discovered that her “beans” were peas. I knew that before she wrote me for peas grow from right to left while beans grow from left to right. When we watch the dandelion we find that it will come up 3 inches if the grass is 2 inches high. If the grass is 4 inches high then the dandelion will come up 5 inches. One day a mem ber of my church brought me a dande lion 23 inches high. I asked where might she have gotten such a plant and she said that it came out of her Iris bed. She had measured the Iris plant and it was 22 inches high and the dandelion had grown to 23 inches. You see God gives us the lesson that He wants us to live like that — He wants us to live above our surround ings and troubles. When we consider a stalk of wheat we find that it has 30, 60 or 100 grains on it. The Lord said that Christians are like that in their lives. The wheat stalk only produces 28, 30 or 32 grains when the crop is light. If the crop is good the farmer will find a yield of 58, 60 or 62 grains on a stalk. If he has a bumper crop he will have 98, 100 or 102 grains to the stalk. One day a farmer caught me in his watermelon patch and asked me what I was doing there. I told him I was counting the stripes on his water melons. He said, “Oh, yeah?” Then he asked, “Well, what did you find?” I told him that I found that in count ing the stripes on about 30 melons I had found that each melon had ten stripes and I asked him to count with me. He did and found my count cor rect. He said, “Well, this knocks me over. I have raised melons for 30 years and never thought to count the stripes — I just took it for granted that they would be irregular in number.” Now if God has such perfect har mony in the things of His lower crea tion, think of what He could produce in your life — man His masterpiece of creation — if you would only let Him have your life to direct and govern. 35
it calm down after a while? When you are sitting or walking there are waves from radio stations and other electrical contrivances pene trating your head and your heart—you are saturated with them. In our day and time the air is so filled with carbon monoxide that we find breathing uncomfortable and, in deed, death could come about but for the rain to wash this air of its im purities and the velocity of the wind to carry off the gasses. God governs all this but rarely do we stop to think about His constant and saving provi sions for our daily lives. Q. Dr. Wilson will you be good enough to continue along this line with some of the peculiar habits and uses of plant life? A. I am happy to. Just a few days ago a man asked me, “Why did God make poison ivy?” You know, Dr. Talbot, when I was a boy I recall going on calls with my father who was a country doctor and he and I always carried the extract of poison ivy along with us be cause it was the best known remedy for rheumatism and allied troubles. When you go to your garden in the early spring, you will see a clod of dirt, weighing four or five pounds, be ing pushed up by a tender little bean Plant that has sprouted. Only God can explain this feat of the bean plant. There is power in life. As the plant gets out of the earth it climbs a pole and the bean plant is always left handed in climbing. Ten or twelve years ago I was talking about beans over the radio and a lady from Southern California wrote to me saying that I may know my Bible but that I do not know beans. She said that she had some beans in her back yard and that they were growing up from right to left. I asked if she would send me some of her bean plants. A few weeks later I received a letter from her saying that she was sorry not to enclose some plants but that she had
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