Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-11-24
"eRlIsE THf LORD. "
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and there was delay before the accident
was discovered. When we came home
from church we found three doctors in the
act Of setting the fractured limb. The
operation was horribly painful and the
shrieks Of the poor sufferer we're heart
rending. The splints and bandages on, a
heavy dose Of Morphia administered and
ereunt doctors. The next morning after
the opiste ceased TO deaden the pain, the
torment Of suffering came back. Sister
Nash insisted there was something wrong
in the setting and this led to the calling in
Of a DIR. Sweet, who bears the came rela-
tionship TO the medical profession that do
to the Clerical, being sort Of bushwhack-
er, who has wondrous skill in setting bro
ken limbs. but has no authority from man
10 do it, and is therefore in ill.repute
among those who would rather see thing
ill-done secundum ortum, than we'll done ir.
regularly This man, God-gifted, was
therefore called in. He came, but refused
to touch the case unless wholly given up
~ him. Bro. Nash had the courage to do
this, the regular NJ. De refusing any fur
ther connection with the case, IL DR.. Sweet
was consulted, and thus things were ar
ranged on a new basis. DIR. s. then pre-
pared his splints, reset the limb, and with
no assistance but that rendered by my wife
who was required to hold the foot firmly
in one position. In few moments every
thing was fixed. No bandage used at all
except light one on the foot, the splints
doing the rest The NJ. DE- had painfully
and ughtfully bandsged the leg from ancle
TO above the knee. The resetting was so
skillfully done that sister Nash suffered
very little pain, and in 80 minutes was per-
fectly comfortable aud free from pain and
has been ever since. / write this part Of
my letter Friday night and all goes we'll
She sleeps pleasantly and BEAUTIFULLY,
takes no opiates at all and, in short the
comfort she enjoys, after such fracture is
simply wonderful.
| write all this to introduce the Sweet
family TO your readers, and to speak lit
tie more about the wonderful gilt-God.
given-which will perhaps be a new thing
to them, as it is to us. Stephen Sweet, the
father Of our practitioner was farmer
near Franklin, II miles from Norwich. lie
had Is children; boys and IL girls. The
girls are living, but OF the boys are
dead Stephen himself died three years
ago. A brother OF his, in Lebanon, Conn,
and another in Rhode Island, with their
respective families share the common gift,
which like other hereditary gifts simply
run in the blood" The Sweet iamily's that
OF bone setting. Ii is as distinctly a gift
with them as musi: and sculpture are with
others. All possess it. When little chill
dren they amused themselves with un-
II. -. -
ing the dislocations. The girls are as
skillful as the boys. One or two members
OF the family have made fortunes at the
business, but others are shiftless and dissi- |
pated. One practitioner is unhappily adj !
dicted to drink, but always skillful, drunk |
or sober. He has set as many as IS bones |
in day and 900 in a year. They all
have as much as they wish to do, and moie
at times. The most wonderful stories are
told Of the apparently superhuman inge- |
nuity in managing hopeless cases, turn
ed of by the faculty" and doomed 10 am
putation, but perfectly cured by Sweets
skill. These bone-setters seem almost able |
TO see the bones through the flesh, 80 easi-
ly can they put every thing into its proper
place. None Of them are medically edu-
Gated nor pretend to any thing. They
only know how to set bones either broken
or dislocated. The REGULARS" can't en-
dure them, but they go on doing good, and
the people receive them gladly, in spite OF
"the profession" One would think a true
heart would welcome a fellow-worKer in
the business Of tightening the woes of hu-
manity, but alas Caste regulations are
stronger than humanity and philanthropy.
Don't | know it from experience Well,
The thing is to 60 ON and exercise ones
gifts as best we can and be satisfied with
loing good, il il is irregular.
SATURDAY lSth.-I must finish this let
Ter in scraps, as it is almost settled that we
leave on Monday night, after service for
Waterford, n. Y, place Of 6,000 inhab-
itantA. equidistant from Albany and Troy,
On the Hudson river. This is the only
opening, at present, and We will 20 where
a door Stands ajar," ever trusting the
LORD 10 mske it wide open and eiiectu-
al" / shall be too busy on Monday for
writing, and 80 take time BY the foretop."
Yesterday we had our first snow fall,
asting all day and melting a. it fell. Lead.
IN sky above, cold slush underfoot, sugges-
i've Of diphtheria, pneumonia and CON
DEVILS own weather. No
)ne can persuade me that our dear, good
Lord sends such. 1t Is not like him at all.
L will all vanish when the devil ia shut up
n the abyss" That shows where il comes
rom now. This morning the sun shines
rightly and the air is sharp and bracing.
The dear LORD is doing the best He can K
or us under the circumstances. Praise
lis dear Name. From my window / look A
ut on real Winter scene. The snow fall \ :
4 the night did not all melt and light .
kim Of il covers every thing. The Yer
lont train is tearing round the river curve
-Northward bound. leaving behind il a
rail OF steam clouds, almost as white az
he snowy bluff against which they drift.
he little children are trotting along to '
chOol, muihed and mittened, with shTuR-
ed shoulders and their little toes fairly
armed in with cold, as they run along. l .
m looking at little "tot" in a red hood
nd red stockings, with diminutive tin |
ucket Of lunch in her red -mittened hand.
Ter little nose keeps up the color, for it is |
cry red too. Bless her little heart. The
orses snort out jets Of steamy breath and
iper and prance with winter life. BY the q
ay, the horses here are decidedly good !
hey come from Canada, and Vermont !
liefiy, for roadsters; while Pennsylvania !
finishes the superb draught horses 4
lydesdale and Norman they look alike. 4
rices are fearful to Kentuckian. ask
my friend who was driving me out the
her day what he paid for the rather
Iick stepping 'pluR" he was shaking his
mes over. "$l75P he answered-$75
ould easily have purchased him in Ken
cky. / asked him why the folks didn't r
/ handsomer and cheaper horses from
!. "They are too tender for our climate"
responped. They prefer the tough,