." He was Egotistical, covetous, sel?sh, cruel, the worst of Israel's evil kings. He took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Eth baal. "The shadow of Queen Jezebel falls dark for many years over the history of Israel and Judah. She was one of those masterful, indomitable, implac able wemen who, -when fate places them in .exalted power, leave a terri ble mark on the annals of nations. What the Empress Irene was In the history of Constantinople, or the 'She wolf of Ftance' in that of England, or Catherine de Medici in th?t of France, that Jezebel was in the his tory of Palestine. Jezebel stands out on the page of sacred history as the first supporter of religious persecution Such fanat icism is a frequent concomitant of guilt. -She is;the authentic authoress of priestly Inquisitions. If no king so completely "sold himself to work wickedness" as Ahab, it was because "Jezebel his wife stirred him up." He went and served Baal, and wor shipped him. The downward course of religion is marked if not measured by the fact that while Solomon al lowed his heathen1 wives to worship their gods, but did not join in the wor ship, Ahab rejected Jehovah by join ing his wife in worshiping the idol. It is of the utmost importance to avoid false friendships and compan ionship with the bad. Every power for good in true friendship is a power for evil' In the false. Our environ ment, the persons with whom we come in contact, especially If we admire them, are among the most potent fac tors for good or evil ir. our liveB. A great deal pf evil comes from false friendship. The danger is doubly great because it comes under the guise of friendliness-a*wolf in sheep's clothing. "Give me," says one, "a roaring devil rather than a sleeping one; for a si sat?n g devil makes me slumber, but roaRng ones provoke me to run to my Master." . Many are ruined by bad com panionship! How large a part of drunkenness comes frc m the custom of social drinking! How many are kept away from Christ and heaven by fear of their friends! , Looking Ahead. We cannot change the record of the past by bemoaning It; we can not straighten the crooked furrows by looking back over the distance we have come, but keep your eye to the front and make the rest of the fur rows straight.-Rev. P. M. Strayer, Presbyterian, Rochester, N. Y. Loving the Right Life. Exercise neighborliness, feel kindly .to your brother man, show an Interest In his success, live and let live, find pleasure in love and interest in oth ers. It is our selfishness that accounts for much of our stress.-Rev. J. B. Remensnyder, Lutheran, New York city. A Sour Heart. It takes more than a holy fellowship to sweeten a sour heart.-Rev. George Clarke, Peck, Methodist-Episcopalian. New York city. SQUIRRELS RANG TELEPHONE Max Examines Box Where Wires Were Converged and Finds lt Nearly Full of Nuts. A lady In. Englewood, N. J., was called to the telephone one day by the operator, who inquired, "What do you want?" "Nothing at all," she responded. "Your bell rang," Insisted the oper ator. "None of us rang it," replied the lady. . Enquired Of course every time a spot light t offers a splendid chance to talk aboi Dut 'pon honor now, we are not hirinj The general reader seldom cares n A few may have read lately some be interested in the following : Some time ago a disagreement ai Endorsed our foods by letter, but v, advertising, to which we objected. Thc "Weekly" discontinued ins? they were negotiating for some chang ing and shape of the advertisements, s our manager gave instructions to or. quit advertising altogether in that "V Quite a time after the advertising attack came. We replied in newspa; Then came libel suits from both . Generally tiresome to the public That "Weekly" has attacked ma table manufacturers. Our Company seems. - promine writer to go after, hunt,for some littli twist and present it to the public uric r vv . . Distortion No. 1 ?tated that we have been accustomed to advertise Grape-Nuts and Postum ns "cure-alls for everything." t It has never been the policy of this Company .to advertise Grape-Nuts or Pos tum to cure anything. We Bay that in cases where coffee disa grees and is causing sickness its dismissal will remove the cause, of the trouble, and we suggest the uee^?f Postuin for the reason that it furnishes c. hot palatable morning beverage, and contains natural elements from the'grain which .can be used by nature to 'assist in rebuilding nerve centers that coffee may have broken down. Likewise Grape-Nuts food dees not cure anything, but it does assist nature tremendously in rebuilding, provided the 'undigestible food that has been used is discontinued and Grape-Nuts taken in its place. Charge No. 2 states that the passage of the National Food & Drugs Act com pelled us to drop from fhe packages fue assertion? regarding the nutritive v.lue of Grape-Nuts. We "have* never been *r'compellcd" to make any change. Since the beginning it has been a univer sal rule to print clearly cn every package exactly What the contents are mad.' of. Before the passage of rhe Pure Food Law the packages stated that Grape-Nuts food was made of wheat wi barley; We did not esteem the small amount of salt and yeast as ?f value enough to speak of, but after the new Law came in we became as technical as the offi cials at Washington and added the words "yeast" and "salt." although we have no recollection of being asked to. ' We believed that our statement that Grape-Nuts will supply elements to nour ish the brain and nerve centers is true and bring authorities to support the fact. Some st?te chemists believed this a gross exaggeration and inasmuch as the Food Dept. at Washington could easily harass grocers, pending a trial on the disputed nuWion. we concluded that much the better way would be to elim inate "from our packages such claims, however certain we may be that the claims are true. Another statement objected to read as follows: "The svyfom ?".Pl "herb a greater amount of nourishment from one pound of Grape-Nuts than .from ten pounds of meat, wheat, oats, or bread." Some Department chemists deceive, themselves as well as the public. "Caloried" is the word which defines a unit of heat determined by the amount necessary to raise one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. On this basis a table of calories is prepared showing the percentage of different kinds of food. Butter shows 8.60: Grape-Nuts 3.90; milk 0.70. Remember the statement on the package spoke of the nourishment the system would absorb, but did not speak of the calories cf heat contained in it, for the heat is not nourishment, and the nourishment cannot be judged by the number of heat units, notwithstanding the fact that certain chemists would have the nnblic believe so. ^ ? As an illustration: Attempt to feed a man. sixty days on butter alone, with its 8.80 calories. The man would die be fore the experiment had run sixty days. Then, take' Grape-Nuts with 3.90 and milk with 0.70,-the two combined equal 4.6S-about one-half the number of calo ries contained in butter. The man fed for sixty days on this food would be well nourished, and could live not only sixty It may be remembere ourselves by placing facts be A good "scrap" is n you are right In the case lately triec have unbounded faith in the Our suits against the ' The next day a man appeared from the telephone office. "I have come to see what makes your telephone bell ring most of the time," he remarked. But none of the family could en lighten him, and he saw nothing about lt which was out bf order. The next day he came again, took the telephone entirely to pieces, ex- ' amlned the full length of the wire. Still, he could find nothing amiss, and still at. the central office the little (lame kept burning In the niche dodi-' cated to this particular family. This Indicated that their bell was ringing, i ls turned on from any source at the merits of the products, g mat "Weekly." ?uch for the details of "scraps." i articles attacking us and may rose with a "Weekly." They 'anted to change the form of rting our advertisements while ;es they wanted in the word ind during this correspondence ir Advertising* Department to Meekly." ; had been left out, an editorial pers and the scrap was on. sides, and some harsh words. ny prominent men and repu :nt enough for a sensational e spot to criticise, then distort, 1er scare heads. days, but six months on that food alone, and we do not hesitate to say from our long knowledge of the sustaining power of the food that a man at the end of sixty days would be of practically the. same weight as when he started,-if he be a man of normal weight. We will suppose that from his work he lost a pound a day and made up .a pound each day from food. If that prem ise proved to be true the-man in sixty days' time would make sixty pounds of. tissue to replace what had been lost, and this would be done_ on Grape-Nuts and milk with half the number of calories. of. butter, cpon which no one can sustain ' life. Therefore, we have reason to believe that our contention is right that con centrated food like Grape-Nuts, which is partly, digested and ready for easy as similation by the body, presents more nourishment that the system will ab sorb than many other forms of food, and we will further say that in cases of diges tive troubles where meat, white bread and oats cannot be digested, that Grape Nuts and milk COD tain more nourish ment that thc system will absorb than many pounds of these other foods. Distortion No. 3 chartres that our tes timonials were practically all paid fer and re-writtcn in Pattie Creek. These testimonials were demanded by the opposing lawyers. Naturally this demand was refused, for they are held in vaults and kept, safe to prove the truth, and are not to be delivered up on demand of enemies. Testimony at the trial brought out the fact that we never printed a single testi monial that we did not have the genuine letter back of. . Many of these letters came spontaneously. A record was kept of twehe hundred and four (1204) let ters received in one month from people who wrote that they had cither entirely recovered their health or been benefited by following our . suggestions on food and beverages. On three or four occasions in the past ten or twelve years we printed broadcast in papers offers of prizes to users of Postum and Grape-Nuts.-two hundred $1.00 prizes, one hundred $2.00, twenty of $5.00 and five of $10.00 each.-'tnfin? thnt rich mu"t be an honest letter with name and addre-'s. We agreed not to pub lish names, but to furnish them to en quirers by letter. These letter writers very generally answered those who wrote to them, and verified the truth of the . statements. Under this agreement not to publish names literally scores of letters came from doctora. We kept our word and neither printed their names or surren dered the letters. Right here notice an "imitation spasm." The "Weekly" nays: "Post got those testi monials by advertising for them. In New York he used for that purpose .the New York Magazine of - whose editor .< is now in the Federal Penitentiary for fraudulent use of the mails. "For exam ple. Post announced in that magazine in 1907. etc.," (then follows our prize com petition). . We used nen riv all of the papers and magazines in New York and the rest of America, but the sensational writer gives the impression to his readers that the only magazine we used'wan one "whose editor is now in the Federal Penitentiary," etc., something that we know nothing of the truth of now. and never did. Space was bought in the magazine spoken of on a business basis for the reason that it went to a good class of readers. The incident seems to have furnished an op portunity for a designing writer to de ceive his readers. We look upon honest human testimony dthat we were first attacked ifpre that great jury-The aore or less comforting now 1, an appeal has been taken t( ultimate decision of our Am 'weekly" have not yet been t r % ? ? - \ At I0t it occurred to the authori ties tor examine a little box, of about the size of an ordinary suit case, which' was nailed up against a large tree .'close by the house. In this box several telephone wires converged. It was a sort of neigh borhood switchboard. What waa the surprise of the tele phone men to find this box nearly filled with nuts. They took out three peach baskets full, each one holding at least two quarts. Rioting among the nuts were the youthful members of a- promising Bquirrel family-Christian Herald. O < So an attorney from New Y< months in Battle Creek hoping to dirt in the factories. After t?rele twenty-five, of our workmen an single one testified that the foods i ingredients printed on the packa? being the choicest obtainable-all ; the purest, and every part of t scrupulously clean. That all proved disappointin verjr few factories, hospitals, privs chens that could stand the close s; an enemy paid to find dirt or impi In any ordinary kitchen or fa< magnify and make a noise about. But he failed utterly with tl Twenty to thirty thousand peoplt ly and we never enquire whethe: makes no difference to us. He next turned to discover that could be criticized. An analysis of the methods "Weekly" may interest some rea? by one and open them out for ins] harsh words and make no refei growth and methods of the "W cussion to the questions now at i: from men and women as to the means by which they recovered health a? of tre mendous value to those in search of it. Our business has been conducted from the very first day upon lines -of strict integ rity and we never. yet have published a false testimonial 'of human experience. Many, of these letters covered nrmerous sheets; some, if printed, would spread over' half. a parfe of newspaper. It we would 'attempt to print one such letter in every^onip^of the thousands of ptipere and .maga^nf?a we use, the cost for printing that one letter would run into many thou sanda of dollars. We boil, down . these letters exactly as a newspaper writer boils his news,-stick ing ; sacredly to the important facts and eliminating details about the family and other unimportant matters. This work of boiling down, or editing, is done honestly, and with a full knowledge of our responsibility, but' notice the art of, the "twister" in the way -he presents to his readers this matter of testimonials. Distortion' No. 4. This is a bad one. It reads as follows: "The only famous physician whose name was signed to a testimonial was produced in Court by Colliers and turned out to be a poor old brokendown homeopath, who is now work ing in a printing establishment. He re ceived ten dollars ($10.00) for writing his testimonial." We will wacer ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) with any investigator that we have, i' subject to inspection of any fair committee, upwards of three hundred (300) communications from physicians, many of them expressing thc highest com .mendation of our products, but these will not now or ever be turned over to the publisher for his use. Notice the statement in this charge: "The /mly famous physician whose name was signed to Postum testimonial, etc." The truth is, this Dr. Underwood was one of a great many physicians who have not only written commendatory words about the value of our foods, but even' now and then some physician writes an article on coffee or on food, and sends it to us with a sugesti?n of compensation for his ' time and medical knowledge. Previous to the time when we employed physicians in our own business, . we oc casionally emploved a doctor to write an article on coffee, always insisting that the article be an honest expression of his opinion and research. The 'Weekly" hunted up this physician, and because be seemed to be poor, and as it says, "brokendown," had him brought to Court to be exposed before a jury as the "only physician that had ever endorsed Orape-Nuts," but much to the chagrin of :he_ "Weekly," when our attor neys . asked him if the article he wrote about coffee was true he replied, "yes." Statemert No. 5 reads: "The health officers of Mich., Mainep> Penn., New Hamp., and other "states in their official bulletins have for years been denouncing as preposterous and fraudulent the claims made by the Postum Cereal Company." We do not recall any criticism except from Mich., Penn., Maine and S. Dakota. The. average reader might think that the opinions expressed by the State Offi cials are always correct, but that con clusion is not borne out by facts. A? ip illustration: About thirteen years niro the Dairy and Food Commission of Michigan for some personal reason printed a severe criticism on us for making Pos tum of Barley (according to his official chemist) at market price and Sellins too high. ; He was shown there was never a grain bf harley used in Postum. Hi3 re port was false and misleading. The gov ernor dismissed him. We believe that most of the state j and have since defended Public. j r and then, if you know > the higher courts. We eri?an Tribunals. i rie<jL They are for libel j ')! / V ? ' . ' ) ' BACHELORS 2 CENTS A POUND M. Casey, Wealthy 8t. Loulsan, Weigh ing 267 Pounds, ls Bid In for $5 as Prize. St. Louis.-St. Louis bachelors are worth less than 2 cents a pound, ac-, cording to the market established at the St Vincent de Paul's church, when 267-pound Martin Casey, the wealthy head of a broom manufactur ing concern, was bid in for $5 after the young woman who had won him as a prize in a church celebration re IOU rtain "weekl? ark spent more or less time for find impurities in our foods, or :ss spying about he summoned id took their testimony. Every ire made of exactly the grain and ;es ; the wheat, barley and corn thoroughly cleaned-the water of he factories and \ machinery kfcpt g to the "Weekly." There are rte-or hotel and restaurant kit pying at unexpected times and by arities of some kind. :tory he would find something to he Postum Work^and products. ; go through the factories annual r they are there to spy or not. It something about our advertising and distorted statements of the ders, sp we take up the items one. pection. We will "chain up" the renee in this article to the birth, eekly" but try to coufine the dis? ssue. officials are honest, and on the ' other hand we are firmly convinced that some of their conclusions cannot he substan tiated by facts in scientific research. They never criticize the purity of our foods, for so much we are thankful. If our conclusions in regard to its be ing a brain food differ'from theirs, and' we are both honest, they have rather the advantage,' because under the law they can order us to eliminate from the pack age any statement if it disagrees: with their opinion. Otherwise they would harass grocers. Spasm No. 6 says: "The most dan gerous thing in the world for one threat ened with appendicitis is to eat any food whatever. Notwithstanding he knew that danger, C. W. Post advertised Grape-Nuts at fifteen cents a package for those so threatened." Thin ii intended to muddle the reader into believing that we put out Grape-Nuts as a cure for appendicitis. Mr. Post, himself, has had probably as wide experience as any other man in America in the study and observation of food as related to the digestive organs, and we proved in Court by the physicians and surgeons on the witness stand that the predominntine caupe o* appendicitis is undigested food, and that :t is neces sary to quit eating food, and when th.-? bony requires food again, use a pre-di gested food, or at least one easy of diges tion. Dr. Ochsher in his work on appendicitis refers directly to the usc . of the well known pre-digested foods that can be obtained on the market. He also brought out the interesting fact that in "after treatment" it is advantageous to take on a pre-digested food. The price of the package (referred to by the weekly) is not known by us to have any relation to the question. Our advice to stop using indigestible food in bowel troubles and to use Grape Nuts food has been a great blessing to tens of thousands of people, and we hepe will continue to bless a good many more in the" succeeding years. No. 7 is a live wire. It refers to C. W. Post and his studies and experience in "Suggestive Therapeutics." or "Mental Healing" which further lead to a most careful and systematic study of the ef fect of the mind on the digestive and oth er organs of the body. He attended clinics in Europe and fitted himself for. a future career in which he has become known as one of the food experts of the world, fitted to judge both from the material as well aa the mental Bide of the question. For about eight years previous to 1891 he was an invalid. In that year, after being under the care of several well known physicians, he was quickly healed, by what to him was a curious and not well-understood method. Sufficient to say he became a well man, weighing about 183 pounds. This experience challenged his investi gation into causes of disease and their amelioration. Those studies and experi ences developed a very profound rever ence for a Supreme Power which directly operates upon the human being, and this reverence for the Infinite became to him a form of religion which included honesty of purpose towards his fellow-man. A statement which will he indorsed by every one who knows him closely. He will make a public announcement in detail of these facts, and the Postum Company will cause that statement to bo published in newspapers and magazines and $500,000.00 is asked After all the sm< clearly and never be forj perfectly pure, have don< menials are real and tn of commercial integrity. "Th fused to accept him. The winner of the prize was Miss Dora Kohler of St Louis. "Do you want to take him home with you?" said Father Nugent, who had charge of the affair. "Really," replied Miss Kohler, "he's very nice, but I don't think I want him." "Very well, then, I'll have to sell him to the highest bidder, and I'll start the auction with a bid of $5." As no one made a higher bid, Fath er Nugent handed to Miss Kohler a $6 bill in lieu of 267 pounds of Casey. ?? B?B? - ! Some Battle Cr? We the undersigned certify testimonial letter been printed t which did not have behind it a g to be an honest statement To the best of our knowlec ceive upwards of fifty thousand ( This company has never k untruthful statement regarding i M. K. HOWE, Treasurer. (With L. J. LAMSON, Inspector of Ad F. C GRANDIN, Advertising MJ R. M. STERRETT, M. D., Phy CHESTON SYER, Advt Writ? CHARLES W. GREEN, Advt HARRY E. BURT, Genera! Su] H. C HAWK, Assistant to Chai C W. POST, Chairman. (With i . ' v in due time. We BU weest the reader look for it. Prevarication No. 8. "Post spends nearly a million a year in advertising and relies on that to keep out of the news Eapers the dangerous nature cf the fraud e is perpetrating on the public." The Postum Company does pay out up wards of a million a year for trade m nouncements. Newspaper men believe our statements truthful or they would not print them. Large numbers of newspa per men use our products. They are capable of telling the' public .whether or not we "bribe" them. , It may have escaped notice that we did not "bribe" that particular weekly. No. 9 states that the amount of the verdict j will "be devoted by the 'weekly* to fvnociTur fraud." f This is almost real humor. We have .two Ruits ponding against the "weekly," total, $500,000.00. We haven't "devoted" the sum to any particular purpose yet. Item 10 is a "discovery" that wheat bran is a part of Postum. But the criticism neglected to mention that for years every Postum package an nounced in plain type that the outer cov ering of wheat (bran), made part of the beverage. They ignorantly fell into a trap here, not knowing enough of food value to know that 'Taka-Diastase" the article used by physicians the world over for ''starch in digestion" is made from "wheat bran." So we use that part of the wheat berry because it contains the element needed to develop the valuable diastase in man ufacture. Good Postum is impossible without this part. These self-appointed critics do maka some laughable blunders through ignor ance, but-be patient. Item 11 is an illustration cf the squjrnv ing and twisting of the sensational writer delivering distorted matter to his read ers. While on the witness stand Mr. Po^t testified to his studies in Anatomy, Phys! ology, Dietetics and Psychology,-all re lating to the preparation and digestion of food. Asked to name authorities studied he mentioned six or eight from memory, and commented on some clinical expe rience covering several years in annual journeys to Europe. Now notice the distortion. (Copy from the printed criticism.) "He (Post) pointed out a pile of books in possession of his attorneys as the very ones he had read." (Notice.-"the very ones he had read,: leading the reader to believe that they were the only ones.) "Did you consult the books from these editions?" was asked. "From those and various editions," an swered Post. The attorney "picked up book after book from the pile and showed the title pages to the jury,-all except two had Seen published since 1905." This is an example of distortion and false coloring to produce an unfavorable impression. The facts are Mr. Post purposely intro duced tr.? latest editions that could be obtained of prominent authorities to prove by them the truth of his statements re Earding appendicitis and the analysis of rain, also the latest conclusions in re gard to the action of thc digestive organs. These works are: Human Physiology, by Raymond. Physiological Chemistry, by Simon. Digestive Glands, by Pawlow. Hand Book of Appendicitis., by Ochs I as damages, and may the ri )ke of legal battle blows aw gotten that Postum, Grape Ni 3 good honest service to hun lthful and the business condi Lere's a Reason stun? Cereal Co., Ltd., What Waa the Matter With Mose*? Percy-Miss Jane, did Moses har? the same after-dinner complaint my papa's got? Miss Jane-Gracious me, Percy! Whatever do you mean, my dear? Percy-Well, lt Bays here the Lord jave Moses two tablets.-Llppincott's Magazine. The Sculptor Philosopher. The sculptor had just finished the .'.pello Belvedere. "I am satisfied," he cried. "Every man who passes thinks lt looks like himself." ibuse us. Facts sek, Michigan, December 30, 1910* that never to our knowledge has a )y the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., enuine letter signed, and believed Ige and belief the Company has re 50,000) genuine testimonial letters. nowingly made nor permitted an ts products or its methods. Company about 14 years ) vtS. (With Company about years.) mager. (With Company about 13 years,) Vician in charge of Scientific* Dep't. (With Company about 4K years.) ?T. (With Company about 3 years.) "Writer. (With Company about 5 years.) p'L' (With Company about 13 years.) irman. (With' Company about 7 years.) . y '. -j Company 16 years, from the beginning.) Physiological Chemistry, by Eamman sten. Biochemie System of Medicine, bj Carey. '. . The "Weekly",carefully eliminates -froir its printed account testimony regardinj the years of research and study, by Mr, Post in fitting himself for bis. work, and; would lead-the. reader of tho distorted article to believe that his education - began since 1905. Distortion No. 12 .reports Mr. Post ai a "dodging witness." , ' His eye is not of the shifty land ob served in the head of one of his ch iel critics. ?On the witness stand Mr: Post looks quietly but very steadily straight in to the eyes of the haggling, twisting law yer, trying by all his art to ask double barreled questions and bull-doze and con fuse a witness. # The "dodging" it seems consisted) ol replying, "I don't know." Opposing counsel holds a book in hij hand while he queries, T want to know if there is a singla thing in your whole boole here that sug gests any particular land of food." Then followed some discussion between attor* ne3's. When Mr. Post was allowed to reply, lie said." "I don't know until I read the book over to see." This book, it turns out, was written by Mr. Post seventeen years ago and prob ably has not been read carefully by him in the last fifteen years. It, would require a remarkable memory to instantly say ? "yes" or "no". as to what a book of 147 papen did or did not contain, without reading it over,-but such conservative and well balanced answers are construed by sensation seekers to be "dodging." The attorney soueht by every art to imoress the Jury with the fact that Mr. Post's belief in the power of Mind in relation to the body branded him as un reliable and worse. The following is quoted from : one oj the questions: (The lawyer reading from the book.) 'The writer of these pages desires te say nothing of himself other than as a simple instrument through which the Di vine Principle chooses to manifest itself by precept and example. "Skill in mental practice is gained in the same way as skill in any department of science-by observation, study, expe rience and the ability to evolve correct conclusions. "Read carefully, thoughtfully no more than twenty pages daily. Afterward seek an easy position where you will not bs disturbed. Relax every muscle. Close your eyes, and go into the silence where mind is plastic to the breathings of spirit and where God talks to the Son. The thoughts from Divine Universal Mind come as winged angels and endow you with a healing power. If you go into the silence humble and trusting, you will como out enriched and greatly strengthened in body by contact even for a short time with the Father of all life and all power. You will feel refreshed in every way and food taken will digest readily, as the ptomach works smoothly when under the influence of a Higher Power." "1 ask you if you did not write that, and if you did not believe it when you wrote it." For a moment the Court Room was in absolute silence. Mr. Post slowly leaned forward over the rail, pointed bis finger at the Arty's face to emnhnsize his reply and with eyes that caused tho^e of the Attorney to drop he said, "Yes, I am proud to say I did." ght man win. ay, the facts will stand out jts, and Post Toasties an ianity for years, the test? ucted on the highest plane >? Battle Creek, Mich.