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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



and sympathy of those who love purity of 

 heart and cleanliness of body. I can hardly 

 tell you the feeling of a change I experienced 

 as I came near the church dining-rooms. 

 The quiet, kind welcome they gave me was 

 in itself enough to indicate I was among 

 Christians. The waiters were gentle, pleas- 

 ant, and refined, and I felt at home at once. 

 As I sat down and enjoyed my meal, I felt 

 that it was the love of (!hrist that prompted 

 them to come here, just as the ladies of our 

 church go to our fair-grounds to try to coun- 

 teract the great tide of blasphemy and wick- 

 edness tliat crowds into such places. Just a 

 couple of hours before, I went up to a stand 

 on the ground to see how their five-cent pies 

 compared with those we make at home. In 

 just the few minutes I stood there, I heard 

 more oaths and blasphemy from the lips of 

 the proprietor than I have heard before in a 

 year. It was not the oaths only, but the 

 coarse, low-lived way in which he disputed 

 a bill. I could not but wonder how different 

 his way was, from the quiet way in which 

 we Christian people settle differences. My 

 friend, do you not believe it will be better 

 for you to have your life much among (Chris- 

 tian people? 



Uniting with a church is, some may say, 

 making a parade of our goodness. I would 

 say, it is rather acknowledging to the world 

 that you wish to be a better man, just as 

 one who goes to school acknowledges to the 

 world he wishes to be a better scholar. Our 

 boys have just been discussing the matter of 

 a college education. Why not study at 

 home? Why not, sure enough? It would be 

 a deal cheaper, and self-made men are the 

 best in the world. True; but these self- 

 made men could uot go to school as you can, 

 and so they got their education in spite of 

 the obstacles. Not one boy in a thousand 

 will do this. The boys who say they are 

 going to study at home don't do it. The 

 men who say they are going to be Chris- 

 tians, and do it at home, without having any 

 thing to do with the churches, don't do it, 

 and even if they did, it would be a religion 

 all of self. If you are going to be a child of 

 God, you must go out among men, and 

 stand up among them. As well might one 

 start out to be a patriot, and to love his 

 country, by holding aloof and keeping in the 

 background. Did any of the prophets men- 

 tioned in the J^.ible ever pull his cloak about 

 him and say, '' Here goes a prophet who is 

 going to take care of himself, and go to 

 heaven on his own hook. I have talked to 

 and warned those wicked idolaters just as 

 long as I am going to, and now they may 

 go " y To be sure, not. They talked and 

 warned and protested, and ran after the 

 remnants of the Church until it seemed as if 

 it were words and time wasted, and died 

 pleading with their last breath. Never give 

 up and never let go, is the spirit of all the 

 Bible teachings. Never give the world over 

 to evil, nor let evil men think they have won 

 the day. Whatever wickedness you may 

 encounter in your way, never give up in de- 

 spair, but let God and your fellow-men ever 

 be your motto. AVhen evil seems too much 

 for you, or when Satan persuades you the 

 world is all corrupt, remember God's promise, 



Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred 

 of you shall put ten thousand to flig-ht.— Lev. 26 : 8. 



I am sure, my friends, it is all plain enough 

 to you. I am sure your better self tells you 

 how much true men and women are needed 

 in this work of redeeming a sinful world 

 from the hands of those who would with 

 blasphemy and crime delight in sinking 

 every thing good and pure and holy. Come 

 over and help us ; for the sake of your loved 

 ones growing up, come ; for God's sake, 

 come; don't find fault, and don't object, 

 but rise up in your might, and with Christ's 

 great love in your heart, come. Go this 

 minute and hunt up the pastor of the church 

 of your choice nearest, and cheer and lift 

 him up by telling him you want to help. 

 Tell the superintendent of the Sunday- 

 school the same ; and at night, on bended 

 knee, say, '' Lord, here is my poor unworthy 

 self ; give me my work." 



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¥01IR proposition in Gleanings, to give a smo- 

 ker to every bee keeper who is a slave to the 

 — ■ Uic of tobacco, and who pledges himself to 

 discontinue its use. meets my approbation. Away 

 goes tobacco; and if ever I indulge in the use of the 

 weed again, I pledge myself to forward you immedi- 

 ately the full price of smoker. John M. Sands. 

 Columbia, Tenn., Aug. 23, 1882. 



Please send me a smoker b. mail, and I will never 

 use tobacco again. C. M. Smith. 



Austin's Mills, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1882. 



You may send mc a smoker, as 1 stopped the use 

 of tobacco about two months ago; if I commence, I 

 will pay for it. C. A. Welch. 



Mt. Calm, Limestone C i., Texas, July 39, 1882. 



Bees have done well in this locality where the peo- 

 ple give them any attention, but there are people 

 here who never saw a frame hive; they don't know 

 any thing about bees; but I am trying to stir them 

 up by showing them what can be done with proper 

 Euanagemcnt. I am the only one about here who 

 has ever introduced a queen or made an artificial 

 swarm. So much for the ABC book. I have quit 

 smoking, and want you to send mo a Clark smoker. 

 I don't like to get it that way, but am too poor to 

 buy every thing I need in the bee business; will pay 

 for it if I ever smoke any more. I quit some time 

 ago, and now I don't like the smell of tobacco. 



D. C. Shepherd. 



Kent's Store, Fluvanna Co., Va , Sept. 10, 1882. 



SEVEN hundred MILES FROM A CIGAR. 



It was only a stump, however, destined never to 

 be finished, but thrust into a box with half a paper 

 of "Navy clippings," and the much-used pipe, still 

 warm and reeking; and this took place just before 

 starting on that long journey two weeks ago. I am 

 glad that those implements of an unseemly habit 

 did not travel wiih me, and arc not to follow after. 

 Certainly I shall not hunt them up, and it is incon- 

 ceivable that any one shovild produce them before 

 me and prove their identity, and prevail on ms to 

 begin where I left oflf, and to consume that cigar 

 stump and that tobacco. 1 do not know whether I 

 made any definite resolve to smoke no more and no 



