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In 1844, Lydia Maria Child, wrote the following poem:

Over the river, and through the wood – to Grandfather’s house we go!
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifting snow.
Over the river, and through the wood – Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes and bites the nose as over the ground we go.
Over the river, and through the wood – and straight through the barnyard gate!
We seem to go extremely slow, it is hard to wait!
Over the river, and through the wood – now Grandmother’s cap I spy!
Hurrah for the fun! The pudding done! Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!

As we begin this article, let me use the above holiday poem as a springboard to reminisce for a while about Christmas’ past, and what I will refer to as “the good ole days”:

My mother was born on March 24, 1911, in Constable, New York, a tiny town on the Canadian border, in upstate New York. Her dad, my grandfather, was born in Vermont on April 15, 1870. Grandpa, a descendent of George Washington, was a blacksmith and a farmer. In the fall season, grandpa made cider in the Ole Cider Mill down by the creek that ran by their house. Their income was derived from the blacksmithing grandpa did for neighbors, the vegetables raised in their organic garden, which he sold by the roadside, and the cider he pressed, made from apples they grew in their orchard, and sold each fall. Grandpa died on Christmas Eve (December 24), 1948.

They had no electricity or running water. Their refrigeration was a cold cellar under the house and the icehouse, filled with ice grandfather cut from the creek, and packed in sawdust each winter. Grandpa had a horse he used for plowing the garden and for pulling the buggy in summer and the sleigh in winter. Grandma and grandpa never had running water in their home; rather they had a well with a hand pump across the road from which they drew drinking water by the bucket full, and carried it to their home fresh each day. For bathing and washing clothes, they collected rainwater in barrels from roof runoff. Their toilet was an outhouse out back of the house. They heated their home with wood that grandpa cut and split during summer and fall seasons, and burned in their two wood stoves in winter – one a potbelly in the living room and the other a wood burning cook stove in the kitchen.

Their life was a very simple one, and yes, you may say that they had it very hard, and that you would not want to go back to that kind of living. But let’s take a moment to evaluate the conditions of the world in which my grandpa and grandma lived, and compare them with world conditions today:

1. They took pride in what they had and in what they had accomplished, because they worked hard for and earned everything they owned. In their day, there were no food stamps, welfare, handouts, government loans or subsidies. They paid for what they bought, or you went without. There were no mortgages, interest payments, or credit card bills. They bartered for or paid cash for everything they purchased. And a man’s handshake was worth more then a dozen signed and notarized legal contracts today.

2. They had no life insurance, health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, or even fire or homeowners insurance. Neither did they have any retirement plan or Social Security. Yet they lived healthfully and happily well into their old age. If a home or barn burned down, neighbors had a house or barn raising, and all got together to build a new one. If they were sick and unable to do the chores, neighbors were there to lend a helping hand.

3. Nor did they go running to the doctor every time someone sneezed, ran a fever, or had a baby. Chicken pox, mumps, and measles were considered normal childhood occurrences that quickly passed, and provided natural immunity. Herbs were used as healing modalities and babies were born at home. Few adults wore glasses, and a child wearing glasses was unheard of.

4. They had no automobiles, televisions, computers, washing machines, dishwashing machines, or even radios until the 1920’s. Before the radio, there was a wind-up victrola with scratchy records to listen to, and they read lots of books, and spent quality time with the family.

5. They went to bed with the chickens and got up with roosters. The family took care of the elderly, but usually, the elderly were well able to take care of themselves. Today, the elderly are shipped off to nursing homes, and mostly shunned by the younger generation.

6. All their food was organically grown, because all they had for fertilizer were the manures from the barnyard animals. There were no chemical sprays, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and the like, and yet they produced crops far superior in taste and nutritient value to most being produced today.

7. They were a God fearing, hard working people, working from dawn to dusk every day but Sunday, but even on Sunday, before they went to church, the chores had to be done! They were not quitters when times were difficult and things weren’t going well. They were self-sufficient, self-disciplined and had honesty and integrity and work ethics, attributes so lacking in today’s society.

8. Today, because so many are not hard working and self-disciplined, and are lacking in honesty, integrity, and work ethics, they have become lazy, television watching, pleasure seeking, couch potatoes, and quitters. Thus they have allowed government to take over the raising and educating of their children from an ever-earlier age. The government takes care of those who don’t want to work and those out of work, and provides income for the elderly who do not plan ahead for their senior years. The government takes care of those who are sick and an ever-increasing percentage of the populace wants the government to provide them with health care from the cradle to the grave.

9. Beware my friend, because every time we allow government to take responsibility for something we should be taking responsibility for ourselves, we yield a little more power to government and lose a little bit more of our freedoms. Socialism is where the government provides for and takes care of the people, rather than the people providing for and taking care of themselves. This slide to socialism began in our country with a big bang when Social Security was instituted by FDR as a part of his New Deal in 1935, and if people are not careful, government will take complete control of the people, and the people will find themselves under communism, with their freedoms gone.

Following are a few definitions taken from Webster’s dictionary:

CAPITALISM – “An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations.

SOCIALISM – “A theory or system of social organization in which the means of production and distribution of goods are owned and controlled collectively or by the government. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.”

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE – “Any of various systems to provide a nation with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health services.”

SOCIAL SECURITY – “Any public program providing for economic security and social welfare.”

COMMUNISM – “1. A theory or system of social organization based on holding all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community or to the state. 2. A political doctrine or movement based on Marxism and developed by Lenin and others, seeking a violent overthrow of capitalism and the creation of a classless society. 3. A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single political party.”

WHAT DOES GOD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ALL THIS?

“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the OLD PATHS, WHERE IS THE GOOD WAY, AND WALK THEREIN, AND YE SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. But they said, We will not walk therein. ALSO I SET WATCHMEN OVER YOU, SAYING, HEARKEN TO THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET. But they said, We will not hearken. THEREFORE HEAR, YE NATIONS, AND KNOW, O CONGREGATION, WHAT IS AMONG THEM. HEAR, O EARTH: BEHOLD, I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THIS PEOPLE, EVEN THE FRUIT OF THEIR THOUGHTS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO MY WORDS, NOR TO MY LAW, BUT REJECTED IT.” (Jeremiah 6:16-19)

As we approach Christmas 2007, just fifty-nine years since my grandpa died on Christmas Eve 1948, having never experiencing even electricity or running water during his entire lifetime, we find our nation is in a mess.

Today, the people of this once great land are almost equally divided between those who want the government to take care of them, and those who are tenaciously trying to hold onto their independence and freedoms and the “old paths” spoken of in Jeremiah 6:16 – a people whose only desire from government is that they be left alone, so that they can in freedom, enjoy life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

The saddest thing of all is that the greater the number of citizens receiving hand-outs and becoming dependent on government, the more inclined are the people who want these hand-outs to vote for those candidates and the party that will promise them the most hand-outs, and promise to take care of them from the cradle to the grave. It is important to note that the current political party that wants to provide the people with ever more hand-outs is the same party that constantly wants to raise taxes to pay for ever more hand-outs, so that ever more people will vote for them, and thus give them ever more power over the people.

Thus the candidates and party that promises to give the citizens the most hand-outs will become the party that will not only obtain power, but be able to maintain power, as the majority of the people slowly yield control of themselves and their family members to this creeping socialism, which is in reality and ultimately communism, and slavery. Thus this hand-out seeking majority takes away the ability of those citizens who want to take care of and provide for themselves, and all are forced into a socialist/communist state.

This reminds me of the frog that was placed on the stove in a pot of cold water. Then the heat was turned on under the pot, and as the temperature rose, the frog did not realize the temperature was rising and that it was in peril, that is, until the water was boiling, and by that time, it was too late to jump out of the pot.

Here is how it happens – Citizens, not wanting to be responsible for themselves and their families, vote for, at the ballot box, legislators who promise to provide for them what they no longer want to provide for themselves. Thus citizens find it easier to let someone else do it for them, rather than taking control of their own lives and families, and providing for their own needs. Because they do not want to take responsibility for themselves, all ultimately are forced into the boiling pot and all become enslaved.

Most of the candidates for president of one major political party today, want to provide not only universal health care, but also governmental control over the people from the cradle to the grave. Just in the past few weeks, we have had a taste of what happens when the people allow government to have limitless power and control. And do not forget how government achieved that power – it was at the ballot box. Every step we have taken toward government control of the people was because the people voted into power liberal legislators, who appointed liberal judges, and they collectively took away the people’s power, and transferred it to government. Following is an example of what I am talking about:

In the state of Maryland, the court recently ordered parents to vaccinate their children with toxic injections, or go to jail: “Nov. 17, Prince George, Maryland State’s Attorney Glenn F. Ivy (D) and the county’s public health and education officials brought the power of the State down on parents who had not gotten their children injected with vaccines for chickenpox and hepatitis B. In a Nov. 13 press release issued by the Prince George’s County Public Schools and at a press conference that day, state officials made it clear they were going to use whatever means they had to use to force the children to get vaccinated. Ivy said he was prepared to throw the parents whose children had not gotten their shots in jail: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it’s got to be done. I’m willing to move forward with legal action.” The parents of children, who have been kicked out of school for failing to get their shots and are subject to state truancy laws, were summoned to the Prince George’s County Courthouse in Upper Marlboro on Saturday, the 17th with their children to get them vaccinated on- site or face fines and jail time.”

The Hallelujah Health Tip
Issue #525: Christmas’ Past - Oh for the Good Ole Days!
December 11, 2007

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