As it happened, mine has been a lone quest. As I see it, the pilgrim has attain ed his perfect day when he has 
gained health of body, mind and soul, when he possesses an 
abundance of life's good things and dwell in harmony with his 
environment. So far as my contact with it has gone, the church has never set 
such a goal for its members. Rather the church has adjured poverty in 
the here and now, to fit oneself fo r the more abundant life hereafter 
but as the tree falleth so it lieth. As I read it, such is not the implication of the Sermon on the 
Mount, which holds the sum and substance of Jesus' message: "Lay 
not up for yourselves treasure upon earth." That tenet, if obeyed, would eliminate the love of money, which 
Paul taught was the root of all ev il. Eliminate evil and you eliminate 
the causes of sickness, sorrow and death. In all my 75 years of church going I have never heard this doctrine expounded from the pulpit. But 
I read Amos' prophecy and find the identical teaching: "See good and 
not evil, that he may live" . . . and never ill and in want. My own profession, dentistry, and medicine also, it seems to me, 
fail in the same way. Neither can se e the underlying causes of human 
ills for the symptoms. Consequently , the three leading professions 
dedicated to the service of mankind, the clergy, dentistry and 
medicine, do not teach or practice the way of life. That teaching is all 
in the Bible, but our preachers do not master it. Seemingly they are content to quote stray passages of scripture taken out of its content to support their own ideas of what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely or of 
good report. As it seems to me, both dentistry and medicine are rather 
disposed to disown any member of their respective professions who 
would dare teach the true way of life, which would prevent most of 
the disease, poverty and misery which afflict mankind today. The churches teach that the Devil is responsible for all the 
wrongs abroad in the world today—but I say that man himself is 
responsible for those evils. He has wandered far from the good way 
that the law and the prophets and the Nazarene laid out for him. Today he is lost in a bog, confused and bewildered, groping for a path back to the King's highway. That has come to pass, I believe, because men, instead of 
thinking upon things of good report, as Paul advised in his letter to the 
Phillippians, have thought upon disease, loss, poverty, depression and war. Fearing those evils, man has brought them upon himself. Disease 
is man-made. Poverty is man-made . Depressions and wars are man-
made. As I have said before, and I repeat, the 20-odd years since my 
60th birthday have been the best years of my life. It was not until I 
began fasting or perhaps eating lightly of fruits or vegetables or juices, to correct bodily conditions which ha d threatened my life that ideas 
and visions of that good way of life came flooding my being. Thus for 
the first time I had achieved spiritual heights to get some inkling of the 
meaning of life, to taste the satisfactions which the good way might 
hold for me. I have since striven to continue in that way. Dreamlike 
thoughts and visions pour in on me and open up vistas never glimpsed during my younger years. It follows that the widely held notion that at 60 a man is too old 
to work at his job, full of pains and inefficient, and ought to retire, is 
far removed from my experience. Had I continued to feed my appetite, 
as I had done in youth and middle lif e, then I would have been ready 
to go on the shelf at 60. What happens to a man after 60. I have concluded, depends on 
the man himself. He must decide what master he will serve, whether 
he will yield to his physical appetites that will drag him down or will 
resolutely choose and pursue the good way of life, that promises him 
good health, efficiency and durable satisfactions long past his three 
score years and ten. CHAPTER 37. SIGNALS ON LIFE'S HIGHWAY 
 As a foresighted motorist, the reader would not think of starting 
out on a cross-country tour without a supply of up-to-date road maps. Life is a journey too, but we pass over the route only once. For that 
reason it is much more important that we study life's maps, chart the way we mean to follow and learn what we can concerning what is to 
be expected along the road. The better we know ourselves, the better 
we understand the rules of the road (which are nature's laws), the more 
we shall reap from the journey in health and happiness and in beauty 
seen by the way. On this life journey, we have to obey two sets of traffic rules, 
natural law and man-made law. For every moment of our lives we are 
subject to that dual authority. The rewards which we earn and the 
penalties which we incur depend upo n how well we learn and keep the 
law. The reader knows well enough which is the more important. He 
can sometimes break a man-made law, exceed the speed limit or cut a 
corner and get away with it. By contrast, experience has taught him 
that nature never overlooks a mistake. There are no suspended sentences, paroles and pardons in nature's court. Man-made customs, 
conventions and standards of value are constantly changing. Each 
generation sets up its own. If we wish to be happy on the west side of 
this rise (in life's journey), we must not stake our all on man-made 
values. These will one day become ou t of date and be discarded. New 
standards will be substituted to fit the new time. Not so with natural 
law, God's law, that is changeless and eternal. It  is therefore important 
that the traveler on Life's Road le arn Nature's Laws and learn that he 
must obey those laws if he is to find the going smooth. Particularly when the young man starts out from the parental 
home to make his own way, he needs a map to guide him. It is essential first of all that he know himself; but he should also know the natural and man-made laws with whic h he has to deal. It will help to 
inform him that the roadside is we ll strewn with signs and signals for 
who can read. No lesson that a young man can learn is more important 
than learning to look for, recognize and read aright the signals on life's 
highway. As a practicing dentist, after I had once learned how food makes 
the man, I could look at signs in my patient's mouth and tell him the 
type of food he lived upon, whether he had a "sweet tooth" and ate 
heavily of white bread, syrup, cakes and pies, or that he had a strong 
appetite for beef, gravy and pork ch ops, or, again if he consumed 
enough salads and drank enough pure raw milk. Common sense teaches me that th ose signs are not confined to 
the mouth. If a person's diet is not properly balanced, or if he has 
sinned against his body by too much or too little exercise, too little 
sleep or excesses of any kind, there will be warning signs that nature 
has put out. It may be a pimple, a fever sore, a stiff joint, a pain in the 
chest, a cough or shortness of breath. Whatever the sign, it is 
important that the person, or his family physician or other trained 
observer, read it, interpret it and see that the ill to which it points is 
corrected. There is an old saying: "Be sure your sins will find you 
out." That principle applies forcefully to sins against the body. Eat the 
wrong foods, eat too much, overwork or mistreat the body in any way 
and there will be warning signs. Happy the man who heeds them! Above all others, the mother should  be well drilled in reading those 
bodily signs and signals and should know what to do whenever the 
symptoms appear. Suppose the law let a man set himself up in an 
office to practice dentistry, to re pair decayed teeth, pull teeth and 
make new sets without training for the job. Well, when she undertakes 
to rear a child, the mother starts on a more complicated job than running a dental office. Along our principal highways, enterprising State engineers have 
installed ingenious signs which instan tly warn the driver of a curve to 
the right or left, a winding stretch, a crossing, a dip or other bad spots 
ahead. Now, a kind nature provides even more warning signs, even 
flashing lights that cannot be missed, along life's highway. To disregard those signs is to invite tr ouble, even to risk fatal disease. Nature's signals tell us what we ourselves are creating. For most 
diseases, like most highway wrecks, are man-made. Quicker than most sins against one's body, wrong eating habits exact their penalties. Eating the right food in the right quantity, but in sufficient variety to give zest to the appetite, is mightil y important because food keeps the 
body in repair, keeps the life processes going. Take a gentle white rat, a cat or any pet and feed it on the sort of 
diet that many parents feed their children, too heavy on white bread 
and sweets, too light on raw vegetables and milk, and the pet will soon 
become nervous and vicious. That is why I say that the way to prevent, or cure, juvenile delinquency is to see that all the children, including the under-privileged, get the food which they require for 
healthy bodies. Build sound bodies and you build steady nerves, clear 
brains and good morals. There are persons who have learned somehow in their youth to 
read and heed the signs and signals along life's road. As a result, each has lived long without aches and pains. Each has gained added 
wisdom with experience and so has found the world growing more 
beautiful and life more enjoyable as the years pass by. When I try to tell people about diet or the care of their bodies 
otherwise, some protest: "If I can't enjoy the things I like I had as well 
die." Now, I'd like to send the person who gives me an answer like 
that to consult one of those sages who has found the secret of the good 
and happy life. Then he might re alize how a perverted taste has 
betrayed him with a counterfeit happ iness. It is easy to cultivate an 
appetite for natural foods and to cultivate health habits which not only 
build sound bodies but nourish right thinking and the moral nature. CHAPTER 38. BORN AGAIN I EXPERIENCE A NEW LIFE 
 Only recently a group of my fellow townsmen, on a Hereford 
street corner, were talking about my  seemingly inexhaustible fund of 
health and vitality. One old friend of mine recalled that he had seen 
me when I was so weak that had I ventured just one more step it would have been my last. That incident in May, 1925, marked a 
turning point in my life. It was on that May morning I began to 
experience a rebirth. Then, in my 57th year, having seen a great light that revealed to 
me the double sources of my almost fatal sickness, bad eating and bad 
thinking, I began the upward climb which, except for a few stumbles, I 
have maintained since. Day by day I can think of myself as getting 
better and better. I am continually getting new ideas as to ways of 
living—ideas that seem to pop up in my head out of nowhere—and 
nothing will satisfy me but to put those ideas down on paper and, so 
far as practicable, try them out in my daily life. It appears to me, therefore, that I have robust health in my 80s, 
when I'm due to be old and feeble because I have continually revised 
my way of living. My secret, I'd say,  is to eat natural, unrefined, life-
giving foods and, the while, to think life-giving thoughts. I know well 
enough that my bodily machine, given the right materials to work 
within, can keep itself in repair. One day I ran across a carpenter at work and gave him a puzzle 
to solve: 
"What is the difference between a man and a building?" When he gave up, without even venturing a guess at the answer, I 
explained that a building cannot repair itself. It has no life and no power to think. Man, a living organism, as a general rule, can effect 
his own repairs. If he believes in himself and obeys Nature's laws, he 
will have but infrequent occasion to  call in the repair man (doctor). Nature will do the job for him. The trouble is too many people are set in their ways. By force of 
habit, they go through the same old round day after day. They get up 
at the same hour, ask for and get the same old breakfast, do the same 
routine work. Whatever they eat is cooked up in the same way, as on 
the day before. When lunch time and supper time come the process is repeated. Consequently, there is too much sameness in the diet. When it is subjected to, I should say punished by, that sort of 
routine, the body does not get all the elements which it needs for 
essential repairs and does not get the elements in the right proportion. Maybe the body comes up short of protein, calcium or phosphorus; 
but it is more apt to be found short on iron, magnesium, boron, iodine 
or some other 'trace element.' It is probably short also on the vitamins 
that keep life processes running smoothly because most persons 
subsist largely on white bread, potatoes, cakes, pies and meat. The 
typical diet is too heavy in sugar, starch, fats and oils. It is no wonder, under those circumstances that the bodily 
machinery gets out of kilter and th e person is plagued with aches and 
pains. More often than otherwise when he goes to the doctor that 
person gets medicine to soothe his pain but nothing more. He is not told that he must revise the family eating and other living habits which 
made him sick in the first place. For that reason, I say that, to do the 
job which they are supposed to do, both medicine and dentistry must 
get a new viewpoint. They must center their attention on finding and 
removing the causes of sickness or tooth decay, and not on relieving 
symptoms or repairing damage. If people must be slaves to habit—whether in eating, working for 
a living or amusing themselves, it seems to me, they at least might 
take pains to see that those habits  are constructive, not destructive. They should learn enough about diet; that is, about what elements the 
body and what foodstuffs will supply those elements, to pick out a 
well-balanced, health-giving menu a nd then make that habitual. Next, 
they should vary the day's work with healthful recreation. To sum up, people ought to cultivate health-building, not tearing-down habits. Why should a man be a slave to routine at all. Why should he not 
begin each new day highly resolved to be master of his little world, 
not a slave wearing a ball and chain. I think I know the reason why: Routine requires no effort of the mind. One can just drift through the day, do what is required half au tomatically and get by with it. By 
contrast, thinking is hard work. So me philosopher truthfully has said 
that "Nothing is so disturbing as a new thought." Yet, to me, nothing 
is more thrilling and rejuvenating than a new idea. Since I had my 
rebirth visions of new ways of lif e are coming to me continually. A 
flood of thoughts will pour upon me as I lie awake by night until I feel 
compelled to get up, turn on my lig hts and write down what has come 
to me. Even so during my years of health and constantly renewed life, 
I have contrived to keep certain key thoughts always before me. In 
particular, these verses from the Gospel have been my mainstay and 
guide: 
What things so ever ye desire, in my name, believed that ye 
receive them and ye shall have them. What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye 
receive them, and ye shall have them. If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what 
ye will, and it shall be done unto you. In my life, I have found those sayings as true as the north star, so 
far as I have proved myself true to  them. That is why I can say to the 
person who is sick, ailing or discouraged. You have the power within 
yourself to gain back your health, strength and hope. The power is 
yours to command. You have only to use it. Then, I say, "Choose you whom you will serve." Take the high 
road of life. Resolve from this day forward to live above sickness and 
sin. For whatever your trouble may be, it is, when you come down to 
it, of your own making. So must you cast off your disease-building habits, particularly 
habits of thought which are more potent than you perhaps realize. Seek the reason why you are sick, weak and sore-trouble. When you 
have found the cause of your ills, the remedy will suggest itself. After 
dragging your trouble out into the open and taken a look at it 
objectively you have won more than  half the battle. The reason why so 
many people are continually sick, or enjoying poor health (as they 
actually seem to do), is they do not have the least idea why they are 
sick. The habitual drinker does not know why he craves alcohol, nor 
does the rheumatic know why he su ffers those twinges and pains. If 
they were born again in the sens e that Jesus taught, both could see 
what was wrong—and once having seen would be started on the road 
to mastery over their infirmities. That is to say, those ailing persons 
would get a right attitude toward life. When you are born again you 
become as teachable as a child. When Jesus expounded that truth to 
his listeners they were puzzled. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of 
God." "How can a man be born when he is old?" asked Nicodemus, 
ruler of the Jews. Then Jesus answered him: 
"Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter 
into the kingdom of God." "How can these things be?" answered the still skeptical 
Nicodemus, but he showed later that he could grasp the idea. He 
became Jesus' advocate before the chief priests. In my 80s, I am vigorous and alert by virtue of having been born 
again. I can seek the truth with an open mind. I can learn sane living 
habits by practicing them. Any person who tries can do the same, but 
first he must get out of his rut. He must be born again. To be born again is to see ones troubles and discard them by 
living a life in harmony with natural law. Since man appeared upon 
the earth, barring natural resources whatever has appeared man, we the people, created it. A ll our wars, debts, worn out soil, diseases and 
what have you we create them. To be born again simply means to reverse every line of thinking 
and habit—discard every disease creating food—disease can appear 
only through the food that is consumed. When the food is correct, 
health will be correct. Disease never needs treatment —remove the 
cause the disease disappears. We must be born again before we can 
reverse our vicious living habits. The Kingdom of God is any place where natural law is obeyed. To be born again is to see the truth and obey it—live it, then disease 
cannot appear. CHAPTER 39. PILGRIMAGE TO THE FIFTH KINGDOM 
 If there were such a thing as a study club or other group devoted 
to research concerning the "Fifth Ki ngdom," the spiritual  side of man's 
nature, I would like to belong to that group. The research I have in 
mind would inquire into that part of man which contacts, though unawares, the ultimate source of truth. Here I am speaking of the truth 
which would make men free, and, as  Jesus of Nazareth also pledged, 
become a well spring of the more abundant life. Most study clubs and like societies now-a-days, devote their 
thought and effort mainly to what has already happened. This club I 
have in mind would concentrate on building future history. The study 
of the past is limited to dogma and precedent. Men's minds ought to be 
free to pursue their unrealized possibilities. If it be true that man is 
made in God's image, then those po ssibilities may be called limitless. To be sure, the old school theologians put man in the fourth kingdom, 
above the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom. But there is a Fifth 
Kingdom, concerning which the Hebrew prophets and the Nazarene 
have given us intimations but which only the saints and the mystics 
have attained to. Suppose that all men could enter into that Kingdom, there to 
make their homes and find there a congenial way of life. That 
transformation would imply a revolution such as the world has not yet 
seen. However, practical minded men have the idea that such a 
kingdom would be "out of this world," and therefore impractical. I do 
not believe that at all. It is my conviction that once men had entered 
the Kingdom and had their eyes opened to its larger truth they would 
be at home there. This Fifth Kingdom, as I have sa id, is the realm of the spirit. When a man has entered there, he has become aware of his likeness to, 
his oneness with, the Creator. He has gained a new vision of life and acquired some inkling of latent and heretofore unsuspected powers 
within himself, powers which he can develop as he will. Having come 
into that awareness, the citizen of the Fifth Kingdom can draw upon 
the Universal Mind for sustenance a nd light. I realize well enough that 
to the man in the street what I am writing does not make sense; but all 
who have entered the Fifth Kingdom know that there is indeed such a Higher Source of strength. They have tapped that source to lighten 
their burdens and heal their diseases. They have climbed out of life's 
dark valleys onto the mountainsi de and into the better sunlight. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you," saith the Lord, 
(as quoted in John XV, 7) "ye shall ask what he will and it shall be done unto you. Thus reciprocity works in the Fifth Kingdom. Would it not be a fine thing we re great numbers of men and 
women to resolve to journey together into that Fifth Kingdom. True, 
each would have to go by himself, in one sense, this being an inner 
pilgrimage. For, as Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is within you. Yet 
seeking a common objective, all coul d journey together, in study club 
or group, under a common leader. The kingdom must be in me before 
I manifest it materially, so must the spirit of a fine garden be in me 
before I can create it materially. Let people enough go on that pilgrimage into the Fifth Kingdom, 
and our social order and political economy, both would be made over 
completely. Thus might be laid the solid foundations on which to 
build a just and durable peace among all nations. This peace is not in 
us, therefore, war will continue. The reason we have wars is because it 
is within us. It was Jesus' mission, as he avowed again and again but most 
forcefully in the Sermon on the Mount, to lead men into the Kingdom 
of God. That goal was to be attained first in men's thought and feeling. For as Jesus taught, the Kingdom of God is within yet. Let a sufficient 
number of people achieve awareness of the Kingdom within 
themselves and the new social orde r which it implies will come about 
naturally as the day comes with the rising sun. It was that end Jesus 
taught men to pray: 
"Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven." Let that prayer be answered fully and the people will have their 
solution to the problems which vex them today. When they have 
entered the Fifth Kingdom, men will have found salvation from 
ignorance, poverty and misery—and, salvation from war. John says in Revelations XXI: 
"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them and they shall be his people . . . and God shall wipe away 
all tears from their eyes . . ." There again, it seems to me, is described the Fifth Kingdom 
which was Jesus' goal for the here and now. We have fallen short of 
that goal because our religious teaching has been abstract and 
theoretical only. That has got us no where. I would lik e to belong to a 
movement which would profess, and teach by practice, not by percept 
alone, the tenet, "See ye first the kingdom of God and his 
righteousness . . ." That would be to seek the kingdom in which men dwell with God and He in them. That  is no war, no poverty and no 
disease. What this troubled and bewildered world needs, I say, is a 
movement which would teach people day by day how to live, how to 
be well and happy; teach them the folly and uselessness of sickness; 
the folly and uselessness of unemployment and depression in an age 
when the maximum productive capacity of every man is needed to 
feed the hungry peoples of earth and provide them with creature 
comforts. Such a movement should tell the people why during the 150 
years they have increased their trav el speed from 4 miles to 400 miles 
per hour, they have not progressed at  all in the essential art of living 
together in their world. It would be a joy to belong to an order which would teach those 
things which the world is hungry for—simply by practicing them. It is 
time men learned that their chie f end and aim is not profit or 
dividends. They must set a hi gher goal, the spiritual man. If humanity needs anything, if it is not beyond vasing quite, it 
needs a movement which will teach all men the way to the Fifth 
Kingdom. That will not be easy, seeing that the masses of men are 
plagued with lazy minds, content with being entertained merely. The 
people want to ride, go to the pictur e show, listen to the radio or read 
the comic strip, anything to escape from reality. I say that what men need above all else is contact with reality. It 
is our business and our duty to seek the truth, learn that truth and 
apply it to solving today's problems, to seek and to open up new and 
broader avenues of life which will lead us to the Fifth Kingdom. TRUTH—DECAY OF CIVILIZATION 
There are many queer things in this world. In all our great cities 
there are many fine churches. Millions of church goers to listen to 
discussions of the writings of these scriptures. While at the same time 
the statement of well known writers th at scriptures as evidence to 
prove any thing have long since been outmoded—was a thunderbolt to me. When I think of the time and money which is spent in the church 
world teaching and discussing that which has no value seems 
unbelievable to me, yet when I sit in the calmness of the late hours of the night thinking, I am convinced that what this writer told me is 
correct. Yet in my own mind I am convinced that no greater truth have 
been taught than what I have found in what is known as Bible 
Scriptures, but what church goers teaches or says these Bible 
teachings have no value, and when church interpretation is used, its 
value is destroyed—nothing is proved. Jesus was crucified because he told the truth. Other Bible 
teachers were put to death because they told the truth. At no time in 
the history of man has anyone taught this truth and escaped unharmed; 
that is no one of any note. As I stand on the side line watching the 
manipulations of the powers that be will not play hands off when these 
Bible teachings are attempted to be placed in operation. These teachings of the scriptures apply to our daily life, 
politically, economically, spiritually, physically, mentally and 
otherwise. Jesus, Amos and numbers of others who taught the truth of 
the Bible teaching were executed. These Scriptures teach that what we 
have we must work for it. And that  no one shall plant and another eat. And that no one shall pay rent. People will live on their own vineyards 
and eat the fruit thereof. They sha ll not build and another inhabit. The 
days of my people shall be as the days of trees. Even at the age of one 
hundred they will yet be in their childhood, manhood will last as long 
as trees. These teachers, we study in our Bible taught these above 
mentioned Scriptures—Not limited to economics, but whatever our 
people the race of man, may desire, he shall have. There is no limit to the desires of man, when the law g overning is obeyed he shall have 
what he wants. This noted writer who told me that the Scriptures to prove 
anything had long since been outmoded. This is true, only because the 
Scripture has been misinterpreted bu t in order that it may not interfere 
with out political and economic set up— the profiteering world in other words, high finance. Our Bible teaches there is no li mit to the possibilities of man, 
when the law governing is obeyed. These laws of mathematics are of 
no value when the law we say 2 times 2 is five. Mathematics are no 
more value than Christian economics  when not obeyed, the reason the 
Christian economics—the economics of Jesus are of no value is because they have never been applied. Sure they are outmoded. For 
this reason Jesus Golden Rule is of no value. It is like 100.00 
dollars—no value when not used. Our Christian world and the golden rule of Jesus and all the laws 
and teachings of our Bible are of no value, because they are not used. Naturally, noted writers tell me that my Scriptural quotations are of no value because they have long sinc e been outmoded as evidence to 
prove anything. This is equivalent to saying that our churches and 
their practices and teachings have not any value because they prove 
nothing. Because our members do not practice these teachings. These 
teachings of Jesus are to be compar ed to money stored in a vault—of 
no value because not in use. We may compare our health laws to religious laws or the money 
of a miser, of no value because not used. When the laws of health are 
practiced or obeyed there can be no disease. The diseases which attack 
us have no power when the laws of health are obeyed. The weeds and grass cannot destroy our crops when the soil is properly cared for. Neither will insects attack, when the soil is not impoverished. Neither 
will disease attack when our body  is well fed and not mistreated. The trouble is our people, gradua tes of our best institutions, are 
not informed along the ways of life and living. Our diseases and our 
wars are due to perverted and abused laws which are supposed to 
prevent disharmony and would if obeyed. Our nations citizenship 
accept disease and war because of the absence of knowledge or 
information. We have athletes foot or cancer or ad infinitum because 
we have disobeyed the law governing health or prevention of diseases. Humanity has not yet learned that all power was given us to rule and 
to have dominion. Through my experience as a dentist studying the human mouth, 
why teeth decay, why teeth get loose and fall out without any 
extraction has led me into the cause of disease which destroy life. Whatever may be the disease, we create it. It has no power within itself. Nearly every thing along this line which we have been taught 
during our past is incorrect and a failure. When the natural laws of life and living are complied with, there 
will be no more disease. During my life at the dental chair with my 
observations of nearly half a century of why teeth decay and 
incidentally why any disease, has left no doubt in my mind that it is due to the food we eat. Whether it be decay or the absence of decay—the power behind the throne is the food we eat. This discovery was based on milk from cows fed on natures food 
unchanged from its natural state. During that time of my observations 
if the milk which was used had been pasteurized, Hereford would 
never have carried the slogan "The Town Without a Toothache." Because of the fact that pasteurizing destroys and disorganizes enough 
of the food value of milk to create weak and diseased bodies. Absolutely Hereford is a town without a bad tooth for every child 
who used plenty of milk unpasteurized, not only does this apply to 
Hereford but to all areas where th e food has not been impoverished—
not to milk only but to other foods. Some of our best medical authorities have formed the conclusion 
that the reduction of our infectious diseases is due to the increase in 
the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables which aid in the 
destruction of disease promoting bacteria. This is further evidence of 
my contention that the well person is not subject to disease. I am fully in harmony with Dr. Royal Lee when he says that pasteurized milk is 
dear at any price. The purpose of organic gardening is to restore to the garden soil, 
the elements which have been destroyed. The plant life has the power 
to extract the elements from the earth of which our body is made, when the elements are furnished our body it cannot develop what we call disease. Disease is only a deficiency of these elements. These 
diseases are only God's warnings telli ng us we have failed to keep our 
body supplied with these values. These values cannot keep our bodies supplied when they are not 
in our food. Neither can these values prevent disease when they have 
been refined or changed or heated. When we are supplied with all 
these values we are immune to disease. We have failed to be a 
follower of God. When we failed to keep our bodies immune. We 
cannot maintain this immunity when we supply our body with 
orthodox conventional food when we keep this up we are atheists and 
do not know it. Naturally our diseases are incurable when we continue eating 
foods which are refined or changed from their nature. Disease cannot 
continue when immunizing foods are fed the body. It should be the purpose of garden clubs to see to it that our soils 
are not worn out and that when flowers and foods are grown no 
disease will develop—neither in the plant nor in the person who eats 
the plant. During my later years the greater part has been spent studying 
reading and writing along the line of human behavior. What I have 
observed and written mainly, has been on the behavior of Americans. There has been a craving or desire, at  least, to spend enough time in 
other countries, in order that a comparison could be drawn. It appears from standing on the sideline watching the wheels go 
round that America could not have made a greater failure, even, if this 
had been their major object. This country is comparatively young, yet 
our soil has been exhausted. What life is left in our soil very little of it 
reaches our dinner tables. The report is the best of our young manhood 
50% or near that, more or less, has been rejected as unfit for war duty. The last report printed gave our people as 99% defective. The exhausting of our soil and the refining and heating of our 
food till it is too impoverished to maintain a fighting people for war 
duty. Our fighting must be done without soldiers, unless there is a change in the feed. The entire setup is governed by high finance which points to war as a racket a nd the decay of civilization. This kind of a nation is supported by our so-called followers of 
Jesus who said when we are slapped on one cheek, turn the other also. All through the universe and on through the walks of man there 
are laws to reckon with. The season of each year—winter, spring, 
summer and fall have their laws which we must obey. The laws of 
gravitation and the flying of a plane must be reckoned with. And on 
down through the life of man the laws which we have to contend with 
are flexible but must be obeyed. When we obey these laws there is harmony. The three score and 
ten years which were allotted for man centuries ago from my experience it is not the limit of life when the laws are obeyed. When 
these laws are obeyed life grows more beautiful with the passing of 
the years. Aches, ills, rheumatism, when these laws are obeyed, there 
is no disturbance. We are taught, and truthfully, that what we sow we shall reap, 
but it appears we have never registered this law in our minds. We do 
not yet know that our aches and ills, polio, cancer, heart failure and 
bad colds are of our own creation—the reaping of our sowing. Common reason teaches that whatever is someone or power creates it. Rheumatism cannot develop when the blood stream is clean. When the 
food is correct the blood stream will always be clean. It takes a clean 
healthy blood stream to maintain a happy disposition. Our minds and morals are fed the same as our teeth or kidney. When the brain and nerves are no t well fed, delinquency can not be 
controlled. Neither can what we term disease be prevented when the food is 
deficient. Neither can the food be good when, the soil is impoverished. People who lie in hospitals, worn an d emaciated, if the food had been 
correct they never would have been carried to the hospital. If the food 
served in the hospital is correct the patient will get well and go home. I am not talking at random, these reports have been experienced 
and lived in my own body. When for years I grew weaker till 
everybody expected everyday to hear of my passing. It happened that a sick person asked me to go with her to Dr. Harry Brown's office. While there I asked Harry to look me over. Within a few minutes he 
told me I had a bad colon, and that I may be too near dead to clean the 
colon but if you will change your food and "stay put" you will get 
well. That was 27 years ago. Now I am 84 and the only way that I can 
believe I am any older is to look up a calendar. All things are possible with the law when it is obeyed. When (as a rule) a fellow is ill, it is 
self created. We were placed in th is world to "choose whom we will 
serve." Natural law is God in action. Wh en humanity lives in harmony 
with this law it means the end of disturbances—no more ills. Man was made after all other things were ma de. He was given the power to rule, 
to have dominion, to choose whom or what he may desire. Whether 
good will, hate, health, disease or wars—these, any one of them, may 
be had for the asking or determination to secure them. These have no 
power within themselves—man must operate them. What we have been taught, pr acticed and operated must be 
eliminated. I say this because the results have not been desirable, 
when a thing or method does not work—good sense says discard it—
whether it be political, economical or  food habits. All these have been 
a failure. Only a dummy will stay put when in the way of traffic. Our methods, ideas of life and living have proven a farce. The 
disturbances, aches and ills have disturbed th e traffic. We have 
reached that place in life where it is  difficult to secure food which 
contain the values which promote perfect health. As an example of 
one item, bread is the main item of food values. We have reached that 
place where bread is no longer the "staff of life" but the means of 
creating disease and death, because it is refined. When our popular white bread is used exclusively, it never fails 
to produce death before disease ca n appear. The white man does not 
use white bread exclusively therefore he lingers with disease. Many of 
these diseases become incurable, because the food which produce the 
disease is not discarded. We have now of late years, been told of whole wheat, but is it? Most of it has been contaminated with chemicals to make it whiter and 
fluffy and prevent moulding till it would be better food if left on the 
shelf. The safest way to maintain health and vitality now a days is to 
secure a mill of your own or use your friends mill. There is a way to 
secure wheat which has not been chem icalized, and of late individual 
small mills can be had. Anyone wa nting information will do well to 
contact Lee Engineering Company, Milwaukee, Wis. I have one of 
these mills, and also a cheaper mill. One mill grinds fine—the other 
grinds coarse for cereal where I use every grain I furnish several of my 
friends. Every family should possess their own individual mill. Dealers in 
the community should keep on hand wheat for retail distribution and they will if people who want good  food will co-op with the dealer. The dealer, grocery or what, can ope rate a mill and grind wheat while 
you wait or buy coffee and sugar which is not fit for food. There is a way to have what anyone wants. We are admonished 
to make our choice. Hoping or wishing must be backed by action and 
determination. We crea te our worn out soil, we create our denatured 
and refined foods which results in bad health and disease. We were 
placed here to rule. If we don't want what we have, we should get rid 
of it. I discarded my bad health, you can get rid of yours, if you don't 
know how, there is a way to find out. This boomerang, "The Town Without a Tooth Ache" makes me 
sore. This slogan was inaugurated b ecause I found so little caries, but 
it applies to all diseases. There are no diseases other than what we 
create. The parents when supplying raw milk to these children they 
did not know this milk would prevent caries. When arthritis, polio or 
what have you, develops some one creates it. These disturbances or 
happy occasions of whatever nature someone is the creator, but the bad food or rather useless food is not all the cause, but it did not 
prevent. Most of our foods are to be eliminated because they have no 
immunizing powers. Raw milk is not the only food in the Hereford 
area which would prevent dental caries or prevent any other disease. The reason I discovered this was Dr. C. A. Pierle, Ph. D. gave me the hunch. Raw milk being the only food used the year round, therefore, I gave my attention to milk—heated m ilk being particularly dead milk, 
will not prevent any disease. All good food is supposed to contain plenty of immunizing 
values, but our popular foods today have been refined, adulterated and 
heated till its immunizing powers have been destroyed which opens the gate leading to the cemetery. GENERAL CAPTION: 
On the following pages are photographs of eight representative 
Hereford citizens who have lived here for most of their lives and, as 
the accompanying mouth photographs demonstrate, have lived to 
middle age or older, with perfect sets of teeth. With but one exception, all the persons in the group have been 
heavy milk drinkers from their childhood up. Most of them like 
buttermilk and drink lots of it. All ta ke their milk raw. It is produced 
on mineral-rich Deaf Smith County grass and feedstuff. Practically all these persons regularly eat fresh, home-grown 
vegetables and eat raw vegetables and raw fruit right along. Most of 
them eat meat either sparingly or moderately. Nearly all live on white 
bread from milled flour. Thereby they lose the most valuable body-
building minerals which, the spectograph analysis shows our home-
grown wheat to contain. But to offset that they get the missing 
minerals in raw milk. All of them eat sparingly of sugar, candy and 
other sweets. My theory—which the diet preferences of these people bear out, 
I believe—is that if people would grow  their food in completely fertile 
soil, like Deaf Smith County has, and would eat that food raw, they 
would have no dental decay and little sickness. The reason why milk 
is so effective in preventing tooth decay is that it is taken raw. People 
prefer cooked food because they have trained themselves to like it, not 
because food is better cooked. If th ey set their minds to it, people 
could learn to like most of their food raw. Then they would live longer 
and keep their teeth sound into old age. Hereford, Texas 
September, 1951  TO THE PUBLISHER: 
We, the undersigned, have given our consent to Dr. George W. 
Heard, that our photographs and th e accompanying photographs of our 
mouths, be published in his book. Yours very truly, (Signed) Mrs. Sallie Morris Carter 
(Signed) John Jacobsen 
(Signed) Charles Hodges 
(Signed) Mrs. Margaret D. Young 
(Signed) Lee R. Conklin (Signed) Louie LeGrand 
(Signed) Miles Roberson 
(Signed) Troys Carmichael  
 
 
 
 
 
LEE CONKLIN 
 
Mr. Conklin, 54 years old, has lived in Hereford since he was 9. He consumes about the average amount of meat but lives largely on 
fresh vegetables from the home garden. He likes all kinds of 
vegetables raw—and all kinds of raw fruit. He drinks more than the 
average quantity of milk, both raw sweet and buttermilk. He was a 
heavy milk drinker as a boy. He likes candy but eats it sparingly. He 
does not use a toothbrush. CHARLES HODGES 
 
 
A native of Texas, Mr. Hodges, 78 years old, has lived in 
Hereford for 53 years. He has never been on a diet but has eaten meat 
only moderately. Mostly, he has lived on fresh vegetables out of the 
home garden and he likes all kinds of vegetables raw. Mr. Hodges 
drinks sweet milk regularly in larg e quantities. He likes buttermilk and 
drank a lot of it when young. He has never used a toothbrush or 
dentrifice. MILES ROBERSON 
 
Born in Cleburne, Mr. Roberson has lived in Hereford for 50 of 
his 56 years. He has never been on a diet. He has eaten meat 
moderately; but fresh home-grown vegetables freely, both raw and 
cooked. He drinks plenty of raw sweet milk and buttermilk, too. He 
had all the sweet milk he could drink as a child. Mr. Roberson uses a 
toothbrush once a day but no dentifrice. W. TROYS CARMICHAEL 
 
A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Carmichael, 39 years old has lived in 
Hereford for 26 years. For years,  he has eaten heavily of cooked 
meats, white and corn bread and cooked vegetables. He does not like 
either raw vegetables or milk. That distaste dates from early boyhood. On the other hand, he has no sweet tooth, either: does not care for 
candy, syrup, cake or pie. Notwithstanding his reckless diet, by the book, Mr. Carmichael has enjoyed good health; but as a penalty for his excessive meat-eating he stands to lose his fine teeth from 
pyorrhea. JOHN JACOBSEN 
 
Born in Denmark 79 years ago, Mr. Jacobsen came to Hereford 
48 years ago. He eats meat only sparingly, and avoids sweets and 
refined foods of all kinds. He likes whole wheat bread; eats some 
cornbread with fresh vegetables out of the garden, and eats some raw salad every day. Mostly he drinks milk with his meals. In early youth 
and for years, he drank sweet milk abundantly. Mr. Jacobsen had three 
teeth filled when he was a young man in Denmark. MARGARET D. YOUNG 
 
Born and reared near Gainesville, Mrs. Young, 40, has lived in 
Hereford for 23 years. Her well-bala nced diet—two small helpings of 
meat a day, with plenty of vegetables from the home garden, and occasionally raw carrots, celery and tomatoes, with lots of raw milk accounts for her beautiful set of teeth. Mrs. Young likes buttermilk, 
too. She had plenty of milk to drink as a child. Her husband, a heavy 
meat-eater who drinks no milk has lost his teeth. LOUIE LeGRAND 
 
A native Texan, Mr. LeGrand has lived in Hereford for 47 of his 
50 years. He has never been on a diet but eats meat only two or three 
times a week. For the most part, he subsists on fresh vegetables from 
the home garden and he eats a generous portion in a raw salad every 
day. He consumes lots of raw fruit. He likes buttermilk and drinks heavily of it at his meals. He ea ts little sweet stuff. Mr. LeGrand 
brushes his teeth once a day with a dentrifice. MRS. SALLIE MORRIS CARTER 
 
Born in Texas 83 years ago—on the same day as the author of 
this book—Mrs. Carter has lived in Hereford for 39 years. She has 
enjoyed good health all her life; neve r had a severe spell of sickness 
nor paid any attention to her diet. She had plenty of raw sweet milk as 
a child; but now prefers buttermilk and drinks lots of it. She eats meat 
sparingly; likes corn bread with fresh vegetables, raw and cooked, out 
of the home garden. She eats very little sweets. Mrs. Carter never has 
used a toothbrush. DR. HEARD'S PHILOSOPHY 
 
The popular foods served today are disease creating. The diseases which attack us are of our own creation. Man has the power of choice. Whatever he has, he has chosen. Any town can be a town without a toothache if the people choose  
it. The business of man is to rule and to choose. Whatever is with us 
we have chosen—"Believe it or not".
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        As it happened, mine has been a lone quest. As I see it, the pilgrim has attain ed his perfect day when he has 
gained health of body, mind and soul, when he possesses an 
abundance of life's good things and dwell in harmony with his 
environment. So far as my contact with it has gone, the church has never set 
such a goal for its members. Rather the church has adjured poverty in 
the here and now, to fit oneself fo r the more abundant life hereafter 
but as the tree falleth so it lieth. As I read it, such is not the implication of the Sermon on the 
Mount, which holds the sum and substance of Jesus' message: "Lay 
not up for yourselves treasure upon earth. " That tenet, if obeyed, would eliminate the love of money, which 
Paul taught was the root of all ev il. Eliminate evil and you eliminate 
the causes of sickness, sorrow and death. In all my 75 years of church going I have never heard this doctrine expounded from the pulpit. But 
I read Amos' prophecy and find the identical teaching: "See good and 
not evil, that he may live". and never ill and in want. My own profession, dentistry, and medicine also, it seems to me, 
fail in the same way. Neither can se e the underlying causes of human 
ills for the symptoms. Consequently, the three leading professions 
dedicated to the service of mankind, the clergy, dentistry and 
medicine, do not teach or practice the way of life. That teaching is all 
in the Bible, but our preachers do not master it. Seemingly they are content to quote stray passages of scripture taken out of its content to support their own ideas of what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely or of 
good report. As it seems to me, both dentistry and medicine are rather 
disposed to disown any member of their respective professions who 
would dare teach the true way of life, which would prevent most of 
the disease, poverty and misery which afflict mankind today. The churches teach that the Devil is responsible for all the 
wrongs abroad in the world today—but I say that man himself is 
responsible for those evils. He has wandered far from the good way 
that the law and the prophets and the Nazarene laid out for him. Today he is lost in a bog, confused and bewildered, groping for a path back to the King's highway. That has come to pass, I believe, because men, instead of 
thinking upon things of good report, as Paul advised in his letter to the 
Phillippians, have thought upon disease, loss, poverty, depression and war. Fearing those evils, man has brought them upon himself. Disease 
is man-made. Poverty is man-made. Depressions and wars are man-
made. As I have said before, and I repeat, the 20-odd years since my 
60th birthday have been the best years of my life. It was not until I 
began fasting or perhaps eating lightly of fruits or vegetables or juices, to correct bodily conditions which ha d threatened my life that ideas 
and visions of that good way of life came flooding my being. Thus for 
the first time I had achieved spiritual heights to get some inkling of the 
meaning of life, to taste the satisfactions which the good way might 
hold for me. I have since striven to continue in that way. Dreamlike 
thoughts and visions pour in on me and open up vistas never glimpsed during my younger years. It follows that the widely held notion that at 60 a man is too old 
to work at his job, full of pains and inefficient, and ought to retire, is 
far removed from my experience. Had I continued to feed my appetite, 
as I had done in youth and middle lif e, then I would have been ready 
to go on the shelf at 60. What happens to a man after 60. I have concluded, depends on 
the man himself. He must decide what master he will serve, whether 
he will yield to his physical appetites that will drag him down or will 
resolutely choose and pursue the good way of life, that promises him 
good health, efficiency and durable satisfactions long past his three 
score years and ten. CHAPTER 37. SIGNALS ON LIFE'S HIGHWAY 
 As a foresighted motorist, the reader would not think of starting 
out on a cross-country tour without a supply of up-to-date road maps. Life is a journey too, but we pass over the route only once. For that 
reason it is much more important that we study life's maps, chart the way we mean to follow and learn what we can concerning what is to 
be expected along the road. The better we know ourselves, the better 
we understand the rules of the road (which are nature's laws), the more 
we shall reap from the journey in health and happiness and in beauty 
seen by the way. On this life journey, we have to obey two sets of traffic rules, 
natural law and man-made law. For every moment of our lives we are 
subject to that dual authority. The rewards which we earn and the 
penalties which we incur depend upo n how well we learn and keep the 
law. The reader knows well enough which is the more important. He 
can sometimes break a man-made law, exceed the speed limit or cut a 
corner and get away with it. By contrast, experience has taught him 
that nature never overlooks a mistake. There are no suspended sentences, paroles and pardons in nature's court. Man-made customs, 
conventions and standards of value are constantly changing. Each 
generation sets up its own. If we wish to be happy on the west side of 
this rise (in life's journey), we must not stake our all on man-made 
values. These will one day become ou t of date and be discarded. New 
standards will be substituted to fit the new time. Not so with natural 
law, God's law, that is changeless and eternal. It  is therefore important 
that the traveler on Life's Road le arn Nature's Laws and learn that he 
must obey those laws if he is to find the going smooth. Particularly when the young man starts out from the parental 
home to make his own way, he needs a map to guide him. It is essential first of all that he know himself; but he should also know the natural and man-made laws with whic h he has to deal. It will help to 
inform him that the roadside is we ll strewn with signs and signals for 
who can read. No lesson that a young man can learn is more important 
than learning to look for, recognize and read aright the signals on life's 
highway. As a practicing dentist, after I had once learned how food makes 
the man, I could look at signs in my patient's mouth and tell him the 
type of food he lived upon, whether he had a "sweet tooth" and ate 
heavily of white bread, syrup, cakes and pies, or that he had a strong 
appetite for beef, gravy and pork ch ops, or, again if he consumed 
enough salads and drank enough pure raw milk. Common sense teaches me that th ose signs are not confined to 
the mouth. If a person's diet is not properly balanced, or if he has 
sinned against his body by too much or too little exercise, too little 
sleep or excesses of any kind, there will be warning signs that nature 
has put out. It may be a pimple, a fever sore, a stiff joint, a pain in the 
chest, a cough or shortness of breath. Whatever the sign, it is 
important that the person, or his family physician or other trained 
observer, read it, interpret it and see that the ill to which it points is 
corrected. There is an old saying: "Be sure your sins will find you 
out. " That principle applies forcefully to sins against the body. Eat the 
wrong foods, eat too much, overwork or mistreat the body in any way 
and there will be warning signs. Happy the man who heeds them. Above all others, the mother should  be well drilled in reading those 
bodily signs and signals and should know what to do whenever the 
symptoms appear. Suppose the law let a man set himself up in an 
office to practice dentistry, to re pair decayed teeth, pull teeth and 
make new sets without training for the job. Well, when she undertakes 
to rear a child, the mother starts on a more complicated job than running a dental office. Along our principal highways, enterprising State engineers have 
installed ingenious signs which instan tly warn the driver of a curve to 
the right or left, a winding stretch, a crossing, a dip or other bad spots 
ahead. Now, a kind nature provides even more warning signs, even 
flashing lights that cannot be missed, along life's highway. To disregard those signs is to invite tr ouble, even to risk fatal disease. Nature's signals tell us what we ourselves are creating. For most 
diseases, like most highway wrecks, are man-made. Quicker than most sins against one's body, wrong eating habits exact their penalties. Eating the right food in the right quantity, but in sufficient variety to give zest to the appetite, is mightil y important because food keeps the 
body in repair, keeps the life processes going. Take a gentle white rat, a cat or any pet and feed it on the sort of 
diet that many parents feed their children, too heavy on white bread 
and sweets, too light on raw vegetables and milk, and the pet will soon 
become nervous and vicious. That is why I say that the way to prevent, or cure, juvenile delinquency is to see that all the children, including the under-privileged, get the food which they require for 
healthy bodies. Build sound bodies and you build steady nerves, clear 
brains and good morals. There are persons who have learned somehow in their youth to 
read and heed the signs and signals along life's road. As a result, each has lived long without aches and pains. Each has gained added 
wisdom with experience and so has found the world growing more 
beautiful and life more enjoyable as the years pass by. When I try to tell people about diet or the care of their bodies 
otherwise, some protest: "If I can't enjoy the things I like I had as well 
die. " Now, I'd like to send the person who gives me an answer like 
that to consult one of those sages who has found the secret of the good 
and happy life. Then he might re alize how a perverted taste has 
betrayed him with a counterfeit happ iness. It is easy to cultivate an 
appetite for natural foods and to cultivate health habits which not only 
build sound bodies but nourish right thinking and the moral nature. CHAPTER 38. BORN AGAIN I EXPERIENCE A NEW LIFE 
 Only recently a group of my fellow townsmen, on a Hereford 
street corner, were talking about my  seemingly inexhaustible fund of 
health and vitality. One old friend of mine recalled that he had seen 
me when I was so weak that had I ventured just one more step it would have been my last. That incident in May, 1925, marked a 
turning point in my life. It was on that May morning I began to 
experience a rebirth. Then, in my 57th year, having seen a great light that revealed to 
me the double sources of my almost fatal sickness, bad eating and bad 
thinking, I began the upward climb which, except for a few stumbles, I 
have maintained since. Day by day I can think of myself as getting 
better and better. I am continually getting new ideas as to ways of 
living—ideas that seem to pop up in my head out of nowhere—and 
nothing will satisfy me but to put those ideas down on paper and, so 
far as practicable, try them out in my daily life. It appears to me, therefore, that I have robust health in my 80s, 
when I'm due to be old and feeble because I have continually revised 
my way of living. My secret, I'd say,  is to eat natural, unrefined, life-
giving foods and, the while, to think life-giving thoughts. I know well 
enough that my bodily machine, given the right materials to work 
within, can keep itself in repair. One day I ran across a carpenter at work and gave him a puzzle 
to solve: 
"What is the difference between a man and a building. " When he gave up, without even venturing a guess at the answer, I 
explained that a building cannot repair itself. It has no life and no power to think. Man, a living organism, as a general rule, can effect 
his own repairs. If he believes in himself and obeys Nature's laws, he 
will have but infrequent occasion to  call in the repair man (doctor). Nature will do the job for him. The trouble is too many people are set in their ways. By force of 
habit, they go through the same old round day after day. They get up 
at the same hour, ask for and get the same old breakfast, do the same 
routine work. Whatever they eat is cooked up in the same way, as on 
the day before. When lunch time and supper time come the process is repeated. Consequently, there is too much sameness in the diet. When it is subjected to, I should say punished by, that sort of 
routine, the body does not get all the elements which it needs for 
essential repairs and does not get the elements in the right proportion. Maybe the body comes up short of protein, calcium or phosphorus; 
but it is more apt to be found short on iron, magnesium, boron, iodine 
or some other 'trace element. ' It is probably short also on the vitamins 
that keep life processes running smoothly because most persons 
subsist largely on white bread, potatoes, cakes, pies and meat. The 
typical diet is too heavy in sugar, starch, fats and oils. It is no wonder, under those circumstances that the bodily 
machinery gets out of kilter and th e person is plagued with aches and 
pains. More often than otherwise when he goes to the doctor that 
person gets medicine to soothe his pain but nothing more. He is not told that he must revise the family eating and other living habits which 
made him sick in the first place. For that reason, I say that, to do the 
job which they are supposed to do, both medicine and dentistry must 
get a new viewpoint. They must center their attention on finding and 
removing the causes of sickness or tooth decay, and not on relieving 
symptoms or repairing damage. If people must be slaves to habit—whether in eating, working for 
a living or amusing themselves, it seems to me, they at least might 
take pains to see that those habits  are constructive, not destructive. They should learn enough about diet; that is, about what elements the 
body and what foodstuffs will supply those elements, to pick out a 
well-balanced, health-giving menu a nd then make that habitual. Next, 
they should vary the day's work with healthful recreation. To sum up, people ought to cultivate health-building, not tearing-down habits. Why should a man be a slave to routine at all. Why should he not 
begin each new day highly resolved to be master of his little world, 
not a slave wearing a ball and chain. I think I know the reason why: Routine requires no effort of the mind. One can just drift through the day, do what is required half au tomatically and get by with it. By 
contrast, thinking is hard work. So me philosopher truthfully has said 
that "Nothing is so disturbing as a new thought. " Yet, to me, nothing 
is more thrilling and rejuvenating than a new idea. Since I had my 
rebirth visions of new ways of lif e are coming to me continually. A 
flood of thoughts will pour upon me as I lie awake by night until I feel 
compelled to get up, turn on my lig hts and write down what has come 
to me. Even so during my years of health and constantly renewed life, 
I have contrived to keep certain key thoughts always before me. In 
particular, these verses from the Gospel have been my mainstay and 
guide: 
What things so ever ye desire, in my name, believed that ye 
receive them and ye shall have them. What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye 
receive them, and ye shall have them. If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what 
ye will, and it shall be done unto you. In my life, I have found those sayings as true as the north star, so 
far as I have proved myself true to  them. That is why I can say to the 
person who is sick, ailing or discouraged. You have the power within 
yourself to gain back your health, strength and hope. The power is 
yours to command. You have only to use it. Then, I say, "Choose you whom you will serve. " Take the high 
road of life. Resolve from this day forward to live above sickness and 
sin. For whatever your trouble may be, it is, when you come down to 
it, of your own making. So must you cast off your disease-building habits, particularly 
habits of thought which are more potent than you perhaps realize. Seek the reason why you are sick, weak and sore-trouble. When you 
have found the cause of your ills, the remedy will suggest itself. After 
dragging your trouble out into the open and taken a look at it 
objectively you have won more than  half the battle. The reason why so 
many people are continually sick, or enjoying poor health (as they 
actually seem to do), is they do not have the least idea why they are 
sick. The habitual drinker does not know why he craves alcohol, nor 
does the rheumatic know why he su ffers those twinges and pains. If 
they were born again in the sens e that Jesus taught, both could see 
what was wrong—and once having seen would be started on the road 
to mastery over their infirmities. That is to say, those ailing persons 
would get a right attitude toward life. When you are born again you 
become as teachable as a child. When Jesus expounded that truth to 
his listeners they were puzzled. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of 
God. " "How can a man be born when he is old. " asked Nicodemus, 
ruler of the Jews. Then Jesus answered him: 
"Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter 
into the kingdom of God. " "How can these things be. " answered the still skeptical 
Nicodemus, but he showed later that he could grasp the idea. He 
became Jesus' advocate before the chief priests. In my 80s, I am vigorous and alert by virtue of having been born 
again. I can seek the truth with an open mind. I can learn sane living 
habits by practicing them. Any person who tries can do the same, but 
first he must get out of his rut. He must be born again. To be born again is to see ones troubles and discard them by 
living a life in harmony with natural law. Since man appeared upon 
the earth, barring natural resources whatever has appeared man, we the people, created it. A ll our wars, debts, worn out soil, diseases and 
what have you we create them. To be born again simply means to reverse every line of thinking 
and habit—discard every disease creating food—disease can appear 
only through the food that is consumed. When the food is correct, 
health will be correct. Disease never needs treatment —remove the 
cause the disease disappears. We must be born again before we can 
reverse our vicious living habits. The Kingdom of God is any place where natural law is obeyed. To be born again is to see the truth and obey it—live it, then disease 
cannot appear. CHAPTER 39. PILGRIMAGE TO THE FIFTH KINGDOM 
 If there were such a thing as a study club or other group devoted 
to research concerning the "Fifth Ki ngdom," the spiritual  side of man's 
nature, I would like to belong to that group. The research I have in 
mind would inquire into that part of man which contacts, though unawares, the ultimate source of truth. Here I am speaking of the truth 
which would make men free, and, as  Jesus of Nazareth also pledged, 
become a well spring of the more abundant life. Most study clubs and like societies now-a-days, devote their 
thought and effort mainly to what has already happened. This club I 
have in mind would concentrate on building future history. The study 
of the past is limited to dogma and precedent. Men's minds ought to be 
free to pursue their unrealized possibilities. If it be true that man is 
made in God's image, then those po ssibilities may be called limitless. To be sure, the old school theologians put man in the fourth kingdom, 
above the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom. But there is a Fifth 
Kingdom, concerning which the Hebrew prophets and the Nazarene 
have given us intimations but which only the saints and the mystics 
have attained to. Suppose that all men could enter into that Kingdom, there to 
make their homes and find there a congenial way of life. That 
transformation would imply a revolution such as the world has not yet 
seen. However, practical minded men have the idea that such a 
kingdom would be "out of this world," and therefore impractical. I do 
not believe that at all. It is my conviction that once men had entered 
the Kingdom and had their eyes opened to its larger truth they would 
be at home there. This Fifth Kingdom, as I have sa id, is the realm of the spirit. When a man has entered there, he has become aware of his likeness to, 
his oneness with, the Creator. He has gained a new vision of life and acquired some inkling of latent and heretofore unsuspected powers 
within himself, powers which he can develop as he will. Having come 
into that awareness, the citizen of the Fifth Kingdom can draw upon 
the Universal Mind for sustenance a nd light. I realize well enough that 
to the man in the street what I am writing does not make sense; but all 
who have entered the Fifth Kingdom know that there is indeed such a Higher Source of strength. They have tapped that source to lighten 
their burdens and heal their diseases. They have climbed out of life's 
dark valleys onto the mountainsi de and into the better sunlight. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you," saith the Lord, 
(as quoted in John XV, 7) "ye shall ask what he will and it shall be done unto you. Thus reciprocity works in the Fifth Kingdom. Would it not be a fine thing we re great numbers of men and 
women to resolve to journey together into that Fifth Kingdom. True, 
each would have to go by himself, in one sense, this being an inner 
pilgrimage. For, as Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is within you. Yet 
seeking a common objective, all coul d journey together, in study club 
or group, under a common leader. The kingdom must be in me before 
I manifest it materially, so must the spirit of a fine garden be in me 
before I can create it materially. Let people enough go on that pilgrimage into the Fifth Kingdom, 
and our social order and political economy, both would be made over 
completely. Thus might be laid the solid foundations on which to 
build a just and durable peace among all nations. This peace is not in 
us, therefore, war will continue. The reason we have wars is because it 
is within us. It was Jesus' mission, as he avowed again and again but most 
forcefully in the Sermon on the Mount, to lead men into the Kingdom 
of God. That goal was to be attained first in men's thought and feeling. For as Jesus taught, the Kingdom of God is within yet. Let a sufficient 
number of people achieve awareness of the Kingdom within 
themselves and the new social orde r which it implies will come about 
naturally as the day comes with the rising sun. It was that end Jesus 
taught men to pray: 
"Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven. " Let that prayer be answered fully and the people will have their 
solution to the problems which vex them today. When they have 
entered the Fifth Kingdom, men will have found salvation from 
ignorance, poverty and misery—and, salvation from war. John says in Revelations XXI: 
"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them and they shall be his people. and God shall wipe away 
all tears from their eyes. " There again, it seems to me, is described the Fifth Kingdom 
which was Jesus' goal for the here and now. We have fallen short of 
that goal because our religious teaching has been abstract and 
theoretical only. That has got us no where. I would lik e to belong to a 
movement which would profess, and teach by practice, not by percept 
alone, the tenet, "See ye first the kingdom of God and his 
righteousness. " That would be to seek the kingdom in which men dwell with God and He in them. That  is no war, no poverty and no 
disease. What this troubled and bewildered world needs, I say, is a 
movement which would teach people day by day how to live, how to 
be well and happy; teach them the folly and uselessness of sickness; 
the folly and uselessness of unemployment and depression in an age 
when the maximum productive capacity of every man is needed to 
feed the hungry peoples of earth and provide them with creature 
comforts. Such a movement should tell the people why during the 150 
years they have increased their trav el speed from 4 miles to 400 miles 
per hour, they have not progressed at  all in the essential art of living 
together in their world. It would be a joy to belong to an order which would teach those 
things which the world is hungry for—simply by practicing them. It is 
time men learned that their chie f end and aim is not profit or 
dividends. They must set a hi gher goal, the spiritual man. If humanity needs anything, if it is not beyond vasing quite, it 
needs a movement which will teach all men the way to the Fifth 
Kingdom. That will not be easy, seeing that the masses of men are 
plagued with lazy minds, content with being entertained merely. The 
people want to ride, go to the pictur e show, listen to the radio or read 
the comic strip, anything to escape from reality. I say that what men need above all else is contact with reality. It 
is our business and our duty to seek the truth, learn that truth and 
apply it to solving today's problems, to seek and to open up new and 
broader avenues of life which will lead us to the Fifth Kingdom. TRUTH—DECAY OF CIVILIZATION 
There are many queer things in this world. In all our great cities 
there are many fine churches. Millions of church goers to listen to 
discussions of the writings of these scriptures. While at the same time 
the statement of well known writers th at scriptures as evidence to 
prove any thing have long since been outmoded—was a thunderbolt to me. When I think of the time and money which is spent in the church 
world teaching and discussing that which has no value seems 
unbelievable to me, yet when I sit in the calmness of the late hours of the night thinking, I am convinced that what this writer told me is 
correct. Yet in my own mind I am convinced that no greater truth have 
been taught than what I have found in what is known as Bible 
Scriptures, but what church goers teaches or says these Bible 
teachings have no value, and when church interpretation is used, its 
value is destroyed—nothing is proved. Jesus was crucified because he told the truth. Other Bible 
teachers were put to death because they told the truth. At no time in 
the history of man has anyone taught this truth and escaped unharmed; 
that is no one of any note. As I stand on the side line watching the 
manipulations of the powers that be will not play hands off when these 
Bible teachings are attempted to be placed in operation. These teachings of the scriptures apply to our daily life, 
politically, economically, spiritually, physically, mentally and 
otherwise. Jesus, Amos and numbers of others who taught the truth of 
the Bible teaching were executed. These Scriptures teach that what we 
have we must work for it. And that  no one shall plant and another eat. And that no one shall pay rent. People will live on their own vineyards 
and eat the fruit thereof. They sha ll not build and another inhabit. The 
days of my people shall be as the days of trees. Even at the age of one 
hundred they will yet be in their childhood, manhood will last as long 
as trees. These teachers, we study in our Bible taught these above 
mentioned Scriptures—Not limited to economics, but whatever our 
people the race of man, may desire, he shall have. There is no limit to the desires of man, when the law g overning is obeyed he shall have 
what he wants. This noted writer who told me that the Scriptures to prove 
anything had long since been outmoded. This is true, only because the 
Scripture has been misinterpreted bu t in order that it may not interfere 
with out political and economic set up— the profiteering world in other words, high finance. Our Bible teaches there is no li mit to the possibilities of man, 
when the law governing is obeyed. These laws of mathematics are of 
no value when the law we say 2 times 2 is five. Mathematics are no 
more value than Christian economics  when not obeyed, the reason the 
Christian economics—the economics of Jesus are of no value is because they have never been applied. Sure they are outmoded. For 
this reason Jesus Golden Rule is of no value. It is like 100. 00 
dollars—no value when not used. Our Christian world and the golden rule of Jesus and all the laws 
and teachings of our Bible are of no value, because they are not used. Naturally, noted writers tell me that my Scriptural quotations are of no value because they have long sinc e been outmoded as evidence to 
prove anything. This is equivalent to saying that our churches and 
their practices and teachings have not any value because they prove 
nothing. Because our members do not practice these teachings. These 
teachings of Jesus are to be compar ed to money stored in a vault—of 
no value because not in use. We may compare our health laws to religious laws or the money 
of a miser, of no value because not used. When the laws of health are 
practiced or obeyed there can be no disease. The diseases which attack 
us have no power when the laws of health are obeyed. The weeds and grass cannot destroy our crops when the soil is properly cared for. Neither will insects attack, when the soil is not impoverished. Neither 
will disease attack when our body  is well fed and not mistreated. The trouble is our people, gradua tes of our best institutions, are 
not informed along the ways of life and living. Our diseases and our 
wars are due to perverted and abused laws which are supposed to 
prevent disharmony and would if obeyed. Our nations citizenship 
accept disease and war because of the absence of knowledge or 
information. We have athletes foot or cancer or ad infinitum because 
we have disobeyed the law governing health or prevention of diseases. Humanity has not yet learned that all power was given us to rule and 
to have dominion. Through my experience as a dentist studying the human mouth, 
why teeth decay, why teeth get loose and fall out without any 
extraction has led me into the cause of disease which destroy life. Whatever may be the disease, we create it. It has no power within itself. Nearly every thing along this line which we have been taught 
during our past is incorrect and a failure. When the natural laws of life and living are complied with, there 
will be no more disease. During my life at the dental chair with my 
observations of nearly half a century of why teeth decay and 
incidentally why any disease, has left no doubt in my mind that it is due to the food we eat. Whether it be decay or the absence of decay—the power behind the throne is the food we eat. This discovery was based on milk from cows fed on natures food 
unchanged from its natural state. During that time of my observations 
if the milk which was used had been pasteurized, Hereford would 
never have carried the slogan "The Town Without a Toothache. " Because of the fact that pasteurizing destroys and disorganizes enough 
of the food value of milk to create weak and diseased bodies. Absolutely Hereford is a town without a bad tooth for every child 
who used plenty of milk unpasteurized, not only does this apply to 
Hereford but to all areas where th e food has not been impoverished—
not to milk only but to other foods. Some of our best medical authorities have formed the conclusion 
that the reduction of our infectious diseases is due to the increase in 
the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables which aid in the 
destruction of disease promoting bacteria. This is further evidence of 
my contention that the well person is not subject to disease. I am fully in harmony with Dr. Royal Lee when he says that pasteurized milk is 
dear at any price. The purpose of organic gardening is to restore to the garden soil, 
the elements which have been destroyed. The plant life has the power 
to extract the elements from the earth of which our body is made, when the elements are furnished our body it cannot develop what we call disease. Disease is only a deficiency of these elements. These 
diseases are only God's warnings telli ng us we have failed to keep our 
body supplied with these values. These values cannot keep our bodies supplied when they are not 
in our food. Neither can these values prevent disease when they have 
been refined or changed or heated. When we are supplied with all 
these values we are immune to disease. We have failed to be a 
follower of God. When we failed to keep our bodies immune. We 
cannot maintain this immunity when we supply our body with 
orthodox conventional food when we keep this up we are atheists and 
do not know it. Naturally our diseases are incurable when we continue eating 
foods which are refined or changed from their nature. Disease cannot 
continue when immunizing foods are fed the body. It should be the purpose of garden clubs to see to it that our soils 
are not worn out and that when flowers and foods are grown no 
disease will develop—neither in the plant nor in the person who eats 
the plant. During my later years the greater part has been spent studying 
reading and writing along the line of human behavior. What I have 
observed and written mainly, has been on the behavior of Americans. There has been a craving or desire, at  least, to spend enough time in 
other countries, in order that a comparison could be drawn. It appears from standing on the sideline watching the wheels go 
round that America could not have made a greater failure, even, if this 
had been their major object. This country is comparatively young, yet 
our soil has been exhausted. What life is left in our soil very little of it 
reaches our dinner tables. The report is the best of our young manhood 
50% or near that, more or less, has been rejected as unfit for war duty. The last report printed gave our people as 99% defective. The exhausting of our soil and the refining and heating of our 
food till it is too impoverished to maintain a fighting people for war 
duty. Our fighting must be done without soldiers, unless there is a change in the feed. The entire setup is governed by high finance which points to war as a racket a nd the decay of civilization. This kind of a nation is supported by our so-called followers of 
Jesus who said when we are slapped on one cheek, turn the other also. All through the universe and on through the walks of man there 
are laws to reckon with. The season of each year—winter, spring, 
summer and fall have their laws which we must obey. The laws of 
gravitation and the flying of a plane must be reckoned with. And on 
down through the life of man the laws which we have to contend with 
are flexible but must be obeyed. When we obey these laws there is harmony. The three score and 
ten years which were allotted for man centuries ago from my experience it is not the limit of life when the laws are obeyed. When 
these laws are obeyed life grows more beautiful with the passing of 
the years. Aches, ills, rheumatism, when these laws are obeyed, there 
is no disturbance. We are taught, and truthfully, that what we sow we shall reap, 
but it appears we have never registered this law in our minds. We do 
not yet know that our aches and ills, polio, cancer, heart failure and 
bad colds are of our own creation—the reaping of our sowing. Common reason teaches that whatever is someone or power creates it. Rheumatism cannot develop when the blood stream is clean. When the 
food is correct the blood stream will always be clean. It takes a clean 
healthy blood stream to maintain a happy disposition. Our minds and morals are fed the same as our teeth or kidney. When the brain and nerves are no t well fed, delinquency can not be 
controlled. Neither can what we term disease be prevented when the food is 
deficient. Neither can the food be good when, the soil is impoverished. People who lie in hospitals, worn an d emaciated, if the food had been 
correct they never would have been carried to the hospital. If the food 
served in the hospital is correct the patient will get well and go home. I am not talking at random, these reports have been experienced 
and lived in my own body. When for years I grew weaker till 
everybody expected everyday to hear of my passing. It happened that a sick person asked me to go with her to Dr. Harry Brown's office. While there I asked Harry to look me over. Within a few minutes he 
told me I had a bad colon, and that I may be too near dead to clean the 
colon but if you will change your food and "stay put" you will get 
well. That was 27 years ago. Now I am 84 and the only way that I can 
believe I am any older is to look up a calendar. All things are possible with the law when it is obeyed. When (as a rule) a fellow is ill, it is 
self created. We were placed in th is world to "choose whom we will 
serve. " Natural law is God in action. Wh en humanity lives in harmony 
with this law it means the end of disturbances—no more ills. Man was made after all other things were ma de. He was given the power to rule, 
to have dominion, to choose whom or what he may desire. Whether 
good will, hate, health, disease or wars—these, any one of them, may 
be had for the asking or determination to secure them. These have no 
power within themselves—man must operate them. What we have been taught, pr acticed and operated must be 
eliminated. I say this because the results have not been desirable, 
when a thing or method does not work—good sense says discard it—
whether it be political, economical or  food habits. All these have been 
a failure. Only a dummy will stay put when in the way of traffic. Our methods, ideas of life and living have proven a farce. The 
disturbances, aches and ills have disturbed th e traffic. We have 
reached that place in life where it is  difficult to secure food which 
contain the values which promote perfect health. As an example of 
one item, bread is the main item of food values. We have reached that 
place where bread is no longer the "staff of life" but the means of 
creating disease and death, because it is refined. When our popular white bread is used exclusively, it never fails 
to produce death before disease ca n appear. The white man does not 
use white bread exclusively therefore he lingers with disease. Many of 
these diseases become incurable, because the food which produce the 
disease is not discarded. We have now of late years, been told of whole wheat, but is it. Most of it has been contaminated with chemicals to make it whiter and 
fluffy and prevent moulding till it would be better food if left on the 
shelf. The safest way to maintain health and vitality now a days is to 
secure a mill of your own or use your friends mill. There is a way to 
secure wheat which has not been chem icalized, and of late individual 
small mills can be had. Anyone wa nting information will do well to 
contact Lee Engineering Company, Milwaukee, Wis. I have one of 
these mills, and also a cheaper mill. One mill grinds fine—the other 
grinds coarse for cereal where I use every grain I furnish several of my 
friends. Every family should possess their own individual mill. Dealers in 
the community should keep on hand wheat for retail distribution and they will if people who want good  food will co-op with the dealer. The dealer, grocery or what, can ope rate a mill and grind wheat while 
you wait or buy coffee and sugar which is not fit for food. There is a way to have what anyone wants. We are admonished 
to make our choice. Hoping or wishing must be backed by action and 
determination. We crea te our worn out soil, we create our denatured 
and refined foods which results in bad health and disease. We were 
placed here to rule. If we don't want what we have, we should get rid 
of it. I discarded my bad health, you can get rid of yours, if you don't 
know how, there is a way to find out. This boomerang, "The Town Without a Tooth Ache" makes me 
sore. This slogan was inaugurated b ecause I found so little caries, but 
it applies to all diseases. There are no diseases other than what we 
create. The parents when supplying raw milk to these children they 
did not know this milk would prevent caries. When arthritis, polio or 
what have you, develops some one creates it. These disturbances or 
happy occasions of whatever nature someone is the creator, but the bad food or rather useless food is not all the cause, but it did not 
prevent. Most of our foods are to be eliminated because they have no 
immunizing powers. Raw milk is not the only food in the Hereford 
area which would prevent dental caries or prevent any other disease. The reason I discovered this was Dr. C. A. Pierle, Ph. D. gave me the hunch. Raw milk being the only food used the year round, therefore, I gave my attention to milk—heated m ilk being particularly dead milk, 
will not prevent any disease. All good food is supposed to contain plenty of immunizing 
values, but our popular foods today have been refined, adulterated and 
heated till its immunizing powers have been destroyed which opens the gate leading to the cemetery. GENERAL CAPTION: 
On the following pages are photographs of eight representative 
Hereford citizens who have lived here for most of their lives and, as 
the accompanying mouth photographs demonstrate, have lived to 
middle age or older, with perfect sets of teeth. With but one exception, all the persons in the group have been 
heavy milk drinkers from their childhood up. Most of them like 
buttermilk and drink lots of it. All ta ke their milk raw. It is produced 
on mineral-rich Deaf Smith County grass and feedstuff. Practically all these persons regularly eat fresh, home-grown 
vegetables and eat raw vegetables and raw fruit right along. Most of 
them eat meat either sparingly or moderately. Nearly all live on white 
bread from milled flour. Thereby they lose the most valuable body-
building minerals which, the spectograph analysis shows our home-
grown wheat to contain. But to offset that they get the missing 
minerals in raw milk. All of them eat sparingly of sugar, candy and 
other sweets. My theory—which the diet preferences of these people bear out, 
I believe—is that if people would grow  their food in completely fertile 
soil, like Deaf Smith County has, and would eat that food raw, they 
would have no dental decay and little sickness. The reason why milk 
is so effective in preventing tooth decay is that it is taken raw. People 
prefer cooked food because they have trained themselves to like it, not 
because food is better cooked. If th ey set their minds to it, people 
could learn to like most of their food raw. Then they would live longer 
and keep their teeth sound into old age. Hereford, Texas 
September, 1951  TO THE PUBLISHER: 
We, the undersigned, have given our consent to Dr. George W. Heard, that our photographs and th e accompanying photographs of our 
mouths, be published in his book. Yours very truly, (Signed) Mrs. Sallie Morris Carter 
(Signed) John Jacobsen 
(Signed) Charles Hodges 
(Signed) Mrs. Margaret D. Young 
(Signed) Lee R. Conklin (Signed) Louie LeGrand 
(Signed) Miles Roberson 
(Signed) Troys Carmichael  
 
 
 
 
 
LEE CONKLIN 
 
Mr. Conklin, 54 years old, has lived in Hereford since he was 9. He consumes about the average amount of meat but lives largely on 
fresh vegetables from the home garden. He likes all kinds of 
vegetables raw—and all kinds of raw fruit. He drinks more than the 
average quantity of milk, both raw sweet and buttermilk. He was a 
heavy milk drinker as a boy. He likes candy but eats it sparingly. He 
does not use a toothbrush. CHARLES HODGES 
 
 
A native of Texas, Mr. Hodges, 78 years old, has lived in 
Hereford for 53 years. He has never been on a diet but has eaten meat 
only moderately. Mostly, he has lived on fresh vegetables out of the 
home garden and he likes all kinds of vegetables raw. Mr. Hodges 
drinks sweet milk regularly in larg e quantities. He likes buttermilk and 
drank a lot of it when young. He has never used a toothbrush or 
dentrifice. MILES ROBERSON 
 
Born in Cleburne, Mr. Roberson has lived in Hereford for 50 of 
his 56 years. He has never been on a diet. He has eaten meat 
moderately; but fresh home-grown vegetables freely, both raw and 
cooked. He drinks plenty of raw sweet milk and buttermilk, too. He 
had all the sweet milk he could drink as a child.
The author believes that one should strive to achieve perfect health, harmony with the environment, and a life of abundance, as described in the Bible.
What is the author's goal in life, as described in the passage?
The author believes that disease and poverty are caused by human actions, not by external circumstances. He argues that people are responsible for their own well-being and that they must take control of their own health and well-being.
What does the author think is the main cause of disease and poverty?
The author believes that it is essential to eat natural, unrefined foods and to live in harmony with natural law. He also emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, self-reflection, and personal responsibility in achieving health and longevity.
What does the author think is the key to maintaining health and longevity?
The author is critical of the church and society for not teaching people how to live a healthy and fulfilling life. He believes that the church has failed to provide guidance on how to achieve perfect health and has instead taught people to focus on the afterlife.
What is the author's view on the role of the church and society?
The author is critical of the medical and dental professions for not addressing the root causes of disease and instead only treating symptoms. He believes that people should focus on changing their habits and lifestyles to prevent disease, rather than relying on medication or medical treatment.
What is the author's stance on the role of medicine and dentistry?