"I have yours of August 20th with the list of persons to whom you
desire to have 'The Living Temple' sent. The books are already sent
together with a little note calling attention to them.
"Your continued courtesies are putting us under obligations which we
can never repay.
"There are a lot of devils of different sorts to be cast out, and I am
sure the dyspeptic devil is about the worst and the meanest of them
all.
"A quartette sang the 'Chewing Song' just before my lecture in the
parlour last evening. The great parlour was filled to its utmost
capacity. The people cheered heartily, not at the singing nor the
song, but the sentiment. I took occasion to tell them I thought Mr.
Horace Fletcher, in inaugurating the chewing reform, had done more to
help suffering humanity than any other man of the present generation,
and that I felt very much mortified that we had neglected this
important matter to such an extent here that you had to come to the
Sanitarium and be a missionary of good health and urge this important
matter upon our attention. I feel that we are all greatly indebted to
you, and seem to be getting continually more and more into your debt,
and I do not know any way to discharge the obligation; but if any
accident should ever happen to you so you get ill, it will certainly
be a delight to us to have the opportunity to minister to you if you
will permit us so to do.
"I am glad you have postponed your visit until October, as by that
time we shall have many things in better working order, and our
medical class will be here. I want to have our medical students meet
you.
"I told Mr. Nichols the other day you were coming to visit us. He was
greatly delighted to hear this. He feels as I do that the work which
you have inaugurated is the most important movement which has been
started in modern times.
"I remain, as ever,
"Fraternally yours,
"J. H. KELLOGG."
"BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Sept. 30, 1903.
"DEAR FRIEND:
"I have your kind note of the 23d inst. I am sure that one of my
letters to you has been lost. I wrote promptly telling you that you
were at liberty to use anything I have written you respecting your
work.
"I am more and more enthusiastic respecting the value of thorough
chewing. I have read with great interest Dr. Harry Campbell's
articles, and am republishing in _Modern Medicine_ a large part of
what he has written.
"I have been thinking whether I might dare ask permission from you to
publish your article 'What Sense' as a tract. Possibly it is already
printed in that way. I would like to circulate it widely among my
patients, and our nurses and doctors. I am doing my best to get them
all to chewing, and have had great benefit myself from thorough
mastication.
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