To Market to Market to Buy... a Fat Hog It’s amazing how much confusion there is out there today regarding what is healthful food.
The world is full of individuals who have fallen prey to all manner of infirmity, sickness and disease-sometimes merely uncomfortable, but more often crippling or even fatal-who, either in ignorance or with supposed superior knowledge, have disregarded the unchangeable health laws.
Hogs! They were created as scavengers; as a rule they are meat-eating animals that clean up anything that is left dead in the fields, etc. If any animal should die in the field and lie in the sun until it is broken open and the maggots and putrefaction have set in, the swine or other scavengers will come and eat up the filth and putrid matter. Scavengers were never meant for human consumption.
Scavengers, such as the swine, are the filthiest and most abominable creatures. In their very nature they are poisonous, diseased and deadly. The flesh of the swine is said by many authorities to be the prime cause of much of our American ill health, causing blood disease, weakness of the stomach, liver troubles, eczema, consumption, tumors, cancer, trichinosis, etc.
The swine’s anatomy has but one poorly constructed stomach arrangement and very limited excretory organs generally. Consequently, in about four hours after the pig has eaten his polluted swill and other putrid, offensive matter, man may eat the same, second hand-off the ribs of the pig.
John Johnson, a farmer of Williams, Iowa, speaks on this subject. He states that the swine in Iowa are principally fed on corn, but “will eat anything we give them. If anything dies, we throw it to the hogs. I have actually seen hogs chewing at the cancer of other hogs and these hogs are shipped to market. Many times cattle are infected from the incurable diseases of the hog called the ‘mad itch.’ It is transmitted by the hog’s saliva left on the corn, which cattle eat. The itching in the cattle becomes so intense they will run from stump to stump until they rub their skin from their mouths and soon die. When the saliva from the hog’s mouth will poison cattle in this way, how can hogs be fit for man to eat?”(1)
Farmers know that when they are feeding cattle, it pays for them to keep hogs, so that the hogs can follow after the cattle, eat the filth from the cattle, and thus turn it into pork for the public market.
Swine have “running sores” under their hoofs. If you ever get the opportunity to visit a farm that raises hogs, lift the front hoof of the hog, and, with just a little pressure, greenish matter will ooze out from between the toes. This is one small outlet for the various heinous poisons that the hog takes into his body. Occasionally this artery becomes stopped up, the poison backs up into his system, and greenish growths are formed in various parts of his body.
“On a close analysis of this filthy scrofulous serum, or the ‘culture’ of its bacilli under varied conditions, it is seen to contain the elements of many dangerous diseases and combinations; yet how toothsome is pickled pig’s feet to ignorance, unbelief, and disobedience.” (2) Read more..
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I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes I have always had a hunger and thirst for God. Once my eyes were opened and I found God, my hunger and thirst were satiated and were replaced with a desire to learn how to walk as close to Him as humanly possible.
I've studied and looked for years now to find God Himself and I couldn't grasp onto what my spiritual heroes of old were saying— I understood the concept but couldn't make it real. Then one night, I was meditating on something I read earlier and then fell asleep. About two hours later I woke up and knew "That's it!". Something changed deep down inside and it clicked! I had found what I was missing! I had found the secret!
I am very, very excited! Now to putting it in practice! I live in the presence of God for only short periods of time. Distractions and worries of life are what take you off the path. The path has been carved though. I know how to get there. I know He's always there waiting.
My search for this path began with the book "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" by Glenn Clark and its first chapter titled "Hind's Feet That Lead to High Places". It brings me joy and much pleasure to be able to share this chapter with you. As you make your feet like hinds feet you will find the path that leads to God Himself. —Louise
Chapter One
Hind's Feet That Lead to High Places
by Glenn Clark
I was sitting alone in a little restaurant waiting for someone to take my order, and looking absent-mindedly out of the window. I felt an inner turmoil, and the whirling wind and the pattering rain outside did not do much to allay my mood. Just then the door opened and in came Dan McArthur.
McArthur was a vigorous young cleric, struggling along in some little out-of-the-way church, a happy-go-lucky, likable chap, the kind one usually expects to go so far and no farther in any field he enters. I had known him in college days. I sprang a little wisecrack about winds bringing breezy guests, but he did not answer me in the old bantering tones. Instead, as he sat down opposite me and reached his hand across, clasping mine with a firm grip, I was aware of a strange new power in his presence. It stirred something in me to the very marrow of my bones. As I looked into his eyes his whole countenance fairly shone.
I asked him what he would have, and after scanning the menu carefully he ordered from it leisurely, and invited me to join him in luncheon for two. I assented, wondering at the indomitable something about him, an atmosphere of dignity and power -- well, I guess you would call it self-unconsciousness -- that I had never noted before.
"What has happened to you?" I finally blurted out. "Have you inherited a million dollars?"
"Greater than that," he smiled, "I have found the water of life."
"Ponce de Leon or monkey glands?" I inquired.
"You wouldn't!" I exclaimed, incredulously, for I had always thought that Dan liked money. "No," he said, buttering his roll. "A millionaire has spent his enthusiasm; mine is all at hand."
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