The Orien/al Watchman and Herald of 
A MAGAZINE FOR HEALTH HOME AND HAPPINESS 
42nd Year of Publication 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 1951 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Effects of Worry 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Corneal Transplantation 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exercise Can Be Fun! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Cola Poison Campaign 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elimination's Fifth Column 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Facts and Fancies About the 
Heart 
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Intemperance at the Table 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Establishing Normal Vision 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Etc., Etc. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A brief respite. �
R. Krishnan 
EDITORIAL 
FAIR COMPETITION 
F
AIR competition in any situa-
tion in life is an element that 
tends toward human enjoy-
ment and welfare. Games involving 
competition are favoured and pro-
moted by educational institutions as 
a means of developing character. In 
business, competition is often a 
spur to efficiency and good manage-
ment which will give patrons the 
greatest possible value for their 
money and an inhibition to the tak-
ing of unreasonable profit. Competi-
tion frequently will enforce fairness 
in dealing where character alone will 
not induce it. Drives for aid to the 
victims of some great disaster such 
as an earthquake or fire, often give 
participants extra zest, and spur 
their efforts when they are organized 
on the basis of friendly competition. 
Workers in large manufacturing in-
stitutions have in some instances 
greatly enhanced their output when 
organized in groups competing with 
one another, and have turned their 
labour from drudgery to enjoyment. 
Any honest and fair-minded per-
son in whatever walk in life will de-
fend the right of fair and honest 
competition, for it is an element in 
human enjoyment and welfare. An 
athlete who competes only with him-
self will not develop his prowess to 
the same degree nor enjoy his exer-
cise as much as when competing 
with others who are about his equal. 
Meeting competition honestly and 
fairly tends toward efficiency, suc-
cess and general welfare. 
But there is much in the world 
that will not or cannot endure com-
petition and thrive. Much of the 
world is ruled by brute force, vio-
lence, and terrorism instead of reason 
and intelligence. Any business orga-
nization or system of government or 
religion or whatever it may be, that 
will brook no competition once it has 
acquired power to suppress it, is a 
bane to the world. It is a bad being 
that cannot serve the world for its 
greatest good or enjoyment. Crea-
tures of this character in the form 
of governments and religions have 
waxed and waned, and the baneful 
effects of their existence are now a 
matter of regrettable history. But 
there are still many more like them, 
and their number seems to be in-
creasing as time goes on. Among 
them may be mentioned such gov-
ernments as those of Hitler, Mus-
solini, pre-war Japan, Communism, 
some labour unions, and certain 
powerful groups of followers of reli-
gion. Though these oppose one an-
other they are not averse to employ-
ing the same methods and means to 
overcome opposition or competition 
against themselves. 
The spirit is one and the same un-
der different forms and their char-
acter of the same ilk. Their 
philosophies and doctrines make it a 
criminal offence to differ from their 
policies or to dissent from their doc-
trines, and when they are in power, 
imprisonment, loss of property or 
even death is the penalty. 
There are countries where religion 
is a monopoly of the state, where 
dissent is not tolerated or if toler-
ated at all is made an almost unbear-
able experience; for liberty of con-
science and freedom of expression 
would jeopardize the appearance of 
prosperity of religion protected by 
civil might. Such religious groups 
fear the logic, truth and peaceable 
persuasion of minorities who do not 
conform, for truth is mightier than 
the sword, wherefore truth, logic, 
and reason, are suppressed with ter-
rorism, brutality, and persecution 
generated in vicious minds. Such 
powers exercise the brute might of 
beasts but not the power of manly 
character which meets competition 
in a fair and manly manner. Ter-
rorism, brutality, torture and per-
secution are the means employed by 
brute characters to achieve their ob-
jectives. They are bad systems even 
though they be the majority and 
have acquired the brute might to im-
pose their will on majority and 
minority alike to the detriment and 
suffering of mankind. 
Groups of this character work 
with cunning and subtlety when they 
are in the minority and before they 
have acquired power, in order to de-
ceive and to put the unwary off their 
guard. They pretend to be con-
cerned about the welfare and happi-
ness of the people, profess great 
loyalty and patriotism, and ostensi-
bly conform to law and order until 
power to control has been acquired. 
They make the appearance of being 
honest, fair and sympathetic where 
there is corruption and indifference 
to the welfare of the people, but 
once they get the power to control 
their real character is revealed, their 
fangs bared and their claws un-
covered. 
In countries where governments 
of this character are in power men 
and women are arrested for no 
crime other than the suspicion or 
dislike for them by some government 
agent; convictions follow without 
trial or opportunity for defence and 
sentences are executed for no of-
fence other than dissent, competition, 
or indifference to policies and prac-
tices of the ruling power. Courage 
to express conviction or sometimes 
merely refraining from joining a 
fawning group of sycophants whose 
submission has its basis in fear, is a 
punishable offence. It is a crime to 
ask for information or explanation 
of reasons for arrest. There is no 
freedom quietly to go about one's 
business letting others do the same. 
The fictitious virtues of government 
must be loudly proclaimed, and one 
who refrains thereby becomes an of-
fender subject to confiscation of 
goods and loss of liberty. There is 
no right to hold property privately, 
to choose work or vocation. It is a 
crime to exercise independence of 
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thought and to have religious con-
viction. Where systems and crea-
tures of this character have acquired 
power they scoff at the promises 
which they made while they were 
small and weak. The promises were 
not made to be kept but merely to 
serve as baits and traps to catch 
those sufficiently naive to have be-
lieved that they were genuine. 
Minorities are temporarily encour-
aged, but later ruthlessly suppressed, 
and all worth of the individual is 
denied. Only as he fits into the sys-
tem without opposition or competi-
tion is he accorded any rights. 
Suppression of fair and peaceable 
competition is a denial of human 
rights. It is a denial of the right to 
persuade by reason and dissemina-
tion of knowledge. To suppress com-
petition by brute force and violence 
and persecution is as wrong and as 
bad as to compete by such means. 
Those are the spirit, the methods, 
and means of hoodlums, gangsters 
and other criminals, and when men 
in positions of power resort to their 
use to overcome fair competition and 
to suppress knowledge and truth and 
reason they assume the character of 
giant gangsters. And when their vio-
lence is directed against inoffensive 
and lawful minorities they liken 
themselves to the big bully who robs 
the little child of his rightfully pos-
sessed sweets. In some countries to-
day religion manifests this character 
as much as communism does in 
other countries. 
Individuals who make it their 
business to foment discontent and 
rebellion against constituted govern-
ment, and who illegally, whether 
openly or secretly, endeavour to de-
stroy law and order, are rightfully 
subject to -restraint and punishment 
by process of law. But calling atten-
tion to corruption and abuses in high 
places and producing proof of the 
same is the lawful right of all citi-
zens. Suggestions for improvement, 
appeals for relief from oppression, 
or even proposals to abolish that 
which is and to substitute that which 
is believed to be better should 
jeopardize no one's liberty or pos-
sessions. But much of the world is 
in the grip of powers that will brook 
no competition. Communism can 
meet competition only with brute 
force and violence. Other forms of 
government and many religions have 
employed such means, and many 
still do so. They may for a season 
hold the masses in their grip by 
sheer force and brutality, and thus 
greatly enhance the misery of the 
world. Any organization or system 
or philosophy that denies mankind 
the right of fair competition, or 
which cannot or will not meet it by 
fair and manly means, is a bad or-
ganization or system which is a bane 
to the world. 
Chemistry 
"If this age survives long enough to 
be called anything," says "Public Opin-
ion," "it will probably be known as the 
chemical age. No sooner does some sad, 
scientific sage announce that we are 
desperately short of something, than up 
pops a chemist and reveals that he has 
produced a perfectly good synthetic 
substitute." 
Water 
65,000 gallons of water weighing 270 
tons are needed to process one ton of 
steel. 
Fur 
Imitation wolf fur is being made from 
nylon fibres to meet the shortage of 
wolf furs which are in demand by air 
force soldiers in Arctic regions. The new
is said to rival its natural 
counterpart in lustre, softness and wear-
ability. The cost is one fifth that of the 
natural fur. 
Language 
It is said that 2,796 different lan-
guages divide mankind into groups, 
many antipathetic or hostile to one 
another. 
Paper 
An Uruguayan paper-making expert is 
reported to be making a ton of news-
print from two tons of rice or wheat 
straw by means of a new process which 
he has recently developed. 
DDT 
An increasing shortage of DDT and 
other chlorine based insecticides, 
coupled with sharply rising prices, is 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 
threatening the collapse of the world-
wide campaign against insect-borne dis-
eases, according to a report from the 
offices of the World Health Organiza-
tion. Production in the United States 
cannot meet the demand. Neither can 
the smaller and more expensive produc-
tion in Europe meet the deficit. 
Milk 
Milk has been found to be an excellent 
plant food which increases production 
considerably when applied to the soil. 
Korea 
Korea is an important mining coun-
try producing iron, tungsten, molybde-
num, graphite, manganese, aluminium, 
cobalt, nickel, copper, lead, zinc, and 
other ores. 
Insurance 
Lloyds of London, the world's most 
famous insurance firm, handles no life 
insurance. 
Train 
In September 1950 two locomotives 
pulled 206 wagons loaded with 15,000 
tons of coal from West Virginia into 
Toledo, Ohio, U. S. A. The train was 
nearly two miles long. 
1951 
Saucers 
It is announced on behalf of the 
U. S. Naval Research, that. the "flying 
saucers" which excited so much com-
ment within the last year or two were 
actually "enormous sounding balloons," 
which were being used ,for research. 
Now that "project saucer" has been dis-
continued, there is no longer need for 
secrecy on a scientific basis. 
Cruelty 
An association dedicated to the pun-
ishment of persons guilty of cruelty to 
animals has been formed in Denmark. 
Already several cart drivers found 
cruelly beating their horses have been 
soundly whipped by the organized ani-
mal lovers. 
Hexaplets 
In Lemu village, East Pakistan, Mrs. 
Irfanuddin, aged twenty-five, gave birth 
to six babies, "hexaplets," all of which 
survived for about forty-eight hours 
and then died. 
Master Clock 
Twenty-four hours a day periodic 
time signals are sent by the United 
States to thousands of radio-receiving 
points in the Western Hemisphere, Asia, 
Africa, and the Far East. These im- 
3 
Voices from prison speak from ex-
perience on the matter of criminal 
offences springing spontaneously 
from drinking situations. The fol-
lowing personal statements on the 
relationship between their drinking 
liquor and their offence were made 
to the editor of an outstanding jour-
nal. All were in prison. 
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No. 21923. "My advice to all 
young men is to leave drink alone. 
... Every good opportunity I ever 
had has been lost through drinking." 
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No. 21969. "Most of my drinking 
has been social drinking. I have no 
specific craving. I am certain, how-
ever, that if it had not been for 
drink, I would not be here." 
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No. 21991. "I was very drunk and 
did not know what took place. I do 
not even know if I am guilty or not. 
I have never been in trouble when I 
was sober, only when I am drink-
ing." 
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No. 22060. "I was under the influ-
ence of drink at the time I was ar-
rested and had been drinking heavily. 
Alcohol has been involved every time 
I have been in trouble.... Once I 
start to drink I can't stop." 
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No. 22075. "Every time I get 
drunk I get in trouble. I have never 
been in difficulty but when I have 
been drinking.... Better leave drink 
alone if you want to live happily. I 
have lost my home, my car, my fam-
ily, because of liquor." 
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"Exceptionally few persons who 
become habitual drinkers are ever 
able of their own volition to break 
the habit, because alcohol weakens 
the will power." 
pulses are carried by more than 200,000 
miles of American telegraph lines to 
keep the nation "on time." 
Called peeps, the signals are trans-
mitted every two hours day and night 
during the last five minutes of the even 
hours. Their sources a master clock 
in the U. S. Naval Observatory, located 
on one of the highest sites above sea 
level in Washington. 
In measuring the passage of twenty-
four hours, a naval astronomer watches 
each night for a certain -star, sighted 
the previous night, to reappear at a 
given point in his telescope. If the 
master clock disagrees with the as-
tronomer's finding, the clock discrepancy 
is corrected—even to a thousandth of a 
second. 
Motoring 
American motorists are driving over 
short sections of roads that are marked 
temporarily by the bright coloured, car-
toonlike signs of Europe's international 
highways. At the same time motorists 
in France, Chile, Turkey, India, and 
Southern Rhodesia are using sections of 
roads marked with the yellow-and-
black curlicues, curves, and angles of 
the American highway markers. It is 
all a part of the U. N. safety tests to 
determine how the two systems of road-
marking might be better adapted for 
world understanding. 
Farm Journal 
The world's first, farm bulletin has 
been found by an archological expe-
dition of the University of Chicago Ori-
ental Institute and the University 
Museum of Philadelphia. Written in 
cuniform script in the Sumerian lan-
guage on a clay tablet, the instructions 
to farmers are believed to be 3,700 
years old. 
Thunderstorms 
At any given moment there are about 
1,800 thunderstorms in progress all 
around the earth according to Dr. 
Robert E. Holzer, Professor of Geo-
physics at. the University of California. 
These storms recharge the earth's elec-
trical field and keep it healthfully 
"pegative." 
Ball Pens 
The U. S. State Department has 
banned the use of ball-point pens for 
official business, because the ink or 
other writing fluid lacks permanence. 
Population 
According to Dr. Julian Huxley the 
world's population is increasing at the 
rate of 40 per minute. 
Sweet Potatoes 
One medium sized sweet potato gives 
at least one third of the vitamin C 
needed for a day, according to nutri-
tioni:ts. Oranges and other citrus fruits 
are also excellent sources of this vita-
min. 
Webs 
Scientists say that in proportion to 
its weight spiders' webs are stronger 
than steel. 
4 
ONCE met a man about fifty-
eight years of age who was a 
railway locomotive driver. The 
railway company for which he 
worked had a rule that no one whose 
blood pressure exceeded one hun- 
dred and sixty could continue to 
serve as a driver. The rule was in 
recognition of the possibility that a 
driver with high blood pressure 
might sustain a stroke while on 
duty. 
The driver was in very good gen-
eral health. He was not overweight, 
his muscles were in good condition, 
and he had not been losing time be-
cause of illness. He had worked for 
the railway company for many years 
and was within two years of the time 
when he could retire with pension. 
But he had begun to worry, a year 
or two before I saw him, about the 
possibility of his developing high 
blood pressure and thus being dis-
qualified from service as a driver 
before he reached the time for his 
retirement. The railway required its 
drivers to have periodic physical ex-
aminations.. For years this man's 
blood pressure had been between one 
hundred and thirty, and one hun-
dred and forty. But after he became 
anxious about the possibility of high 
blood pressure, his pressure began 
to rise slowly. At his next examina-
tion the reading was one hundred 
and fifty. This slight increase tended 
to alarm him, and focus his thoughts 
on his blood pressure. The next time 
he was examined, the reading was 
one hundred and sixty five. And so 
the company doctor sent him to the 
hospital, hoping that he might re-
ceive such treatment as would reduce 
his blood pressure and enable him 
to fill out his remaining two years 
of service for the railway company. 
The interesting thing about the 
driver's case was that his blood pres-
sure did not stay at one hundred and 
sixty-five all the time. When readings 
were taken on the spur of the _mo-
ment, they were about one hundred 
and forty. But when the patient knew 
in advance that his blood pressure 
was to be measured, the readings 
were consistently higher. The prob-
lem in this case, then, centred 
around helping the driver to over-
come his worry. 
Worry is a form of fear, and fear 
is an intense emotion which has defi-
nite effects on the organs of the 
body. When a person becomes 
afraid, the physiological effects of 
the fear prepare him to meet an 
emergency. You were able to observe 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
THE' EFFECTS OF WORRY 
these effects even when you were a 
child. Perhaps you were on your way 
home from a neighbour's one dark 
night, when you heard a rustling in 
the leaves just a little way from 
where you were walking. Your child-
ish imagination prompted the 
thought that some animal was slip-
ping up behind you. You became 
fearul and broke into a _run which 
brought you home more quickly than 
you had ever come home before. By 
the time you arrived home, your 
heart was pounding and you were 
breathing deeply. 
While you were running home you 
had not felt tired. But after you had 
had time to regain your composure, 
you began to feel weary. Actually 
you had been able to run faster and 
farther than under ordinary circum-
stances. This was because your re-
sponse to fear had prepared you to 
meet the emergency. Had it been 
possible for a physician to examine 
you at the time of your fright, he 
would have found that your blood 
pressure was elevated, and that the 
amount of blood sugar (energy 
food) in your blood was much 
greater than usual. In addition, 
there would have been evidence that 
HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. 
your digestive organs had ceased 
their functions during the period of 
your fright. 
These various effects were for the 
purpose of enabling you to protect 
yourself. With higher blood pressure, 
faster heart, and more blood sugar 
available, your muscles were able to 
act quickly and powerfully. The 
paralysis of your digestive organs 
was for the purpose of conserving 
energy, for the time being, while 
your body was involved in an all-
out attempt to escape from danger. 
The organs of the body respond 
to fear and worry according to this 
same pattern regardless of whether 
the fear results from the rustling of 
leaves on a dark night, or whether it 
results, as in the case of the driver, 
from worry over possible loss of em-
ployment. This was the reason that 
every time the driver became anxious 
over his blood pressure, the reading 
went up. 
In the case of a child who is 
frightened on his way home on a 
dark night, the blood pressure re- 
turns to normal as soon as his fright 
vanishes. Even in the case of the 
driver there were evidences that his 
blood pressure did not remain above 
one hundred and sixty for 
any long period of time. 
Our bodies are designed 
in such a way that when 
worries persist for long 
periods, the effects on the 
organs tend to become 
permanent. The driver 
was therefore laying the 
foundation for chronic 
high blood pressure sim-
ply because his worry was 
persistent. 
Dr. Hans Selye, Direc- 
tor �
of t h e Institute 
of �
Experimental Medicine a n d 
Surgery at t h e University of 
Montreal, has carried on some mas-
terful research studies which pro-
vide a new insight into the manner 
in which chronic disease can result 
from worries and anxieties. Dr. Selye 
has observed that the various kinds 
of stresses (physical or mental) have 
about the same influence on the or-
gans. Stresses exert their influence 
through the intervention of the pitui-
tary and adrenal glands. These 
glands produce chemical substances 
which are carried by the blood 
stream and which serve to place the 
other organs of the body on an 
emergency footing. This provision 
works very well so long as the stress 
factor is not prolonged. 
Under conditions of prolonged 
stress, such as a condition of worry 
extending over a long period, the 
chemical substances produced by 
the pituitary and adrenal glands ex-
ert harmful influences. Peptic ulcer 
may be caused by just such a mech-
anism. A prolonged stress, even of 
an 'emotional nature may produce 
damage to the kidneys. This, in turn, 
may cause the damaged kidneys to 
produce a substance which causes a 
contraction of the blood vessels 
throughout the body, bringing about 
chronic high blood pressure. Another 
possible systemic effect of pro-
longed stress is the stimulation of 
the growth of connective tissue. This, 
according to Dr. Selye's experi-
ments, may lay the foundation for 
arthritis. 
Recognizing, as I believe you will 
from the preceding statements, that 
worry can have the effect of de-
stroying health, it is proper for you 
to ask, "What can I do to prevent 
worry?" 
Worry is a form of phantasy—
a kind of make-believe. The person 
who worries says to himself, "How 
terrible it would be if such and such 
were to happen!" Actually, this ter-
rible thing has not yet happened—
it is only a possibility. 
The first step in the control and 
prevention of worry is to recognize 
it for what it is—a form of phan-
tasy. Once the individual under-
stands that his imagination is play-
ing an unpleasant trick on him, his 
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Worry has definite effects 
on the organs of the body 
and destroys health. 
CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION 
situation will be robbed of half its 
terror. The realities of life are bad 
enough without spending nervous 
energy in worry over things that 
have not happened. 
A second suggestion for the con-
trol of worry is to adopt and culti-
vate an attitude by which life is ac-
cepted as an interesting challenge. 
You should say to yourself, "Uncer-
tainty is what makes life interesting. 
If I knew in advance everything that 
is going to happen, half the fun of 
living would be subtracted. Bring on 
the surprises—good fortunes, trage-
dies, or whatever they are—I have 
always been able to make adjust-
ments in the past; I can do it again 
in the future." 
And if our tendency to worry con-
tinues in spite of the self-adminis-
tered psychotherapy suggested above, 
Then I have a third suggestion. Take 
a pencil and paper and deliberately 
write out a statement of your wor-
ries. As you see this statement take 
form before your eyes, some of your 
worries will disappear just because 
they seem so unnecessary. But writ-
ing a statement also has the advan-
tage of stimulating you to devise 
solutions to the problems which 
cause you to worry. Seeing your 
worries in black and white enables 
you to think things through imper-
sonally. The worry comes out into 
the open. as it were. enabling you to 
attack it directly. 
Another suggestion for the handl-
ing of worry is to seek out some wise 
person in whom you have confidence 
and ask him to let you discuss your 
problem. You can tell by the way 
this person reacts to your story 
whether he thinks your worries are 
well-founded or whether you are 
over-concerned. Making such an ob-
servation will help to orient you so 
that you can make a more logical ap-
proach to the problem. Furthermore, 
bringing another person into the 
picture increases your chances of 
finding a solution. Regardless of who 
it is, this other person will have 
some suggestions as to how your 
troubles may be eased. 
Worry crowds in on a person's 
thinking when he is not busy. There-
fore, another way to combat worry 
is to keep busy, thus allowing less 
time for worry. And if your activity 
is of a physical nature, it will bene-
fit you by making you weary 
enough, by the end of the day, so 
that you will fall asleep. A good 
night's sleep will make you feel bet- 
RECENTLY 
Corneal Transplanta-
tion was performed by Dr. M. C. 
Modi on Mr. Muragaya of Chitla-
durg, 42 years old, who was bind 
due to corneal defect. A most suc-
cessful result has been obtained in 
this case. 
A part of the cornea of his right 
eye was replaced with an identical 
piece of the eye of an old lady whose 
eye was removed because it was 
painful and blind with retrobulber 
tumour. He was blind before opera-
tion but after Corneal Transplanta-
tion his normal sight was restored. 
This kind of operation is very rare 
in this country. 
Compared with other countries the 
number of blind people in India is 
enormous. There are nearly one and 
half million totally blind people in 
India and about four million parti-
ally blind. Among them there are 
many blind due to corneal defects; 
so corneal transplantation will re-
store the sight of many blind per-
sons. 
The types of the eyes that are 
used for corneal transplantation in-
clude cadaver eyes of all ages, the 
eyes of stillborn babies, the eyes 
from living patients who required 
enucleation because of posterior seg-
ment tumours, or tumours of orbit, 
injuries, glaucoma, optic atrophy, 
etc. 
One very serious drawback to the 
full use of the surgical knowledge 
and skill in this field is the inex-
cusable lack of corneas that should 
be 'grafted into the eyes of living 
blind persons. Everyone realizes that 
deaths occur every day in this coun-
try and that if the corneas could be 
removed from each of those, it 
would be possible to restore the 
sight of many blind persons. 
People should- arrange to donate 
their eyes after death and allow the 
corneas of their eyes to be used for 
ter the next day and will give you 
new courage to rise above the con-
templation of your anxieties. 
The last and best suggestion I 
have for the control of worry is to 
review your whole philosophy of life 
with the purpose of confirming your 
belief in a loving heavenly Father 
who watches over His human chil-
dren and who permits only those cir- 
Post operative picture of a patient 
in whose right eye Corneal Transplan-
tation operation was performed by Dr. 
M. C. Moth. 
transplantation to give sight to the 
living blind. 
Eye Banks should be established 
in this country to collect, preserve 
and distribute corneal tissues from 
human eyes for corneal transplanta-
tion to blind persons who have lost 
their sight because of corneal de-
fects. 
The eyes taken from dead persons-
can be preserved in moist physiolo-
gical salt solution, at a temperature of 
six degrees centigrade for 72 hours. 
The corneal tissues taken from those 
eyes can be used for transplantation. 
The eyes should be removed within 
six hours after death. 
The technique of corneal trans-
plantation is simple and the opera-
tion is performed under local 
anwsthesia within 20 minutes by 
Dr. Modi.—Karnatak Ayurved Vi-
dya'peeth Society, Khasbag, Belgaum. 
cumstances to occur which are for 
their best good. Having adopted such 
a philosophy, you can face uncer-
tainties courageously, realizing that 
"all things work together for good 
to them that love God." When your 
faith enables you to believe that God 
is looking after you, there remains 
no good reason for you to be anx-
ious over what may come. 
Blind Can See! 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
Q
UITE often the word exercise 
calls up unpleasant visions of 
prof use perspiration, stiff 
muscles, and aching joints. Webster 
more or less supports this view, de-
fining the term, "To set in action; 
train; exert repeatedly." Perhaps 
this notion of exercise and the set-
ting-up drills that bring forth the 
painful reactions are a heritage 
from Puritan forebears, who believed 
that anything to be good must hurt, 
and the more it hurt the more good 
it was likely to do. Not many people 
welcome this view or its results; in 
fact, most are convinced as early as 
the second day of such a routine that 
surely the devils have been let in 
rather than driven from the body. 
There seems to be something in 
our racial background that gives the 
body beautiful a potent appeal for 
most people. Certain so-called physi-
cal culturists have taken advantage 
of this more or less hidden but very 
human urge. Appeals to the normal 
instinct to glorify physical prowess 
are made through copious use of pic-
tures of super-muscled men and 
beautiful women. Few can honestly 
deny that secretly they admire and 
respect these qualities. The common 
misconception which conceives of 
strength and health as being paral-
lel, if not identical, conditions is 
also used by these individuals to 
snare gullible seekers after health. 
Another approach made by the ex-
ercise charlatans is to shroud their 
"systems" in mystery—holding them 
up as secret and unique methods. 
The same psychology has been used 
by quacks, witch doctors, and medi-
cine men in peddling their waies to 
a credulous public since the dawn of 
recorded history. 
No one questions the value of a 
vigorous, well-co-ordinated, and well- 
proportioned body. A moderate 
amount of regular exercise is neces-
sary to maintain normal muscle tone 
and to stimulate proper activity of 
the other body systems; but muscular 
development for its own sake is pa-
tently absurd. A useful amount of 
strength and physical skill—enough 
to cope with our daily programme 
and some reserve—is desirable and 
even essential; but muscular mon-
strosities are totally out of place in 
modern society, and secret systems 
are utter humbug. Some activities 
are more vigorous than others it is 
Li ue, but there is no magic formula 
to strength and beauty. 
Yet there is an art to exercise. A 
good many of us, sensing something 
out of line with the armchair age, 
which has practically eliminated 
physical exertion while building up 
mental stress and strain to an almost 
unendurable point, would like to 
practise it. Dimly we remember the 
emotional release gained from joyous 
physical activity; the self-expression 
found in games and sports and the 
real pleasure of healthy fatigue fol. 
++♦
♦++ 
FRED V. HEIN, Ph.D. 
4+++++++++++ 
lowing vigorous activity. We long 
to recapture these perceptions of our 
youth. 
The exercise you choose is of lit-
tle importance as long as it is the 
right kind for you. And you don't 
need a gymnasium, an athletic sta-
dium, or a country club for pleasant 
healthful activity. Some find that 
trappings help. Yet the twice-used, 
expensive equipment of some young 
friends of ours have been stored 
away for several years. On the other 
hand, the moderately priced, back-
yard badminton set of our next-door 
neighbours makes its appearance 
with the beginning of good weather 
and never disappears. I know one 
executive and his wife who can en-
joy their exercise only when garbed 
in the latest sports attire and in the 
high-priced environment of the golf 
and yacht clubs. 
But things of this sort are merely 
auxiliaries at best. It is more im-
portant to understand, first of all, 
that exercise is an individual thing 
for each of us, as free as the air we 
breathe. No longer do we judge the 
merit of an activity by the amount 
of perspiration raised. Exercise 
should be fun. Obviously the first 
great step is to find some activity 
calling for a bit of physical effort, 
that you really like to do; for if ex- 
ercise is not pleasurable play, one is 
unlikely to keep at it very long. If 
you have to force yourself to engage 
in it, it probably will be of little 
benefit anyway. After a fair trial, 
if an activity is still just exercise, it 
is time to try something else. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 �
7 
The list is almost inexhaustible: 
hiking, gardening, cycling, swim-
ming, camping, riding, and a host 
of other such activities can all be 
good exercise and may be enjoyed 
alone or with the family. Some may 
find the answer in calisthenics, per-
formed in the privacy of their own 
homes. Checking and recording pro-
gress can be very satisfying. For the 
younger set volleyball, softball, bas-
ketball, and other team games have 
special appeal. 
Once you find something you 
really like to do, have a schedule for 
your play, and stick with it at all 
costs. It can be suggested to family 
and friends that at certain times 
you simply are not available; or bet-
ter still, include them in your ad-
venture into activity. Once you have 
the feel of exercise as a recreational 
refuge, you will seek it quite natur-
ally and automatically. You begin to 
learn the pleasures of escape through 
wholesome physical recreation. You 
come to know the mental, emotional, 
and physical refreshment, and the 
renewed zest for the next day's tasks 
that satisfying exercise can evoke. 
And now a word of caution before 
you go "all out." How long since you 
have had a health examination? An 
annual check up by your doctor is 
good preventive medicine that only 
you can prescribe—a must before 
you start an exercise programme. 
Life may begin at forty; but if you 
are on that threshold or even over 
thirty-five, you are likely to be more 
fat than fit. You need to avoid fast, 
prolonged activity and highly com-
petitive sports, unless you're one of 
the rare individuals accustomed to 
them. And no matter what your age 
is, if you've been long out of train-
ing, you'll need to graduate your re-
turn to full activity. Remember 
"Easy does it." 
Now what can you expect from ex-
ercise? We have agreed that it is 
no magic key to health, although 
suitable work, good nutrition, avoid-
ance of excess, enough sleep and re-
laxation, and proper medical care, 
along with appropriate exercise, are 
the ingredients of a tried and true 
recipe. Intelligently planned exercise 
will aid in maintaining fitness longer 
than otherwise; resistance to illness 
may be increased and physical capa-
cities conserved. It will help to fur-
nish relief from the all-too-prevalent 
pressures of modern living; and, 
most important, it will provide 
added enjoyment in simply being 
alive. 
"That caffein is a 'true' stimulant. 
"That caffein has no secondary or 
depressant effect. 
"That caffein is not habit-forming. 
"That in its physiological value 
caffein is closely related to a food. 
"That Cola is harmless—whole- 
some*and beneficial." 
Everyone of the above statements 
is absolutely false. The truth of each 
one is exactly the opposite of the 
statement made. In other words, caf-
fein is not a true stimulant. Caffein 
has a decided secondary or depres-
sant effect. Caffein is a habit-form-
ing drug. Caffein is in no way re-
lated to foods. It is a poison, not 
a food. Cola is not harmless, whole-
some and beneficial but on the other 
hand, is harmful, unwholesome, and 
poisonous in exact proportion to the 
amount of caffein which it contains. 
The following authoritative state-
ments with reference to caffein from 
scientific men of recognized stand- 
ing amply show the falsity of the 
above statements made by the Cola 
producers and other statements 
which are widely published by them 
throughout the country. 
Dr. H. H. Busby, Dean of the Col-
lege of the City of New York, Colum- 
bia University, and joint author of 
the Standard Dispensatory, says, "It 
is nevertheless true that caffein is a 
genuine poison, both acute and 
chronic. Taken in the form of a 
beverage, it tends to the formation 
of a drug habit, quite as characteris-
tic, though not so effective, as ordi-
nary narcotics. While not cumulative 
in substance, it is so in effects, per-
manent disorders of the cardiac func-
tion and of the cerebral circulation 
resulting from its continued use. 
When the caffein is taken in more 
concentrated and seductive forms, as 
in confections and the like, such as 
the 'stored energy' cubes sold some 
years ago, the danger of habit for-
mation and the cumulative results be-
come correspondingly greater." 
According to Dr. Wm. N. Leszyn-
sky, of New York, coffee is particu-
larly poisonous to children, over-ex-
cites the brain and produces func-
tional disturbances. He says, "I have 
often seen night terrors, insomnia, 
and tremulousness disappear after 
the withdrawal of coffee." He at-
tributes to the use of coffee arrest 
of physical development, and tells of 
a boy six years of age who suffered 
from acute coffee poisoning, the 
symptoms of which were "active de-
lirium, widely dilated pupils, tremor 
in the facial muscles and the extre-
mities, and severe tachycardia, the 
pulse rate being two hundred beats 
a minute." The child also had hal-
lucinations. These symptoms were 
produced by eating half an ounce of 
coffee beans. The boy was ill for a 
week. 
Dr. Leszynsky also states that the 
transitory sensation of well-being 
which is experienced by many sus-
ceptible persons after taking a cup 
of coffee "is soon followed by a feel-
ing of apprehension, general tremu-
lousness, and indigestion." He as-
serts that the habitual use of coffee 
in such persons "invariably leads to 
persistent functional disorders of the 
nervous system, as well as disturb-
ances of digestion." 
During an English expedition to 
Ashantee, one of the officers lost one 
of his finest horses. He was greatly 
distressed about it. They had carried 
their tea and their shelled corn for 
their horses in bags. At one encamp-
ment they had nearly emptied a bag 
THE 
COLA POISON 
CAMPAIGN 
B
Y MEANS of newspaper, 
magazine, and medical journal 
advertisements, together with 
conspicuous sign-boards displayed 
along the public highways, the Cola 
distributors are seeking to educate 
the public into the belief that the 
poison, caffein, is a wholesome, 
harmless substance and may be used 
ad libitum without injury. We copy 
the following from a Cola advertise-
ment which appeared in a medical 
journal: 
"Investigation by the Unprejudiced 
Scientist Has Proven These Facts 
8 �
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
9 
of tea, and filled it with corn. The 
officer's horse happened to get the 
last of the corn in this bag, so that 
he ate the tea with his corn. He was 
seized with a wild delirium, and 
went plunging head-long, and finally 
threw himself over a precipice. That 
was the effect of tea on a horse. 
The Medical Press some time ago 
called attention to the fact that cof-
fee may produce effects similar to 
those induced by alcohol, among 
which are palpitation, a feeble pulse, 
trembling, twitching of the limbs, and 
other indications of profound poison-
ing. This fact is one to which coffee 
drinkers should give attention. The 
use of tea and coffee is only a re-
spectable sort of tippling, the ef-
fects of which may be as injurious 
as those following the use of alco-
holic drugs. 
Dr. Norman Bridge, of Chicago, 
U. S. A., asserts that coffee drinking 
is a frequent cause of disease, and 
reports the history of seven cases in 
which many obscure and distressing 
symptoms were present. All of these 
patients recovered when coffee was 
discarded. 
Edward Smith, the eminent Eng-
lish physiologist, once made an ex-
periment for the purpose of testing 
the effects of coffee. He made a de-
coction of four ounces, and he and 
his assistant drank it. In a short 
time they became dead drunk and 
lay insensible upon the floor of their 
laboratory for three hours. 
Dr. Gilman Thompson, Professor 
of Medicine in Cornell University 
Medical College, of New York City, 
asserts that the use of coffee to pro-
duce wakefulness at night "soon re- 
sults in forming a coffee or tea habit 
in which the individual becomes a 
slave to the beverage" and when de- 
prived of it, "suffers from languor, 
prostration, restlessness and craving." 
Two or three cups three times 
a day produce "muscular tremors, 
nervousness, anxiety, apprehension, 
palpitation of the heart, vertigo, 
heartburn, dyspepsia, constipation, 
insomnia, and emaciation." 
and tremor." Doctor Thompson also 
asserts that acute coffee poisoning 
gives rise to "excitability, with a ten-
dency to delirium and tachycardia" 
(rapid beating of the heart). 
Professor Buchheim, while a stu-
dent with the eminent Professor Leh-
man, more than fifty years ago, was 
made the subject of an experiment 
with caffein, then a newly discovered 
substance. The results afforded the 
most convincing proof that caffein 
is essentially identical with creatinine 
a poison excreted by the kidneys and 
found in the urine. In these experi-
ments it was found that ten grains 
of caffein (five ordinary cups of cof-
fee) "will produce the most violent 
excitement of the vascular and nerv-
ous systems—palpitation of the 
heart, extraordinary frequency, irre-
gularity, and often intermission of 
the pulse, oppression of the chest, 
pains in the head, confusion of the 
senses, singing in the ears, scintil-
lations before the eyes, sleeplessness, 
and delirium." 
The daily use of such a power-
ful drug is in the highest degree de-
trimental to health, slowly but surely 
undermining the constitution in the 
end and producing arteriosclerosis 
or hardening of the arteries, failure 
of the heart, cirrhosis of the liver, 
Bright's disease of 
the kidneys, abdomi-
nal dropsy, general 
dropsy, nervous pros-
tration, failure of 
memory and doubt-
less in some cases in-
sanity and even 
death. 
it it 
Avoid beverages 
containing habit-
forming and harm-
ful drugs. Instead 
use milk and plenty 
of fruit juices. 
V V 
Friedenwald, Professor of Dis-
eases of the Stomach, in the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, Balti-
more, U. S. A., asserts that coffee 
in some persons produces nervous-
ness, excitability, and insomnia." 
Gautier, the great French author-
ity, says that coffee produces nervous 
excitement, insomnia, hallucinations, 
pain in the heart, distressed breath-
ing, weakness of the muscles, dis-
orders of the circulation. He says, 
"One may become a caffeic (coffee 
drunkard) just as one may become 
an alcoholic or morphia maniac." 
Here are some of the poisonous 
effects as described by Dr. John V. 
Shoemaker, M.D., Dean of the Me-
dico-Chirurgical College of Phila-
delphia, and Professor of Materia 
Medica, as described in his great 
work on "Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics." 
"Caffein paralyzes the absorbing 
power of the convoluted tubules (of 
the kidney). Small doses cause irri-
tation of the digestive tract, venous 
congestion and haemorrhoids. 
"From a dose of twelve grains 
(three cups of ordinary coffee) Doc-
tor Pratt experienced restlessness, 
sleeplessness, mental depression, and 
tremor. 
(Continued on p. 17.) 
Doctor Thompson well suggests 
that coffee users may discover the 
ill effects which have been produced 
by suddenly stopping the drug. The 
degree of craving experienced is an 
evidence of the damage which has 
been done and the influence which 
the drug has obtained over the sys-
tem. He says that coffee is a poison 
and should never be given to chil-
dren, in whom "coffee gives rise to 
insomnia, night terrors, nervousness, 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
ELIMINATIONS 
FIFTH COLUMN 
R. Wilson 
N
0 OTHER organ of the body 
suffers more under present-
day conditions than the kid-
neys, not excepting that grossly neg-
lected companion, the large bowel. 
The pity of it is that the damage 
done is insidious and comparatively 
unnoticed; that is, until something 
goes wrong. And then, too late, the 
grievous fact is borne home. For 
this reason we shall speak of the 
kidneys as the "Fifth column," not 
that the kidneys themselves are to 
blame, for only too often, the fault 
lies entirely with ourselves. 
The importance of this often for-
gotten organ can better be assessed 
when it is pointed out once again 
that while one can get along fairly 
well after the removal of one kid-
ney—due, of course, to our Maker's 
wonderful provision against such an 
event—life 'without both of them 
would be impossible. Speaking as 
we now are in terms of elimination, 
10 
the blood would slowly become so 
charged with toxic poisons that a 
sub-normal temperature would be 
followed by drowsiness and finally 
coma or unconsciousness. and death 
would supervene. Since this is true 
in the case of the loss of both kid-
neys, it is obvious that any condi-
tion in which the kidneys are in-
jured or over-worked must be detri-
mental to health and well-being. 
It cannot be stressed too strongly 
or too often that all the organs of 
the body benefit from rest, particu-
larly from that kind of activity that 
accomplishes nothing whatever to-
ward the economy or strengthening 
of the system. In this category one 
might well place the often heard sug-
gestion that the kidneys need "flush-
ing out," this advice being followed 
by the drinking of copious amounts 
of water. Well meaning as this in-
junction may be, and beneficial as 
water is in so many ways, it must 
THE 
be remembered that the delicate or-
ganism of the kidneys does not in 
any sense of the word compare with 
drain pipes! Excessive drinking of 
any liquid can cause the very con-
dition it is supposed to prevent. 
The kidneys lie thickly embedded 
in fat at the back of the abdomen, 
on either side of the spinal column. 
For the amount of work that they 
do they are not large, being roughly 
four and a half inches long, and 
shaped like a kidney bean. The com-
position of the kidney is very com-
plex, as it is made up of many mi-
nute capillaries and tubes. The 
blood supply to the kidney is very 
large for so small an organ, the 
renal arteries taking the blood di-
rectly to the kidney structure. Rest-
ing on the top and shaped like a 
cocked hat is another little organ, 
called the supra-renal gland. This has 
nothing directly to do with elimina-
tion, but its function is so vital con- 
ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
cerning as it does the arteries and 
the heart, that life is impossible with-
out it. 
How do the kidneys work? No 
one seems quite to know. Many the-
ories have been advanced, but there 
is not yet a clear presentation that 
is final. We do, however, know only 
too well what they do, and only too 
consciously become aware that all is 
not well in the inner man when they 
are not functioning properly. 
The lungs, skin, and kidneys all 
function as expellers of liquids, but 
it is the prerogative of the kidneys 
alone to regulate the amount of 
liquid that shall remain in the body. 
While the skin is pre-eminently the 
heat regulator, the kidneys are the 
safety valve controlling fluids. 
The waste from food that the in-
testines handle has never in the true 
sense of the word entered the body 
system at all. The incombustible 
waste from food can be compared 
in a clumsy sense_ to the ash that is 
thrown out of the furnace, but the 
kidneys handle matter that is from 
within the body, that is from the 
blood stream. This matter is largely 
nitrogenous, and results from the 
breaking down of the worn parts of 
the body which have been replaced 
by the nitrogenous foods that come 
from the proteins of our diet. All 
the time the blood is circulating it 
comes under the "searching scru- 
tiny" of the cells of the kidneys. 
How the organ is able to retain albu-
min and expel these nitrogenous 
wastes is a mystery, but the fact is 
that the kidneys are able to do this 
and a lot more. 
For instance, if the blood, or any 
other of the body liquids, contains 
too much of the necessary salts, then 
the kidneys are the channel through 
which these elements are removed 
from the body. Every time bodily 
movement is made, muscles are 
brought into play, and material—
largely glucose—is burned up to 
provide the energy. Tissue likewise 
breaks down from wear, and needs 
to be renewed—largely from a pro-
tein base. These operations which 
are so essential if the living organ-
ism is to remain healthy, provide the 
kidneys with constant work. 
It is the work of the kidneys to 
carry these wastes—which are al-
most all soluble in water—and any 
excess water, from the blood stream, 
and so assist in maintaining that bal-
ance within the body which is es-
sential to complete health. 
Now for the causes that lead to 
kidney breakdown. 
Put into the simplest possible 
language, they are two-fold. First, 
overwork; and secondly the con-
tinual presence of irritants. 
Over-work can be due to over-
eating, a very prevalent sin, (yen in 
these days of austerity! The con-
tinual intake of water without the 
necessary thirst is another contribut-
ing factor. As we have said already, 
all the organs benefit from rest, and 
this applies equally to the kidneys. 
Why not take the necessary liquids 
in the food eaten? Why do we mostly 
prefer foods that create thirst rather 
than salads and other naturally 
"wet" foods that dispel thirst, add-
ing salts and vitamins at the same 
time. Among the wet foods that 
could well be taken more freely are 
all the salads in season, fruits—espe-
cially those that are native to our 
land—and vegetables—these latter 
cooked so that little if any of the 
vital salts are disposed of via the 
sink. Pulses and porridges are not 
wet foods, in fact they actually 
create thirst, needing more water 
during digestion to make them 
usable. 
Contrary to popular belief, meat 
is not essential to the human being; 
in fact we are definitely better with-
out it. The toxic matter and poisons 
left in the animal's body when life 
was taken, add a considerable bur-
den to the kidneys when introduced 
into the system. Tea is another ir-
ritant to the kidneys as also is ex-
cess salt, and sugar and milk in 
strong combination. Drugs are an-
other danger. For instance, carbo-
nate of soda and aspirins, while 
they bring a certain amount of re-
lief, remain to be handled by the 
kidneys, much to their detriment. It 
is this slow, insidious damage in-
flicted over many years without com-
plaint, that constitutes the real dan-
ger. The "fifth column" is a menace 
not only because of the ultimate dis-
comfort that it brings, but more so 
because it catches up on us at a time 
when we can least afford it, and by 
that we mean usually in later life. 
When the results of years of disre7 
gard for health come to take their 
toll, the help that science can give us 
—to use a popular phrase—is often 
"Too little and too late." 
Flatterers are the worst kind of 
enemies.—Tacitus. 
* * * 
Ascend above the restrictions and 
conventions of the world, but not so 
high as to lose sight of them.—
Richard Garnett. 
Excessive drinking, even of pure water, is injurious to the kidneys, 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 �
11 
gado and „9-7andeo �
• ar 
. . . . . . . . . . . ABOUT THE HEART 
PAUL D. WHITE, M.D. 
.. 
T
HE heart is a strong, tough 
muscle able to endure great 
physical strain for many years 
with little or no injury. A rough 
estimate of what the average adult 
heart can do in work accomplished 
in one hour is 3,600 foot-pounds. It 
is not a delicate organ, as are the 
brain and the liver. It has been too 
much feared and coddled simply be-
cause it does happen to be the most 
vital organ. Not only is it the most 
efficient muscle in the body, but it 
is very well protected in the thoracic 
cage. In a healthy person it tires 
much less readily than the skeletal 
muscles, and it is only rarely in-
jured in accident. 
It is practically impossible for a 
person in good training to exhaust 
a healthy heart even by most gruel-
ling effort. Nervous exhaustion and 
muscular fatigue and collapse come 
Farmers—and others who work equally hard—are not so likely to suffer heart 
strain as those whose work gives them little exercise. 
12 
first, and protect the heart, although 
their symptoms are often wrongly 
attributed to heart strain. Hence, the 
athlete's heart is mostly a myth. 
There are undoubtedly, however, 
rare exceptions of persons endowed 
with heart muscle or neuromuscular 
mechanism (by inheritance or per-
haps by a poor start in foetal life or 
earliest infancy) not able to with-
stand the strain of severe athletic 
sport. It may be that marathon rac-
ing, gruelling cycle contests, four-
mile boat races, and hard, fast skiing 
at high altitudes, carried on for 
years, hurt the hearts ,of these per-
sons. Average sports, such as base-
ball, golf, and tennis, and even the 
hard competitive games of football, 
hockey, and basketball, do not hurt 
the heart, with perhaps two possible 
exceptions: 
1. A girl or boy (say, twelve to 
fifteen years old) in the midst of his 
most rapid growth may conceivably 
strain the heart muscle by indulging 
in the three or four most strenuous 
competitive sports mentioned. There 
are two safeguards even here; 
namely, the greater vulnerability of 
the skeletal muscles and the lack of 
sufficient skill and endurance at 
these early ages to make the "first 
teams," which undergo the addi-
tional nervous strain of performing 
before large and excited crowds. 
2. There may be heart injury in 
the case of an athlete acutely ill, most 
commonly from such infection as so-
called grippe, who does not want to 
confess his illness just before some 
important contest because of his mis-
taken idea that he must not let his 
alma mater and his team mates 
down. The heart muscle, already 
somewhat poisoned temporarily by 
the infection, may -dilate under the 
extra strain of the contest. 
More research on the subject of 
heart strain is needed. Certainly the 
heart of the heavy manual labourer 
and of the farmer can remain in ex-
cellent condition through many years 
of the hardest physical work. The 
heart of the businessman or profes-
sional man, on the other hand, often 
becomes defective in middle age, 
doubtless in part at least because of 
the very lack of adequate healthy 
physical exercise. 
Injury produced in accidents 
rarely hurts the heart. Even crush-
ing injuries of the chest, including 
the milder "steering wheel" injuries, 
rarely damage the heart. This is be-
cause the heart, hanging from the 
blood vessels, is freely movable, and 
slips to either side with ease. Un-
doubtedly some cardiac accident-in-
surance neuroses have been fostered 
in recent years by the idea that the 
heart can be easily injured. 
Battle or air-raid injuries, on the 
other hand, are another matter. Fre- 
THE ORIENTAL 'WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
quently casualties are due to actual 
perforation or penetration of the 
heart, but even here many lives have 
been saved by emergency surgical 
work to repair the condition. 
• There is much apprehension about 
the heart rate—fast and slow pulses 
—that needs to be dispelled. The 
usual normal range of pulse rate is 
50 to 90 a minute; and even 40 at 
complete rest and 100 or more when 
excited are not abnormal rates. As 
a matter of fact, a heart can get 
along well for years at a rate as low 
as 30 and as rapid as 120 to 150 
if it is in a reasonably healthy state 
otherwise. At rates of 20 or below 
or more than 200, trouble is likely 
to ensue unless the condition is only 
transient. 
There is also much unnecessary 
fear of low blood pressure. Many 
persons have come to me complain-
ing that their pressure is only 100 
or 105 or 110. If they are otherwise 
healthy, I have always reassured 
them. The lower the blood presgure, 
within reason (that is, down as far 
as 90 to 110 in an adult), the less 
strain on the heart and arteries, and 
the longer the life. This fact has 
been determined especially by life 
insurance studies in the past thirty 
years. Insurers once hesitated to ac-
cept the low-blood-pressure candi- 
dates, but now, other things being 
equal, they jump to take them, as 
being good risks. 
Now let us consider heart disease 
itself and various misconceptions in 
relation to it. There has been stirred 
up a great general alarm about the 
increase of this malady. Unwise 
publicity has caused much cardiac 
neurosis. It is true that the diag-
nosis is made more frequently nowa-
days than it used to be, but that is 
in large part at least to be explained 
by three simple facts: 
-1. There is a tendency in medical 
diagnosis to lump under heart dis-
ease various conditions that used to 
be otherwise labelled. For example, 
what was once called Bright's dis-
ease is now recognized as chiefly 
heart strain and failure, with result-
ing albumin in the urine, caused by 
high blood pressure. 
2. There is a higher accuracy in 
diagnosis. Many cases once errone-
ously called acute indigestion are 
now recognized as being coronary 
thrombosis. 
3. More persons are surviving the 
hazards of early life—particularly 
infantile dysentery, diphtheria, tuber-
culosis, and typhoid fever—to reach 
middle life or beyond, in which 
heart disease is naturally more 
prevalent. Perhaps our faulty modern 
way of life, with almost complete 
neglect of the ordinary simple rules 
of health, may add its toll of heart 
victims. More study of this problem 
also is badly needed. 
It is important to realize that 
heart disease is not one disease, such 
as typhoid fever, any more than dis-
ease of the brain is one disease. If 
we break the expression down into 
simple terms, it becomes much less 
mysterious and terrifying. There are 
heart defects present at birth; acute 
and chronic rheumatic hearts; bac-
terial endocarditis (formerly the 
most fatal of all, but now, fortu-
nately, curable in 80 per cent of the 
cases) ; hearts badly supplied with 
blood or with muscle actually dam-
aged or destroyed because of harden-
ing of their arteries; hearts dam-
aged by syphilis (fortunately be-
coming rarer) ; hearts exhausted by 
many years of thyroid poisoning 
(also a thing of the past in advanced 
posts of civilization) ; and many, 
many lesser (that is, rarer or rela-
tively unimportant) causes (such as 
anaemia) of abnormal conditions of 
the heart. 
A few details about the most im-
portant kinds of heart disease are 
appropriately added here. There are 
the defects in the heart and large 
(Continued on p. 17.) 
Moderate exercise will not injure the heart. In fact it is very essential for the inside worker. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 �
13 
 
H. W. 
 
habit, and wilful disregard of na-
ture's laws. In the latter category are 
the so-called "food drunks." Over-
eating does in fact cause a mild in-
toxication. 
The mental attitude may mean the 
difference between success and fail-
ure. Obesity is no longer an evidence 
of health and prosperity as it may 
have been during the depression. 
Neither does it add to one's beauty 
as it is said to have done in the 
days of ancient Greece. Hunger is a 
wholesome state. The masters advise 
us to interrupt eating far short of 
satisfaction instead of continuing be-
yond by the taking of desserts. In 
fact it is said that desserts are made 
tasty because if they were not so en-
ticing no more would be eaten at 
that stage of a meal. One authority 
goes so far as to say that they have 
no place in the normal dietary, that 
they should be considered a rare in-
dulgence reserved for special occa-
sions or holidays. While dieting, hun-
ger between meals can usually be as-
suaged by one or two glasses of plain 
or soda water. 
Dr. Frank A. Evans, collaborator 
of Duncan, has advised that the 
glutton who eats for eating's sake to 
the point of semi-intoxication should 
be warned that "since gustatory de-
lights form a great part of his en-
joyment of life, to give them up 
might make life too uninteresting to 
endure." Newburgh and Johnson 
have said of the extremely obese that 
they have a "combination of a weak 
will and a pleasure-seeking outlook 
on life." Such are advised to pon• 
Obesity Constitutes 
INTEMPER 
TABLE 
AST thou marked na- 
ture's diligence? The 
body of everything that 
takes nourishment dies, and is con-
stantly reborn." These words of 
Leonardo da Vinci are used by Dr. 
Garfield Duncan to introduce his 
book Diseases of Metabolism. It is 
a good reminder to persist in one's 
efforts to achieve perfection, per-
haps even the objective of an ideal 
weight. It is interesting to note that 
carbohydrates and fats, whether 
burned within or without the body, 
yield the same calories per gram; 
namely, four calories per gram, and 
nine calories per gram respectively. 
Protein yields four calories per 
, gram within the body, which is less 
than without the body, because it is 
not fully assimilated owing to nitro-
gen excretion. 
In contrast to physical effort, men-
tal effort causes negligible increases 
above the basal rate. The basal me-
tabolic rate of vegetarians and non-
vegetarians shows very little differ-
ence as measured by oxygen con-
sumption during stated periods. The 
normal range is said to be plus or 
minus fifteen. The ideal weight is 
about as follows, according to 
height: one hundred pounds for the 
first five feet, five pounds for each 
additional inch, ten pounds addi-
tional if you are heavy-boned, and 
an extra ten pounds for men. This 
corresponds to the weight you were 
when about twenty-five years of 
age. The advantage of keeping the 
weight normal is that you are less 
susceptible to the degenerative dis-
eases such as premature hardening 
of the arteries and its complications, 
also diabetes. As the saying goes, 
"the lifeline is inversely propor-
tional to the waist line." Too rigid 
dieting is like going on a high-fat 
diet, since body-fat stores are mobi-
lized. This in itself has resulted in 
undue strain on the circulatory sys-
tems of some persons, and has cast 
some approbrium on dieting. A 
weight loss of two to four'pounds a 
month is considered a safe pro-
gramme for older individuals. The 
younger person, is rarely satisfied 
with anything less than two to four 
pounds a week. 
On an under-nutrition programme 
the patient may actually gain weight 
owing to water retention. The pa-
tient will eventually lose at a predic-
table rate if the diet is adhered to 
and standard measures are used. 
Persons with heart disease particu-
larly stand to gain by weight reduc-
tion where they are obese. Thyroi-
dectomy has been considered in ex-
treme cases to conserve body ener-
gies by reducing metabolic rate—a 
similar drop in basal metabolic rate 
of minus twenty or minus thirty has 
been accomplished by weight re-
duction. 
If over-eating is a moral evil be-
cause of its damaging effects 
upon the body temple, its origin 
can be likened to that of other 
moral evils; namely, ignorance, 
If you desire long life, do not 
indulge your appetite to excess. 
14 �
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
It is an established fact that every inch added to the 
waistline shortens the lifeline. 
N C E �
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)r, M.D. 
der well the great sacrifice they must 
make before embarking on a diet. 
When so advised some return soon, 
or sometimes even a year later; some 
withdraw, never to return. "When 
thou sittest to eat with a ruler, con-
sider diligently what is before thee: 
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou 
be a man given to appetite. Be not 
desirous of his dainties: for they are 
deceitful meat." Gland trouble as a 
cause of obesity is really somewhat 
of a myth, as fat has only one por-
tal of entry; namely, the throat. 
Doctor Evans has summarized the 
signs, symptoms and results of 
weight reduction about as follows: 
If blood pressure is elevated, a cer-
tain reduction may be expected. 
Symptoms of cardiovascular strain, 
such as breathlessness on mild exer-
tion, will be eliminated. Albuminuria, 
if present, will be decreased; sugar 
in the urine may be eliminated. In-
digestion, dizziness, headache, sleep-
lessness and pains in the joints may 
be relieved. With regard to hernia 
it may be said that many cases show 
improvement of symptoms and de-
creased size of the hernial sac. With-
out exception varicose veins in the 
legs of the obese improve with re-
duction in weight. In other words, 
subcutaneous fat provides no support 
for varicose veins. With regard to 
disturbances of menstruation, ac-
curate dieting will alleviate the 
symptoms in most patients, and will 
relieve them completely in some. The 
correction of menstrual disorders in 
the obese with dieting suggests that 
some endocrine troubles may be due 
to the ingestion of faulty metabolic 
mixtures at a physiologically im-
pressionable period of the patient's 
life such as puberty, and not that 
some metabolic dyscrasia (obesity) 
is secondary to disturbed endocrine 
function. The mental attitude is im-
proved. There is more self-confi-
dence. Reducing, or rather restrict-
ing the diet, is a good personality 
exercise. 
The greatest menace to those who 
are overweight is their friends! 
"Many persons instinctively respond 
to an obvious loss of weight in an-
other as an evidence of serious dis-
ease, and with impulsive solicitude 
they tell the obese friend after cure 
that he 'looks terrible' and enquire 
anxiously about the cause." 
Permanence of results? It is ad- 
mitted that relapses are fairly fre-
quent. A food addiction in some 
persons is too strong to resist. It is re- 
ported of a patient who had re- 
duced from �
389 �
pounds to 169 
pounds, a �
net �
reduction of 220 
pounds, that she reported to a hos-
pital some years later weighing 420 
pounds. She now had a serious and 
painful illness requiring administra-
tion of morphine. She was heard to 
say, "Doctor, can't you put that hy-
podermic off until after lunch?" 
Sometimes Doctor Evans impels a 
hesitant patient toward co-operation 
by pointing out to the person who 
weighs, for example, 190 pounds and 
should weigh 130 pounds, that she 
is made up of 130 pounds of her 
charming self and 60 pounds of 
dead inert fat. 
of the Greatest Perils to Longevity 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
15 
FRED O. STEAD 
Establishing Normal Vision 
ANY people in their eager- 
ness to lead children into 
the positive path of health 
and happiness, may sometimes over-
look the fact that vision is a part of 
the general "map" just as much as 
other bodily and mental functions. 
Perhaps sight is the most precious 
gift of all, since through the sense 
of sight we gain the greater propor-
tion of our knowledge and experi-
ence. Normal vision is the result of 
a perfect co-ordination of physiologi-
cal and psychological functions. This 
co-ordination is achieved by practice 
from birth. Objects have no mean-
ing to a baby until they become as-
sociated with bodily desires and ex-
periences: hunger, sleep, motherly 
affection, and so on. They come to 
be remembered and recognized 
gradually during the first year . or 
so, knowledge and interest stimulat-
ing the muscular action of the eyes. 
The human eye is relatively large 
at birth, and continues to grow, 
reaching its final size in early adult-
hood, varying with the individual. 
As we should expect, the eyes of a 
baby are very elastic and adaptable. 
The delicate muscles which control 
the movement of the eyeballs—six 
muscles to each eye—are growing in 
size and strength at this age, as also 
16 
the minute structure of the eyes 
themselves. The greatest development 
takes place between the years of six 
to sixteen with most people, before 
finally settling down. 
During all this period therefore, 
while the eyes are being used they 
are growing and making numberless 
re-adjustments. If we imagine a 
piece of optical apparatus like a 
high-precision miniature camera of 
complex design being used to take 
photographs and at the same time to 
be slowly growing in our hands, it 
will be at once apparent that if we 
are to produce accurately focused 
negatives, while the apparatus is 
changing size, the relative changes 
which must take place to compen-
sate each other would be beyond all 
imagination— Yet, in effect, That is 
roughly what is happening to our 
eyes, all through the period from 
birth to adolescence. But in addition 
we have two sets of apparatus work-
ing in conjunction to give us 
stereoscopic sight—sense of depth 
—also. The mind has to perceive and 
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
THE 
interpret what is focused on the re-
tinas. 
It will be instantly realized that 
this period of life—birth to adoles-
cence—makes terrific dem'ands on 
sight. Since the invention 44 print-
ing and artificial light, we have 
witnessed the rapid growth of educa-
tional systems which result in chil-
dren from the age of five or even 
sooner, learning to read and write 
and work out problems of arith-
metic. For many hours each day the 
eyes of children in civilized coun-
tries are kept focused on letters, 
numerals, and diagrams at distances 
as near as a few inches, sometimes. 
In addition, many children start 
learning music out of school hours; 
another vocation requiring rather 
near sight. 
Not many schools can afford to 
have desks of the right height for 
all their children. Those who work 
for health and, happiness among 
children would do well to consider 
just how much international, finan-
cial, and economic problems frus-
trate their efforts. The power of ac-
commodation—focusing at different 
distances—i§ therefore sometimes 
not exercised sufficiently, particu-
larly in weather when outdoor games 
are impracticable. The eyes there- 
ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
fore tend to permanently adjust 
themselves for seeing close, rather 
than distant things, the latter being 
out of focus. (Short sight.) 
The methods for the improvement 
of defective sight may be known to 
many readers, but for those who 
have not studied them at all, it might 
be of value to include a simple ex-
planation of the theories underlying 
these methods. 
The chief point to realize, is that 
even if glasses have been worn for 
some time, sight is improved by re-
laxation of the eye muscles and also 
the removal of any anxiety, followed 
by toning up exercises for the eye 
muscles, and practising remembering 
—and imagining—shapes, colours, 
and minute detail. 
Many children today wear glasses 
for only minute defects. As will be 
realized the sight of children will 
vary considerably from time to time, 
even from minute to minute. If then, 
a slight defect is recorded in the 
optician's consulting room, in which 
the patient only stays for about half 
an hour, it is just possible that the 
result might be somewhat mislead. 
ing, and that under more favourable 
conditions, vision might be almost 
normal. 
Once the glasses are worn regu-
larly, and school work, with its in-
tense use of the eyes for close work 
continued, it is often found that the 
wearing of glasses is accompanied by 
a gradual increase in the defect. 
Stronger and stronger lenses have to 
be prescribed from time to time, un-
til by the age of adolescence, un-
aided sight is so bad that very little 
can be done without glasses. 
Many children if helped to estab-
lish good vision early enough would 
not have to wear glasses at all. Pre- 
vention is easier than cure, particu-
larly in matters of vision. School- 
days could be got through and nor-
mal, healthy vision established for 
life, even under the very exacting 
condition of present-day existence. 
Some defects are serious, especi-
ally those associated with a blue col- 
our of skin and mucous membranes; 
others, the majority, in those who 
survive the first few days or weeks 
of life, are compatible with active 
and long lives, though more than 
average care should be taken to 
avoid undue strain and infection 
even by the least seriously affected. 
Much recent advance as been made 
in our knowledge and treatment of 
congenital heart disease. We know 
now that virus infections, in particu-
lar German measles, in the first, sec-
ond, or third month of pregnancy 
may result in deformities of the 
heart as well as other parts of the 
body. Also, surgical treatment of de-
fects present at birth has advanced 
greatly, so that the condition causing 
a "blue" baby is curable in children 
and young adults by new surgical 
techniques, at least in part. Further 
experimental approaches are being 
undertaken along these lines. 
The second important type of 
heart disease, in some parts of the 
world the most common of all, mak-
ing up about a third of all cases, is 
rheumatic heart disease. The precise 
cause of it is still unknown, but 
there are several important things 
about it that are now well under-
stood. It starts as an acute inflam-
matory process involving the heart 
muscle especially, and usually also 
the heart lining and valves, and 
often the outer sac in which the 
heart lies. It is usually set off by a 
streptococcus infection (generally of 
the upper respiratory tract). 
It is rare in the real tropics. Fre-
quently seen in certain families be-
cause of some inherited suscepti-
bility, it crops out in crowded living 
areas. It may be immediately serious 
and indeed even fatal, but usually 
it allows recovery, with some per-
manent heart damage, variable in de-
gree. The prospects for recovery de-
pend on the severity and duration 
(often for many months) of the 
acute illness, the tendency to recur- 
rence, and the amount of perma-
nent valvular deformity and muscle 
damage. 
Some persons have lived long and 
fully active lives despite rheumatic 
heart disease; many have not. Im- 
portant new advances have taken 
place in our knowledge and treat- 
ment of rheumatic fever and rheu- 
matic heart disease. The vigorous 
use of penicillin at the onset of acute 
streptococcus infections, of the 
throat in particular, may cut them 
1951 
short and protect the individual 
against their sequel, rheumatic fever. 
The new treatment with ACTH, a 
hormone, is very promising in cut-
ting short the rheumatic fever pro-
cess itself. However, much more 
study is needed before we can draw 
final conclusions. • 
THE COLA POISON 
CAMPAIGN 
(Continued from p. 9.) 
"Zeneta, an eminent German 
physician, called attention to the 
dangers of caffein, asserting that 
three grains two or three times a 
day (two ordinary cups) causes 
rise of blood-pressure (leading to 
apoplexy), constriction of the chest, 
dyspncea, restlessness. Zeneta has 
seen death result from five grains 
two or three times a day. The cause 
of death was tetanic contraction of 
the heart. 
"Caffeine accumulates in the body 
like digitalis and some other power-
ful drugs. Some time is required to 
eliminate the poison after its use is 
stopped." 
Doctor Shoemaker and other emi-
nent authorities call attention to the 
danger of using coffee in diseases of 
the kidneys and in arteriosclerosis. 
These maladies are becoming very 
common. They are one of the results 
of the long continued use of coffee, 
and when found present indicate that 
coffee must be discarded entirely and 
forever. The use of coffee by such 
persons is simply adding fuel to a 
consuming flame. 
Caffein drunkards are being made 
by the thousands over the country 
by the delusive advertisements of the 
Cola beverages, which lead people to 
believe that Caffein in the form of 
Cola is a harmless drink, and cause 
them to acquire the habit of taking 
large quantities of caffein daily and 
soon find themselves suffering from 
the evil effects described in the pre-
ceding paragraphs. 
It is the duty of the members of 
the medical profession who are op-
posed to poison habits to sound a 
note of alarm and to warn the pub-
lic through the daily press and every 
other possible agency; of the delusive 
claims and false statements with 
reference to caffein and caffein-con-
taining beverages which are being 
made by various companies. 
THE DEADLY WORK OF COLA AND 
CIGARETTES 
A correspondent, Mr. J. R. Kelly, 
17 
FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT 
THE HEART 
(Continued from p. 13.) 
blood vessels found at birth, which 
are less frequent in occurrence. They 
are the most complicated kind of 
heart trouble because of the many 
different defects and their combina-
tions. Only in recent years have they 
been adequately studied. But there 
is still much to learn. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 
writes us as follows: "I know some 
young people who are slaves to 
cigarettes and Cola and say they can-
not quit: These young men and girls 
are fifteen to twenty-one years of 
age and the above-mentioned dope 
nuisances are sapping and wrecking 
their young lives. I think cigarettes 
are killing more people today than 
whisky." 
There can be no doubt that thou-
sands of young men and women are 
every year sacrificed to the Moloch 
of greed which creates and maintains 
the traffic in cigarettes and Cola. The 
sale and use of these poisons should 
be prohibited by law.—Good Health 
'Magazine. 
BOOK REVIEW 
TIPS TO STUDENTS, by P. K. 
Peterson.—Bennett, Coleman and 
Company, Limited, The Times of 
India Offices, Bombay and Calcutta. 
Revised and enlarged edition, 
29 Chapters, 150 pages, -Price, 
Rs. 2.4-0. �
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The majority of students in 
sehools and colleges today endeavour 
to absorb information and data for 
the sole purpose of passing exami-
nations and obtaining degrees with 
little or no forethought of their 
future usefulness to their respective 
communities. In this little book the 
author presents information that- is 
at once simple, practical and worth-
while and also such as will help the 
student not only to pass his exami-
nations but enable him to acquire 
knowledge and understanding that 
will be lasting and useful. 
Most failures in the field of learn-
ing are due to wrong methods of 
study, and so the student is given 
advice and counsel on how to study 
and take notes, how to read rapidly 
and with efficiency, what measures to 
adopt to obtain maximum concen-
tration of attention in his work, how 
to improve his memory and im-
agination and how to reason out all 
his studies and problems as against 
mere parrot-like learning by rote 
which is of such little practical value. 
Many striking quotations from emi-
nent authorities on the subject are 
presented to clinch the various 
points and hints that are suggested 
throughout this work which is of 
value not only to the student world 
but also to those who have graduated 
from college and have an innate de-
sire to improve their mental faculties, 
18 
A Pleasing Voice 
One writer has said: "A well 
modulated voice is perhaps the most 
potent factor in one's entire personal 
quality group—the voice is to the 
total personality what colour is to 
the flower." One lady often repeated 
to her growing young daughter: 
"Ladies should speak softly." The 
social stature, quality, and upbring-
ing of a lady is revealed wherever 
she happens to be by the pitch, tone, 
and modulation of her voice. Ladies, 
show your colours. 
How to Clean Glassware 
Place a cloth or rubber mat in the 
bottom of the dishpan. Fill it with 
soft, warm soap suds (not too much 
soap). Wash well and especially rub 
drinking tumblers around the top 
rim. If stemmed glasses, be care-
ful not to hold them by the stem 
when washing or wiping. They 
should be handled carefully lest they 
break. Rinse in warm, clear water 
and place upside down on a towel. 
Cut or etched glassware should be 
brushed with a soft brush and soap-
water before being rinsed. If glasses 
are placed inside each other by ac-
cident, do not force them apart. Fill 
the inside glass with cold water and 
place the outside one in very warm 
water. They will easily be separated. 
Never put glasses inside others. 
Drinking glasses should shine and be 
sparkling. 
She Stopped Smoking 
"Every fifteen minutes I reached 
for a cigarette," my friend told me. 
She smoked two packets a day, then 
she began to think of the useless-
ness of burning money and doing 
harm to her throat and lungs. So 
she said, "Whenever I felt like taking 
a cigarette I said to myself 'How 
much would I suffer if I waited an-
other fifteen minutes?' I looked at 
my watch and went about my work 
until I remembered again and 
wanted a smoke, I repeated the M. 
THE 
teen minute idea and that is two 
years ago. I have not smoked since." 
Looking Well-Groomed 
Geeta, my next-door neighbour, 
always looks neat and trim and 
though she is middle-aged she is not 
"fat." Her saris look beautiful on 
her. Surprise visitors always find her 
ready to receive company. The 
reason: she considers her own family 
as good as any visitors and she tries 
her best to look well to them for her 
own satisfaction. Therefore she al-
ways looks well-groomed. 
Drinking-Cups for the Little Tots 
Inexpensive glass drinking cups 
when decorated with a pretty picture 
pasted on the bottom of the cup so 
that the child can see it when he has 
drunk his milk or orange juice is a 
great help when children have to 
drink much liquid. The picture may 
be cut out of a magazine and pasted 
on the bottom of the cup and it may 
be exchanged often and thus be a 
variety and a surprise. 
Look Young at Fifty 
Sometimes we hear a remark like 
this: "You don't look a day older 
than when I saw you ten years ago." 
That is a gracious speech and it 
makes the one to whom it is ad-
dressed feel wonderfully good. Now, 
if you want to look young, think 
young thoughts, beautiful thoughts, 
loving thoughts. Look to your figure 
and if it is not slim make it so 
gradually by exercise and diet. Don't 
wear drab colours in dresses, wear 
light sunshiny things. As you go 
build happy memories. Do some-
thing "nice" every day, some good 
for someone. Don't live in the past. 
Overlook the shortcomings of others, 
laugh at your own mistakes, and 
take life as it comes, fortune or mis-
fortune, with a smile and a prayer. 
Say with the sage of old, "Even this 
shall pass away." 
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Plenty of raw salads for this month 
should be garnishing our meals. They 
will be eaten with relish even if they 
are mostly the same greens but served 
in different ways. Endive, watercress, 
lettuce, celery, and other greens should 
be washed and cleaned very well and 
washed and left to stand in chlorinated 
water before eating, so that any unseen 
parasites or eggs of parasites may be 
destroyed. 
Serve these greens on a salad plate 
or in a bowl. Mix them or serve them 
in separate bowls. Chop them or serve 
them whole. Marinate them in oil or 
salad dressing, or let everyone help 
themselves to dressing served in a 
separate bowl. 
Avocado, radishes, small onions, 
grated beetroots, and grated carrots are 
very good additions to raw salads and 
the colour combinations can be made 
most pleasing to the eye, thus enhanc-
ing a good appetite. 
Grapefruit, pineapple, oranges, bana- 
nas, grapes, apples, peaches, pears, 
plums, and dates, may also be com- 
bined in different, ways with melon and 
the lowly papaya. For health eat plenty 
of raw salads. 
The Best Fruit Salad 
Half a medium-sized papaya with 
seeds and skin removed; 2 apples, 
washed with cores removed and then 
sliced; juice of 2 oranges; 1/2 cup dates, 
washed, stoned and cut in halves; 1 
teaspoonful sugar or honey. 
Cut the papaya in medium squares. 
Also the apples. Sprinkle the sugar over 
this fruit after it is lightly mixed. 
Pour the orange juice over and place in 
individual serving dishes or in a bowl. 
Place the halved dates on top for 
decoration. Serves three or four. 
Pineapple Candlesticks 
One small, ripe pineapple; 1/2 dozen 
good plantains; 1/2 dozen small cookies; 
mayonnaise. 
Peel the pineapple and cut out all 
the "eyes." Cut in slices—as many as 
you want for individual salads. Cut out 
carefully the centre core from each 
slice leaving the slice whole. Insert in 
this hole a peeled plantain so that it 
will stand upright. Top the plantain 
with a bit of mayonnaise. Place a round 
cookie at, the side, upright, so that it 
resembles a handle on a candlestick. 
Cabbage Salad 
Three cups finely shredded or grated 
cabbage; 1 capsicum, minced; 1 cucum-
ber, diced or grated; 1/2 cup celery, 
chopped fine; 1 medium-sized onion, 
minced; Y2 cup lime juice; 1 teaspoon-
ful salt; 1/2 cup cream. 
Mix all ingredients together in a 
bowl except the cream. Add the cream 
just before serving. Serves six. 
Moulded Carrot Salad 
One cup carrots, raw and grated; 1 
cup finely chopped celery; 2 cups diced 
pineapple•' 1
/2 sweet capsicum, chopped 
fine; 2 tablespoonfuls lime juice; 1 
tablespoonful sugar; 1 teaspoonful 
salt; 1 package lemon jello. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 
Dissolve the lemon jello in 11/2 cups 
boiling water. Add the sugar, salt and 
lime juice. Add the vegetables and pine-
apple when quite cool. Pour into a 
mould or into indiVidual moulds, seeing 
that it is mixed well before doing so. 
Let stand in cool place or in refrigerator 
two or three hours. Unmould on crisp 
lettuce leaves and serve with mayon-
naise. 
Rainbow Salad 
One cup grated beetroot; 1 cup grated 
carrots; 1 cup finely chopped celery. 
Take each of these and marinate for 
fifteen minutes in French dressing. 
Place on crisp lettuce leaves, first a 
centre of celery and then a ring of 
beetroot and lastly a ring of carrots. 
Serves four or five. 
French Dressing 
Two tablespoonfuls salad oil; 4 table-
spoonfuls lime juice; 1 teaspoonful 
sugar; 1/2 teaspoonful salt; I/2- teaspoon-
ful paprika. 
Stir well and it is ready for use. 
Mayonnaise 
One egg; 1 teaspoonful sugar; 1/2 tea-
spoonful salt; 1/2 teaspoonful paprika; 
1/2 teaspoonful lemon or lime juice; N. 
cup salad oil; 3 tablespoonfuls lime 
juice. 
Break the egg into a bowl and add 
the sugar, salt, and paprika. Mix well 
and add the 1/2 teaspoonful of lemon 
juice. Beat into this five teaspoonfuls 
of the salad oil, one at, a time, beating 
after each addition until a stiff cream 
is formed. A tablespoonful of lime 
juice may now be added slowly, beat-
ing all the time. Proceed adding oil 
-and lime juice alternately, beating after 
each addition until all is used. The 
mayonnaise should be stiff like butter 
when done. 
Tomato Surprise Salad 
Take one tomato for each person. 
Remove skin by immersing for ten sec-
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tion from the top of each and scoop 
out, some of the centre. Fill the tomatoes 
with a mixture of chopped celery, ap-
ples, and walnuts mixed with mayon-
naise. Place each tomato on a lettuce 
leaf. Top with mayonnaise and serve. 
Lemon Pie Filling 
One and a half cups water; y4 cup 
sugar; 1/4 teaspoonful salt; grated rind 
of one lime; 3 eggs, separated; 6 table- 
1951 
spoonfuls lime juice; 6 level tablespoon-
fuls cornflour; 6 level tablespoonfuls 
sifted icing sugar. 
Bring the water and the lemon rind 
to a boil and pour over the sugar and 
cornstarch which have been mixed pre-
viously. Boil very well until thick, stir-
ring all the time. Beat the egg yolks 
and the lemon juice together until light 
and frothy and add gradually to the 
starch mixture, taking care that the 
egg does not coagulate. Cook for a few 
seconds to cook the egg and then mix 
in two tablespoonfuls batter. 
Cool somewhat before pouring into a 
pie dish lined with a crumb crust or 
with a baked crust. Cover with meringue 
made by beating the egg whites with 
a rotary egg beater and adding the 
icing sugar a little at a time until the 
mixture is stiff and capable of holding 
shape. Place this in the oven until the 
meringue is lightly browned and serve 
when cold. 
Crumb Pie Crust 
One cup crushed sweet biscuits or 
vanilla wafers; 1/4. cup soft butter; 1 
tablespoonful milk, or more if needed. 
Blend all ingredients together with 
the fingers and pat mixture into eight-
inch pie-dish. Pour lemon filling into it 
at once and bake fifteen minutes. 
Butter Cookies 
One cup butter or vegetable fat, or 
half and half; N cup sugar; 1 egg; 21/2 
cups sifted self-raising flour; 1/4 tea-
spoonful salt; 1 teaspoonful almond 
essence. 
Cream butter and sugar. Add unbeaten 
egg and beat well. Add essence, sift 
the flour and salt into the bowl and 
mix well. The dough may be pressed 
through a spritz or rolled out and cut, 
into shapes. Bake in hot oven for ten 
minutes until a golden brown. Makes 
three dozen small cookies. 
Ginger Cookies 
One cup sugar; 1/2 cup butter; 2 eggs; 
1 cup ghur syrup; 1 teaspoonful ground 
ginger; 1 teaspoonful ground cloves; 3 
tablespoonfuls cream; grated rind of 1 
orange; 41/2 cups self-raising flour or 
more if needed. 
Cream butter and sugar. Add the 
warm, strained ghur syrup. Add the eggs 
and beat well. Add the flour, the cloves, 
ginger and grated orange peel. Mix well 
and let stand in a cool place overnight. 
Roll the dough thin and cut with cookie 
cutters and place on sheets of tin to 
bake in moderate oven. This makes ten 
dozen small cookies. 
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9 
DISCHARGING EAR: Ques.—"A 
friend of mine has been suffering from 
ear trouble for five years. He is slightly 
deaf in one ear and pus oozes from that 
ear all the time. An ear specialist, ad-
vised him to have an operation upon 
the upper part of the cheek near the 
ear but he is afraid of this operation. 
Is there anything that can be done for 
him apart from surgery?" 
Ans.—The medical treatment for a 
discharging ear is adequate doses of 
penicillin over a sufficient period. If 
there is mastoid involvement then sur-
gery is the probable answer. 
PHLEGM IN THROAT; HERNIA: 
Ques.—"(1) I have phlegm in the region 
of my throat which even coughing does 
not remove. I tried a nasal douche with 
salt water but this does not cure it. I 
am well in every other way and fol-
low a careful, restricted diet. What is 
the cure for this? (2) My three-and-a-
half year old child has hernia and the 
part swells when she cries. Is there any 
cure for her other than by undergoing 
an operation ?" 
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quently this is due to an allergy. Smok-
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ter you state that you are opposed to 
using medicinal measures, the best way 
of treating this would then be to use 
alternating hot and cold applications to 
the face and throat two or three times 
daily for about ten minutes each time. 
Instead of a drastically restricted diet 
I suggest that you make certain of a 
well-balanced diet. (2) The only ra-
tional way of dealing with hernia in a 
child is by surgical measures. 
REMOVAL OF TATTOO MARKS: 
Ques.—"Please tell me of any harmless 
remedy 
marks." 
Ans.—The only successful means of 
removing tattoo figures is by means of 
skin surgery. 
FLATULENCE; CRAMPS IN THE 
LEGS: Ques.—"(1) You have advised 
the use of `Entozyme' as a remedy for 
flatulence. I have failed to obtain this 
commodity so far. If it is not available 
in India can you suggest a substitute? 
(2) I suffer also from some cramp in 
the legs. Not pain, but the leg muscles 
seem to twitch causing sleeplessness and 
uneasiness. Please let me have a remedy 
for this." 
Ans.—(1) "Entozyme" is a two-in-one 
tablet. The first coating dissolves in the 
stomach releasing enzymes that act in 
an acid media. The second coating dis-
solves in the intestines releasing en-
zymes that act in an alkaline environ-
ment. This makes them suited to both 
stomach and intestinal digestion. They 
are made by A. H. Robins, Co., Rich-
mond, Virginia, U. S. A. This informa-
tion may help your chemist to secure 
them through importers. Failing this 
you could take the ingredients sepa-
rately. Pancreatin 300 mg. Pepsin 
(Continued on p. 23.) 
which will remove tattoo 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 �
21 
E
VERY box, every dresser 
drawer, every chest, trunk, 
can, or basket—in fact, every-
thing that had a cover or a lid must 
be opened by Patty, for to satisfy 
her curiosity, she must see what was 
inside., 
Patty knew what was in each one 
of mother's sewing machine draw-
ers, her kitchen cabinet drawers, her 
dresser drawers. She knew what 
Daddy kept in each one of the desk 
drawers—all except one, which he 
always kept locked. Daddy told Patty 
there were private papers in thaf 
drawer. But it bothered Patty to 
know that there was one drawer that 
she could not look into. When Patty 
looked wishfully at that one forbid-
den drawer, Daddy would say, "Re-
member, Patty, it is said that 'curi-
osity once killed a cat.' " 
The neighbours did not like 
Patty. They said she was snoopy. 
For whenever Patty played with the 
neighbours' children, she always 
managed to find a chance to look 
into dresser drawers, medicine cabi-
nets, and clothes closets. 
There was a little black chest away 
up on the top of the bookcase in one 
neighbour's home. Patty did not 
know what was in that chest, for it 
was too high for her to reach even 
by climbing on to a chair. One day 
she had a chance to look. The 
mother was canning and needed 
some sugar right away. Would Patty 
rock the baby while she ran to the 
shop? Patty rocked the baby until 
the mother was out of sight, then 
she laid the baby on the bed. Push-
ing a chair before the bookcase, 
Patty took. two big books from the 
lower shelf, to stand on. At least she 
thought they were books, but when 
she stood on them, something 
cracked inside. 
The little black chest was locked, 
and Patty did not know where the 
neighbour kept the key. So she 
climbed down, put the books back 
on the lower shelf, and pushed the 
chair back in the corner. The baby 
was crying, so Patty took him again 
and rocked him. 
A few days later the neighbour 
was asking if anyone could tell how 
those two albums of gramophone 
records were broken. Of course 
Patty knew, but she did not con-
fess her wrong. 
MRS. JOHN F. UNDERHILL 
One day Patty went with Daddy 
to visit Aunt Ellen and Cousin Mar-
jorie, who lived in a district where 
there had been a recent flood. Patty 
did not look into the drawers at 
Aunt Ellen's house; she did not dare 
because Daddy and Aunt Ellen were 
sitting where they could see her. So 
she sat on the settee beside Mar-
jorie and pretended to be interested 
in the paper dolls and picture books. 
Then Daddy said to Aunt Ellen, 
"I would like to see that flood area. 
The girls seem interested in the 
paper dolls; they won't mind staying 
alone for a while, will you girls?" 
"Not at all," said Patty. 
"I have seen it," said Marjorie. 
As soon as Daddy and Aunt Ellen 
were out of sight, Patty suggested, 
"Let's play hide and seek." 
"Okay," said Marjorie, putting 
her paper dolls away. "You may 
hide first, because you are com-
pany." 
"You hide your face in the pil-
low until I call 'Ready,' then you 
come and find me," said Patty. 
Down on the pillow went Mar-
jorie's head. 
Patty tiptoed out to the kitchen. 
First she looked in the dish-towel 
drawer, then the silverware drawer, 
then she opened the oven door. Not 
seeing anything of special interest 
she looked in the pantry. 
"Not ready yet," she called, hop-
ing that Marjorie was still face 
down on the pillow. 
There was a little white door by 
the cookstove that had a hook on it. 
Patty must see what was behind that 
little white door. She lifted the hook 
and pushed, but the door did not 
open. She pushed still harder, but 
the door was stuck fast. Patty was 
more determined than ever to see 
what was behind that little white 
door. She pushed with her knee—
it seemed to give a little. Then she 
threw her whole weight against it. 
It opened with a jerk, taking Patty 
with it. Down she fell, splash, into 
some water! Coughing and choking, 
she,managed to stand up, and found 
herself in the basement, in water up 
to her waist. It was cold water, too! 
Her hair, dress, and shoes were full 
of water. 
Marjorie came out as soon as she 
heard the noise. 
"Oh, Patty," she said, "I am so 
sorry. I forgot to tell you we could 
not hide in the basement because of 
the water down there. The door has 
been closed since the flood; we are 
PATTY AND THE LITTLE WHITE DOOR 
22 �
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waiting our turn to have the city 
pump. I am sorry I forgot to tell 
you Patty." 
Patty did not tell Marjorie that 
she was not particularly looking for 
a place to hide when she opened that 
little white door. Patty wourd have 
been ashamed to tell her that .it was 
mere curiosity. She took off her 
clothes and shoes and sat shivering 
in a blanket until Daddy and Aunt 
Ellen came. 
"It was all my fault," explained 
Marjorie. "I forgot to tell Patty 
about the water in the basement. She 
did not know we could not hide 
down there." 
Daddy looked at Patty. She knew 
what he was thinking. She hoped 
that he would not say what he usu-
ally said, "Curiosity once killed a 
cat!" She did not want Marjorie and 
Aunt Ellen to know the real reason 
she had for opening that little white 
door, but she did determine that 
hereafter she was not going to let 
her curiosity get away with her. 
DOCTOR SAYS 
(Continued from p. 21.) 
250 mg. Bile salts 150 mg. The bile 
salts should be coated to be released 
after entering the intestines. (2) Cramps 
in the legs may indicate that you are 
not receiving sufficient calcium in your 
food, or a failure of your body to as-
similate calcium. 
9 
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE KIDNEY: 
Ques.—"How can T. B. of the kidney 
be cured?" 
Ans.—The only advance in treating 
tubercular infection of the kidney in ad-
dition to absolute rest is by the use of 
- streptomycin over a prolonged period. 
There is no short treatment, only rest. 
time, and perseverance can succeed. 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUST: 
Ques.—"How may the bust be devel-
oped?" 
Ans.—There have been some seem-
ingly good results by the careful medi-
cal use of Cortolex and Stilbesterol. 
However, this must be done under medi-
cal supervision. 
9 
PILES; OILY FACE: Ques.—"(1) My 
son aged twenty-five years is suffering 
from piles. Someone said that as the 
patient is unmarried he should not be 
operated upon yet. Is this correct? (2) 
How can one cure an excessively oily 
complexion ?" 
Ans.—(1) Piles needing surgical in- 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 
tervention can be operated upon when-
ever there is need for surgery. Being 
unmarried has no relation to the opera-
tion. In fact, if his piles are very 
troublesome he will be in a much bet-
ter condition for marriage after the piles 
have been cured. Make certain of 
selecting an experienced surgeon who 
knows this work thoroughly. (2) •Scrub-
bing the skin with soap and then ap-
plying a lotion consisting of equal parts 
of Ethyl alcohol and witch hazel is an 
effective treatment. 
1951 
ASTHMA AND TUBERCULOSIS: 
Ques.—"A patient of mine has asthmatic 
attacks every morning upon rising and 
if he eats food containing much fat or 
cooked in fat he has heavy attacks, and 
also experiences a feeling of much fla-
tulence and rigidity in his abdomen. 
His sputum has been tested with posi-
tive T. B. results but chest and sinus 
X-rays have been taken and everything 
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infection somewhere along the respira-
tory passages. The throat irritation may 
indicate laryngial involvement as the 
focal site. The asthma might then be 
due to sensitization to the T. B. toxins 
or to the T. B. organisms themselves. 
The remedy then is to cure the tuber-
cular infection. The rigidity after eating 
foods cooked in fats is due to indiges-
tion and flatulence. Such a person should 
avoid foods that are prepared in this 
manner. 
9 
INFANTILE CIRRHOSIS: Ques.—
"My child died on the eighth day due 
to infantile cirrhosis. How could this 
disease develop so early? What precau-
tions should be taken to prevent any 
future child from suffering this way?" 
Ans.—Infantile cirrhosis is believed to 
be due to vitamin and protein defi-
ciencies in the mother. Especially the 
vitamin A and B complex. Cod liver oil 
and Brewer's yeast tablets given in 
sufficient quantity to ensure meeting tis-
sue and pregnancy requirements is ad-
vised. In addition, one should provide 
sufficient daily Use of milk, fresh butter 
and milk curds for the complete pro-
tein elements and vitamin A require-
ments. 
9 
HEART MISSING BEAT; PER-
SPIRING HANDS: Ques.—" (1) Some-
times late at night I feel my heart miss 
a beat and it gives me a terrible shock. 
This trouble only lasts a few seconds 
and occurs only at night when I am in 
bed. What is your advice? (2) The 
palms of my hands and soles of my 
feet always perspire when other parts 
of the body do not. I hate to shake 
hands with people because my hands are 
always wet. Is there any remedy for 
this?" 
Ans.—(1) This condition is called 
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sinus arrhythmia, and consists of varys' 
ing forms of irregular pulse beat. The 
cause frequently is some irritant in the 
form of tobacco, alcohol, or irritating 
foods, like curries. Certain medicines 
may also produce these symptoms. They 
are not serious—only annoying if one 
worries over them. If you indulge in 
any of the above they should be dis-
continued. Make certain of a natural 
diet, particularly vitamin E which is 
abundant in fresh wheat germ. (2) This 
condition is considered largely due to 
mental stimuli. The very mental atti-
tude you mention of not liking to shake 
hands with people illustrates the kind 
of sub-conscious influence which induces 
the symptom. Try using on your hands 
a solution of equal parts of Ethyl alco-
hol and witch hazel. Also a solution of 
aluminium chloride and salicylic acid in 
cologne water is often helpful. Your 
chemist will have such solutions. 
RUN-DOWN CONDITION: Ques.—"I 
am losing weight, am anmmic, and 
suffer from constipation. I am always 
worried and depressed and have no in-
terest in anything. What can I do to 
remedy this state of affairs?" 
Ans.—Your description suggests a 
marked vitamin deficiency, especially of 
the B complex.. You could, with real 
profit take regularly a multi-vitamin 
preparation, also three Brewer's yeast 
tablets with each meal. This must be 
continued regularly to substitute for 
the deficiency in your diet. Constipation 
calls for liberal daily use of fresh fruits. 
In fact your condition might improve 
considerably if you went on an ex-
clusive milk and fruit diet, for one 
month. Take plenty of both. 
GAS IN THE STOMACH: Ques.—
"Please let us know a cure for gas in 
the stomach. We both, husband and 
wife, suffer from this. We are non-
drinkers and non-smokers. I was a 
heavy smoker but upon reading advice 
given in your journal have given it up 
altogether." 
Ans.—Gas means imperfect digestion. 
This may be due to several causes such 
as hasty eating, drinking too much with 
the meals, or incompatible combinations 
at one meal. Use of fried, or food 
cooked in fats or oils, and over-eating, 
are also cause for indigestion. Good di-
gestion requires vitamin B complex. 
Make certain these B groups of vita-
mins are not lost by your method of 
cooking. I advise you to read and study 
carefully the little book entitled "Food" 
by _Robert McCarrison and see if your 
diet needs correction. 
SALIVA SECRETION: Ques.—"A 
long-standing trouble of mine is con-
stant salivating and passing of phlegm, 
so that I have to clear the throat and 
use a spittoon all the time. I am 
seventy-eight years of age and am also 
concerned over the trembling of my 
hands which I cannot control." 
Ans.—Normally one forms from two 
to three pints of saliva daily. This is 
automatically swallowed without being 
noticed. With you there is most likely 
some interference in the swallowing 
mechanism as part of your trembling 
problem, so that the saliva collects in 
the mouth instead of being swallowed 
as normally would be done. Other 
sources of excessive saliva are chronic 
syphilis, mercury poisoning from the 
use of calomel for relief of constipa- 
tion, arsenic and bromides, pyorrhoea 
and other mouth infections. The cause 
must be determined to ascertain the 
best relief measures. The shaking is a 
condition called Parkinson's syndrome. 
To avoid excitement, is the main re-
quisite. When the spasms are painful 
the use of anti-spasmodics is helpful. 
Your doctor will know which type is 
beet for you. 
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CHOLESTEROL: Ques.—"In one ar-
ticle in 'HEALTH' you state that 
foods containing the highest cholesterol 
content are butter, egg yolks, etc. Then 
it is also stated that chlorophyll (from 
green leafy vegetables) together with 
the natural vitamin A complex con-
tains cholesterol-reducing substances. 
But in a vitamin chart under Vita-
min A are included the above-mentioned 
butter, _egg yolk, etc., which are stated 
to have the highest cholesterol content. 
If so, how can they at the same time 
be cholesterol-reducing? I assume that 
the vitamin A would contain these in-
gredients—but possibly I am wrong." 
Ans.—Cholesterol is a natural consti-
tuent of our food. and like other nor-
mal food factors only becomes harmful 
when not fulfilling its natural function. 
It is only when one fails to eat normal 
undenatured foods that trouble follows. 
In its normal state, and eaten in nor-
mal proportions as a well-balanced 
diet, there is no danger from cholesterol. 
If the blood vessels become irritated 
from tobacco, alcohol, or irritating 
spices, then there is danger of choles-
terol deposits. Eating food with all of 
its normal contents as nature con-
structs it is the safest course. We need 
butter unchanged, eggs in limited quan-
tity together with milk, milk curds, 
whole meal, vegetables, and fruits. 
Plenty of water to maintain circulation 
and elimination is also needed. Choles-
terol is a lipoid or fat-like substance. 
Chlorophyll is the green colouring sub-
stance in vegetables. These are not the 
same. Chlorophyll or green vegetables 
are useful in keeping cholesterol in solu-
tion so that it is not so easily de- 
posited in the walls of the blood ves-
sels. 
KHAN- AND WASSERMAN TESTS: 
Ques.—"Some years ago I had syphi-
lis but after treatment both Kahn and 
Wasserman tests were negative. I still 
feel suspicious that I may have some 
infection left in my body and want to 
make sure. 'Which test is most reliable—
Khan or Wasserman?" 
Ans.—If. several tests have all been 
negative this is good evidence that you 
have no active syphilis. If you desire 
still more confirmation, however, you 
could have a spinal fluid test done. This 
is the most confirmative test that is 
done. Both the Khan and Wasserman 
tests are about of equal value. 
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"Safety First" Rules 
Don't 
take a 
Laxative 
Do go 
to bed — 
stay quiet 
0 
hot or cold 
applications 
"-.1 
Call 
your doctor 
immediately 
".itomach-ache or appendicitis? That is for your doctor to tell! 
Greatest appendicitis dangers: home remedies, delay! 
Symptoms: Pain in the abdomen, sometimes with nausea, 
vomiting, slight fever. Follow the above "life-saving" rules. 
Modern surgery and new drugs have eliminated most risks of 
appendectomies. Recovery is surer, quicker, pleasanter! 
What you can do against Appendicitis. 
 
APPENDICITIS NEEDN'T FRIGHTEN YOU, if 
recognized in time! Serious consequences 
from appendicitis can nearly always be 
avoided by proper, early treatment. How-
ever, appendicitis (an inflammation of 
the appendix, which is a small organ 
attached to the large intestine) often 
feels like a simple stomach-ache. Many 
people ignore it until too late! if the 
doctor were always called immediately 
after this pain starts, the number of 
deaths from appendicitis could be cut 
in half! 
WARNING! DON'T TREAT YOURSELF ! Most 
common mistake that is made—taking a 
laxative or enema. This often causes the 
appendix to "rupture" and spread the 
infection. A study of appendicitis made 
in a large city showed that deaths were 
more than cut in half when laxatives 
were avoided. So don't take home reme-
dies, don't apply ice bags or hot water 
bottles. With any suspicious stomach. 
ache, be very sure to call your doctor 
at once! He alone can properly diagnose 
and correctly treat it. 
IF YOUR DOCTOR RECOMMENDS AN OPERA-
TION, follow his advice, and don't worry. 
Usually the removal of an appendix is 
a "routine" operation which the surgeon 
has performed countless times, and which 
takes only a few minutes. And now, new 
drugs and modern anaesthetics assure 
safer operations and protection against 
complications. You can reasonably expect 
(1) a pleasant convalescence (2) release 
from the hospital in less than a week 
(3) return to normal health in less than 
3 weeks! 
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LOOKING AFTER THE WORKERS' HEALTH IN THE 
ISLAND OF CYPRUS 
Committee meetings, climbing up scaffoldings or crawling 
der machinery are all in the day's work for Cyprus Labour 
spectors. Their job is to safeguard the island's factory worli 
and this means not only investigating working conditions in 
dinary factories, but visiting the smaller cottage type induct: 
as well. Mediating in industrial disputes needs ample patiei 
but in this role Inspector Eliophotou often averts serious stoppa 
Photo on left shows meeting under hischairmanship in wk 
building industry employers and trade union leaders discuss t 
vital problem, the wage packet. 
s.-7— • ' �
40;40'1' 
Photo on right shows saw equipment with properly protected 
guards and fencing which meets with Inspector Eliophotou's 
approval. 
Photo on left: Before he is satisfied this scaffolding on 
wall of the Nicosia Moat is safe, the Inspector takes a close 
view the hard way—up the ladder. 
Photo on right: Inspector Eliophotou reports details of an ac-
cident to the Labour Department Commissioner, a member of the 
Executive Council. 
Registered No. B-1886. Pak. No. L-5668. 
ORIENTAL WATCHMAN 
SEPTEMBER �SUPPLEMENT �
1951 
THE FAILURE OF SCIENCE 
No Salvation Apart From God 
t FREDERICK LEE 
T
HE twentieth century dawned 
bright and clear. Paans to 
the god of progress arose on 
every hand. The hearts of men 
glowed with the shining promise of 
good things to come. The golden age 
portrayed by poet and philosopher 
seemed not far distant. Ministers of 
the church declaimed on the nearing 
millennium. 
The nineteenth century had been 
a period of exuberant optimism. 
Auguste Comte, of France, apostle 
of science, enthroned the idea of in-
evitable progress in the minds of 
men early in the century. Joseph 
Priestley, English clergyman and 
chemist, prophesied that man's "end 
will be glorious and paradisiacal be-
yond what our imaginations can con-
ceive," all this to be brought about 
by applied science. 
In its first issue of 1950, Time, re-
viewing events of the past fifty years, 
referred thus to the high hopes of 
men at the turn of the century: 
"On January 1, 1900, the world 
looked forward to the twentieth cen-
tury with a degree of confidence un-
equalled by any previous age and 
unregained since. Paced fast or slow, 
progress was sure, limitless, ir-
reversible. Virtue walked with pro-
gress; they fed each other." 
Henry Steele Commager, professor 
of history at Columbia University, 
writing of the optimism of that early 
day, said, "Not only had the nine-
teenth century achieved such pro-
gress as men could scarcely imagine, 
it had vindicated the philosophy of 
progress."—New York Times Maga-
zine, Dec. 25, 1949. 
The twentieth century had not ad-
vanced far before something ap-
peared to be going wrong with hu-
man plans and reckoning. The peace 
that was to be multiplied throughout 
the earth suddenly disappeared be- 
fore the terror of the first world war, 
which left man stunned and bleeding. 
Hope, however, still persisted. Now 
man had learned his lesson, so it was 
thought. There would be no more 
war. In downright abandon, such as 
had not been known in Western civi-
lization before, men and women gave 
themselves over to corrupting in-
fluences. The war was over, so let 
life be merry! Thus it went until 
1929, when the world-wide economic 
crash brought men to their senses 
and made them realize that all was 
not right with the world. From then 
on the world plunged deeper and 
deeper into depression, doubt, and 
fear, until the second world war 
brought man almost to utter despair. 
The journey from exuberant opti-
mism to unreasoning pessimism took 
but a few short years and changed 
the whole picture of man's estimate 
of life on this earth. 
Thus Time (January 2, 1950), 
continuing its rehearsal of the events 
of the past fifty years, described the 
change that came over the world: 
"Starting with superb confidence, 
the twentieth century plunged vigor-
ously forward from ambush to am-
bush. Other ages may have suffered 
greater agonies; none suffered 
greater surprises. Much that seemed 
for the best turned out for the 
worst.... 
"Shock after shock threw civili-
zation into confusion. As the twenti-
eth century plunged on, long-familiar 
bearings were lost in the mists of 
change." 
The New York Times (December 
25, 1949) also described this change: 
- "Gradually, a haze drew over the 
bright Victorian skies. One by one 
the buoyant hopes of the Victorians 
were doomed to disappointment. 
Within less than half a, century 
prosperity gave way to ruin, univer- 
sal peace to universal war, certainty 
to fear, security to insecurity, the 
ideal of progress to the doubt of sur-
vival. Never before in history had 
such bright hopes been so ruthlessly 
shattered; never had the philosophi-
cal temper undergone so profound a 
change." 
An editorial in The Saturday Re-
view of Literature of January 7, 
1950, reflected the startling change 
that has taken place in man's out-
look during recent years: 
"Time has written a period in hu-
man annals but no new certainty in 
human affairs. The decade ushered 
in by war has passed, but the dilem-
mas, indirections, and complexities of 
the era still confound the present and 
confuses the future. Fear rides in 
men's hearts, and where fear exists 
creative imagination is atrophied.... 
Ever since the outcropping of totali-
tarianism we have lived on the edge 
of disaster.... There still lurks be-
hind all thought for the future the 
uneasy suspicion that time may be 
running out and that man's fate 
hangs in precarious balance." 
Badly shaken by two world wars, 
man's modern Tower of Babel began 
to totter. Obviously, man was no in-
fallible builder. Progress was not in-
evitable. Science, though acquiring 
almost god-like powers in a few 
short years, had no saviour for a day 
like this. 
By the end of the war scientists 
and statesmen were not too certain 
that science was an unalloyed bless-
ing. They began to sense the need of 
some saving grace such as religion 
might give. Everywhere we began to 
hear men talking of the need of a 
return to religion, of a consideration 
of God's plan for mankind. Men be-
gan to see that the world could not get 
along without God, for science alone 
might bring about its destruction. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 �
1 
In a world that is tottering to its ruin, our only safety is 
in Christ Jesus, our Saviour. 
Many thinking men began writing 
along this line. Raymond B. Fos-
dick, president of the Rockefeller 
Foundation, declared: 
"The desperate crisis which we 
face today in human affairs is due to 
the disproportion between our devel-
opment of science and engineering 
on the one hand, and our knowledge 
of human behaviour and social rela-
tions on the other. Perhaps a simpler 
phrasing of the dilemma would be 
that the physical power at our dis-
posal has forged far ahead of our 
capacity to make wise use of it.... 
For the first time in his history, 
man's curiosity and ingenuity have 
led him to sources of physical power 
by which, unless ethical and social 
restraints can be discovered, he will 
blow himself and his institutions into 
final dust."—New York Times, Dec. 
19, 194.8. 
Now we are hearing much talk of 
a terrible crisis in Western civiliza-
tion. We are being told by scientists 
themselves that unless some saving 
device can be immediately found, 
the world is doomed. Many who once 
scorned the very thought, are writ-
ing of the end of the world. 
What is the true meaning of this 
unhappy change that has come over 
the life of man? What lessons does 
this half-century teach us? 
First, it tells us in startling tones 
that man cannot stand alone, and 
that science has no saving power. 
Without God, man is hopelegs. 
Again we learn that progress is 
not inevitable. The opposite is true. 
Even without the added testimony of 
God's Word, recent events, recorded 
in letters of blood, declare that the 
evil in man outweighs the good, and 
that humanity is lost unless a Sav-
iour comes to redeem him. 
The Bible plainly declares, "There 
is none righteous, no, not one." Ro-
mans 3:10. "All have sinned, and 
come short of the glory of God." 
Verse 23. "The wages of sin is 
death." Romans 6:23. 
Isaiah the prophet exclaimed, "But 
the wicked are like the troubled sea, 
when it cannot rest, whose waters 
cast up mire and dirt. There is no 
peace, saith my God, to the wicked." 
Isaiah 57:20, 21. 
The Bible pictures a world brought 
forth from the hand of God in a 
perfect state, and tells how it fell 
from that high, plane into a pit of 
iniquity. The plight of man was to 
grow worse and worse until the need 
of redemption was fully evident and 
man would be led to cry out in his 
lost condition, "Lord, save me." 
If this is not true, then why was 
it necessary for God to send His 
only-begotten Son to live with man 
and to die an ignominious death in 
order to redeem the world? If evolu-
tion be true, then man needs no 
saviour. That is exactly what the 
learned men of the eighteenth and 
nineteenth centuries taught. As far 
as they were concerned, Christ was 
crucified for nought. But now their 
whole scheme of things has fallen 
like a house of 
cards. Utopia 
does not appear 
so certain as it 
once did. 
Concerning this 
world �
immedi- 
ately after crea-
tion, the Scrip-
ture tells us, 
"God saw every-
thing that He had 
made, and, be-
hold, it was very 
g o o d." Genesis 
1:31. Later, the 
wise man said, 
"God hath made 
man upright; but 
they have sought 
out many inven-
tions." Ecclesias-
tes 7:29. 
At the time of 
the Flood, the re-
cord states, "God 
saw that the wick- 
edness of man was great in the 
earth, and that every imagination of 
the thoughts of his heart was only 
evil continually." Genesis 6:5. 
Concerning the last days, Jesus de-
clared, "As the days of Noah were, 
so shall also the coming of the Son 
of man be." Matthew 24:37. Through 
the apostle Paul, God prophesied that 
in the last days perilous times would 
come. Men would be lovers of their 
own selves rather than lovers of God. 
And of this time he said: 
"But evil men and seducers shall 
wax worse and worse, deceiving, and 
being deceived." 2 Timothy 3:13. 
Jeremiah pictures the frustration 
and disillusionment of our times in 
these words: 
"We looked for peace, but no good 
came; and for a time of health, and 
behold trouble!" Jeremiah 8:15. 
The prophet accurately describes 
the feeling of many today in these 
graphic words: 
"My bowels, my bowels! I am 
pained at my very heart; my heart 
maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold 
my peace, because thou hast heard, 
0 my soul, the sound of the trumpet, 
the alarm of war. Destruction upon 
destruction is cried; for the whole 
land is spoiled: suddenly are my 
tents spoiled, and my curtains in 
a moment. How long shall I see the 
standard, and hear the sound of the 
trumpet?" Jeremiah 4:19-21. 
This is clear. Man's plight is des-
perate, and he can only be saved 
through an intervention of God Him-
self. The Lord Himself must bring 
an end to human history as we know 
it and begin all over again with a 
redeemed race of men who are 
wholly and gladly subject to His 
will. Not until then will lasting peace 
appear. There is no truth in the 
preaching that man, through the 
arm of science, can work out his 
own redemption. The evidences of 
this have greatly increased in recent 
years. 
But there is hope, and that hope is 
in God. The present lesson for us is 
that we must look to God and to 
Him alone. The true Christian, the 
student of prophecy, has riot been 
disillusioned by what has happened. 
He has seen all this coming and has 
preached about it for many years. 
He knows that these things are but 
a token of that day concerning which 
Christ said, "When ye see these 
things come to pass, know ye that 
the kingdom of God is nigh at 
hand." Luke 21:31. 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 
POWER 
OF THE BIBLE 
How the Book of Books Can Help You Solve Your Problems and 
Overcome Temptation 
WILLIAM G. WIRTH 
S EVIDENCE that God loves 
us, and has confidence in us, 
we have the gift of His Son, 
who died that we might be saved 
from sin. That same divine love that 
was concerned to save us from sin 
through the sacrifice of Christ is 
also concerned to keep us from sin 
through the ministry of His Word, 
the Holy Scriptures. 
The Bible does this, first, by giv-
ing us a clean, pure heart, a. heart 
that is set right toward God. We 
read in Psalm 119:9: "Wherewithal 
shall a young man cleanse his way? 
by taking heed thereto according to 
Thy Word." By inheritance we have 
been born with a tendency to sin. 
David sensed this when he prayed, 
"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and 
in sin did my mother conceive me." 
Psalm 51:5. But he knew that there 
was help for him, that it was pos-
sible for his heart to be cleansed 
from evil; for he appealed to God 
a little farther on in this same psalm 
in these words, "Create in me a 
clean heart, 0 God; and renew a 
right spirit within me." Verse 10. 
It is one of the glories of the 
Book that it can cleanse our hearts 
from bad motives and put within us 
righteous springs of conduct. It is 
imperative that our motives be right 
if we would be right in our living. 
This lesson Jesus emphasized clearly 
in Matthew 15:18-20: "But those 
things which proceed out of the 
mouth come forth from the heart; 
and they defile the man. For out of 
the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur-
ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, 
false witness, blasphemies: these are 
the things which defile a man: but to 
eat with unwashen hands defileth not 
a man." 
In all the history of Christianity 
those who have championed the 
cause of right, who have resisted 
wrong, as did Martin Luther, were 
stirred to action by the cleansing 
power of the Word in their lives. 
Let the seed of Scripture grow in 
the inner man, and it cannot fail to 
change his conduct. "So clear away 
all the foul rank growth of malice, 
and make a soil of humble modesty 
for the Word which roots itself in-
wardly with power to save your 
souls. Act on the Word, instead of 
merely listening to it and deluding 
yourselves." James 1:21, 22, Mof-
fatt. Peter confirms this when he 
writes: "Being born again, not of 
corruptible seed, but of incorrupti-
ble, by the Word of God, which 
liveth and abideth forever." 1 Peter 
1:23. 
Not only will the Bible give us a 
clean heart to do God's will by clear-
ing away inherited sin; it gives us 
spiritual power to resist sin. "Thy 
Word have I hid in mine heart, that 
I might not sin against Thee." Psalm 
119:11. 
Ask any doctor for the best way 
to resist taking a cold, to keep from 
contracting illness, and he will tell 
you to see to it that you keep strong 
your physical reserve force through 
proper and sufficient food, enough 
sleep and rest, and exercise. Do this, 
and you will have the best possible 
defence against physical ills. Like-
wise there is no better means of re-
sisting sin than in keeping our hearts 
in good spiritual condition by fre-
quent reading of the Bible and by 
prayer. This is what the psalmist had 
in mind when he said, "The law of 
his God is in his heart; none of his 
steps shall slide." Psalm 37:31. 
Christ exemplified this for us 
when, after every one of the three-
temptations the devil presented to 
Him in the wilderness, He met the 
satanic challenge with "It is written." 
(See Matthew 4:4, 7, 10.) If our 
Lord employed this method of coun-
tering evil, could there be any better 
way for us to rout the enemy of 
our souls? The great evangelist 
Dwight L. Moody well knew the 
value of the Scriptures as the reserve 
force against iniquity, for he de-
clared that a man cannot backslide 
more than twenty-four hours if he 
reads his Bible every day. The apos-
tle John had full knowledge of this 
fundamental truth in Christian living 
when he penned the words, "I have 
written unto you, young men, be-
cause ye are strong, and the Word of 
God abideth in you, and ye have 
overcome the wicked one." 1 John 
2:14. 
Living is made exceedingly difficult 
these days by reason of the over-
whelming problems that crowd in 
upon us—personal, domestic, busi-
ness, professional, and social. Surely, 
if we ever needed reserve power of 
soul to meet and solve them, it is 
now. Books based on psychiatry may 
help us to some extent, but only the 
Bible, with its potent problem-solving 
ability, can really supply our need. 
"For the Word of God is quick, and 
powerful, and sharper than any two-
edged sword, piercing even to the 
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, 
and of the joints and marrow, and 
is a discerner of the thoughts and in-
tents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12. 
The Bible gives us sound prin-
ciples to govern our actions, as we 
discover in the Ten Commandments, 
in the Sermon on the Mount, and in 
the teachings of prophets and apos-
tles. More than that, it affords case 
studies of men and women with hu-
man weaknesses like our own. It 
shows how David met and conquered 
the problem of carnality; Moses, the 
ambitions of this world; Jacob, self-
acquisitiveness; Peter, his impul-
siveness; and Paul, his religious 
hatred. 
One of our most pressing prob-
lems today is how to maintain sound 
physical and mental health. Here, re-
markably enough, the Bible is corn- 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951 �
3 
ing into its own. More and more, as 
medical science is showing the in-
separable connection between mind 
and body, it is being impressed upon 
us that health of soul means health 
of muscle and nerve. Increasingly 
physicians are recommending the 
promises and assurances of the 
Scriptures for sure therapeutic value. 
We discern more clearly now the 
truthfulness of the words, "He sent 
His :word, and healed them, and de-
livered them from their destruc-
tions." Psalm 107:20. Also, we are 
A
LL LIFE revolves around 
"Love." It is, in fact, the pivot 
on which the whole universe 
spins. All creation sprang from the 
great love that was in the heart of 
God. There was the urge to create 
from the desire to share life with 
others. 
As we look upon the marvellous 
co-ordination and adaptation of life 
on the earth we know that God is the 
Source of all wisdom and power. The 
mind of God only could conceive the 
beauty and orderliness of this world, 
to say nothing of the rest of the 
universe, of which we know but 
little. 
Nature proclaims on every hand 
that a master-mind has planned every 
detail of life. There is far too per-
fect a balance in nature for it to be 
the outcome of accident or chance. 
Evidence points definitely to a well-
conceived plan carefully executed in 
which the component parts dove-tail 
into a most pleasing and harmonious 
pattern of life. 
MAN'S POSITION IN THE SCHEME OF 
THINGS 
Of all the creatures on the face of 
the earth man only is able to esti-
mate and appreciate the meaning of 
what he sees about him. He only can 
reason and prove from things seen, 
the existence of God, to whom he 
feels a sense of personal obligation; 
and as he weighs the facts carefully 
in his mind he is overwhelmed by 
the thought that everything in nature 
seems to have been planned with 
him in mind and for him. Flowers 
give him pleasure. No animals lower 
learning the scientific accuracy of 
the admonition, "My son, forget not 
My law; but let thine heart keep My 
commandments: for length of days, 
and long life, and peace, shall they 
add to thee." Proverbs 3:1, 2. 
Thus the Bible can give pill 
strength for today. .Shall we not 
make this Book our guide and coun-
sellor, not merely respecting it, but 
assimilating it, realizing that "man 
shall not live by bread alone, but by 
every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of God"? Matthew 4:4. 
than man have any idea of the infi-
nite varieties of flowers, nor do they 
seem in any sense to be emotionally 
stirred by them. In fact, they are 
perfectly indifferent to their very ex-
istence. 
Gorgeous sunsets drive man into 
ecstacies of feeling, but they leave 
animals unmoved, or at least uncon-
cerned. A thousand and one beauti-
ful aspects of nature appeal only to 
man, whose esthetic sense is a gift 
from God and which by God's help 
he can develop to a high degree. 
MAN CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE 
God in the beginning said, "Let us 
make man in our own image." He 
also said, "He shall have dominion 
over the animals." This at once ex-
plains the wide gulf that exists be-
tween man and the lower orders of 
life. Man's superior intelligence and 
his mastery over the animals con-
firms the Bible story of his origin. 
Man was created perfect and the 
earth as it came forth from the hand 
of God was without blemish. Death 
and decay resulted from sin—from 
a transgression of the law of the 
spirit of love. The moral law which 
was implanted in the heart of that 
first pair in Eden was based on the 
great principle of love. That law was 
to govern man's relationship to God 
and all his human associations. It is 
a perfect law and has come down 
through the centuries unchanged. 
Man with all his ingenuity has 
not been able to think out a single 
moral principle which is not already 
embodied in the Ten Commandments. 
Through disobedience man in-
curred God's displeasure and brought 
on his head the consequences of sin. 
"The wages of sin is death." This 
sentence faced him, and if the great 
love of God had not been exercised 
on his behalf he would have been 
eternally lost. 
Sin brought decay. The earth was 
cursed and brought forth thorn and 
thistle. To man the pronouncement 
was, "By the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread." To Eve, "In sorrow 
thou shalt bring forth children." 
There was, however, hope for 
fallen humanity. God's great plan of 
redemption was wide enough and 
perfect enough to include within it, 
not only our first parents, but all the 
countless millions of their progeny 
to the end of time. 
There must be a restoration of 
the image of God lost through sin, 
and that was made possible through 
Jesus Christ who is the express im-
age of God. "Beholding Him [Jesus] 
we are changed." 
If we keep Christ always before us 
as our Example and walk in His 
footsteps we shall become trans-
formed in character and fulfil the 
Scripture exhortation, "Be ye per-
fect, even as your Father in heaven is 
perfect" 
The Son of Cod was sent from 
heaven to make manifest the Father. 
Jesus on one occasion said, "He that 
bath seen Me bath seen the Father." 
The character of Christ is the char-
acter of God. Love, mercy, and com-
passion, were seen in every act of 
Jesus. 
God gave us His Son. We are 
reconciled through the blood of 
Jesus. "God was in Christ, recon-
ciling the world unto Himself." All 
heaven was emptied in the bestowal 
of the Son as Redeemer. "God so 
loved the world that He gave His 
only begotten Son." John 3:16. 
"Behold, what manner of love the Fa-
ther bath bestowed upon us." 1 John 
3:1. We really cannot comprehend this 
love. It is beyond the mind of man. 
Through faith we can appropriate 
to ourselves this love of the Father 
and become sons and daughters of 
God. The exercise of faith is all that 
is required of us. "Believe in the 
Son of God and ye shall have ever-
lasting life." 
If ever we are in danger of losing 
our concept of the love of God, let 
us turn to the open book of nature, 
and look up into the heavens and we 
shall see there unmistakable evi-
dences of the wisdom and power and 
love of the Creator which have come 
from His hands. 
THE LOVE OF GOD 
D. C. CLAESSEN 
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• THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1951