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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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stand by my side that she might check and 

 reprove me whenever I might be inclined, 

 in my veliement and pushing way, to speak 

 disresjiectfully of any of my fellow-men, no 

 matter where they were born or brought up. 

 This paper says further, "It seems to be 

 the destiny of the United States to lead in 

 the peace movement." May God helji our 

 country to be up and dressed, and ready for 

 the work. This paper further says, " In our 

 history no man has done more to spread the 

 gospel of peace than the two Pennsylva- 

 nians, William Penn and Benjamin Frank- 

 lin." Bless the memory of those two great 

 and good men. Are they all dead and gone? 

 Not quite. Read the following: 



Coming down to more recent times it is probably 

 a fact thaf the late Frederick \V. HoUs, of New York, 

 had more to do with the establishment of the Hague 

 Court than any one else, while Mr. Carnegie has 

 given it a palace in which it shall hereafter sit. 



May the Holy SjDirit bless our Mr. Car- 

 negie; and may he get his sleeves rolled up 

 and get right into the work for peace. God 

 grant that he too shall eventually, come out 

 under the banners of the Prince of Peace, 

 whose advent was announced in the words 

 of our text, "Peace on earth." 



If I understand the paper correctly, our 

 present President, Mr. Taft, is also in favor 

 of this peace movement we are talking 

 about.* He is a big man in many ways; 

 and if we as a people can not stand back of 

 him and follow in his wake, especially for 

 peace, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. 



I wish to quote the concluding paragraph 

 of that leaflet in closing: 



If the world federation commission is appointed 

 by the United States government with Theodore 

 Roosevelt as chairman, can any one believe that 

 the day will not be brought measurably nearer, 

 when, as Victor Hugo prophesied in 1849, " the only 

 battlefield will be the market opening to commerce, 

 and the human mind opening to new ideas"? 



And finally, brethren, is it not about time 

 for us to "quit being hypocrites"? 



Ex-President Roosevelt, in his address 

 about "abolishing war by force," calls to 

 mind a little incident. By the way, I have 

 several times noticed that it is often a dan- 

 gerous piece of business to undertake to act 

 as peacemaker. Only a few years ago a 

 couple of men on tlie streets of Cleveland 

 got to fighting. I do not know but it was a 

 sort of race war. A third man came along 

 and commenced to remonstrate; and he 

 finally undertook, as Roosevelt expressed it, 

 to abolish tvar hy force. As lie did not suc- 

 ceed very well he called on a fourth person 

 to help iiim stoj) the two neighbors fight- 

 ing. In a little time, instead of a figlit be- 

 tween two it was a fight between four. 

 Some more neighbors joined the crowd, and 

 they likewise tried remonstrance, and got 

 into the fight themselves, and pretty soon 

 there were a dozen or twenty fighting hke 



* It is expected that ex-President Roosevelt will 

 be named by President Taft as chairman of the com- 

 mission authorized by the joint resolution of con- 

 gress to report to congress the plans for permanent 

 and world-wide peace, thereby relieving the nations 

 of the burdens of armament.— CTet)e/a«(i Plain Deal- 

 er. 



cats and dogs, shooting promiscuously in 

 the crowtled streets, and wounding several 

 bystanders; and the saddest part of it was 

 that not more than two in the whole lot 

 knew what they were fighting about unless 

 they were fighting for "peace." A police- 

 man, however, who had authorUy, finally 

 succeeded in quelling the hubbub. But 

 there were many sore heads and some bleed- 

 ing noses before the end came. Now, this 

 was a small private affair th ;t was ended in 

 perhaps a small part of an hour. What 

 would be the result, pray tell me, if such a 

 thing were to occur among nations? Where 

 could we find a policeman clothed with suf- 

 ficient official authority and something else 

 to back him up so that he might say as did 

 the dear Savior to the discordant elements, 

 "Peace, be still"? And by the way, dear 

 friends, is this world federation, of peace on 

 earth (and good will to men) to be under 

 the dominion of "thel^amb of God that 

 taketli away tlie sins of the world " ? 



I had not intended even to mention the 

 celebrated prize-fight; in fact, the above was 

 in type before the fight occurred. It did 

 occur to me, however, that the fight was a 

 good deal in line with the $10,000,000 war- 

 ships. Tliere was this difTerence, however: 

 The making of the ship required mecliani- 

 cal skill and the benefits of modern science; 

 wliereas the prize-fight required nothing of 

 the kind. We all felt sad when the shame- 

 ful affair was permitted to take place any- 

 where in the United States; but as a color- 

 ed man won the battle — a man witliout cul- 

 ture or intelligence, if I am correctly im- 

 formed — the whole affair may, in God's 

 providence, turn out to be a wonderful ob- 

 ject-lesson.* If one of these prize-fighters 

 sliould test his strength with a mule, people 

 would think he had gone crazy; and maybe 

 this event may have the effect of bringing 

 some crazy people to their senses. The con- 

 flicts now before tlie world can not be set- 

 tled by brute strength (which comes large- 

 ly by accident), nor even by scientific at- 

 tainments and mechanical skill, but by 

 something along the line of that beautiful 

 text in Zechariah, which says, "Not by 

 might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith 

 the Lord of hosts," If the world should de- 

 cide to encourage and uphold prize-fights, 

 tlien we might go on in the strife to see what 

 nation could build the most effective engines 

 for murdering our sons and daughters; bu 

 if our greatest and highest aim is to save 

 life, and to find how we may most success- 



* While the white man was badly poiuided and 

 bruised, the colored man escaped with only one very 

 slight bruise; for his opponent, with all his skill and 

 training and backing, was hardly able to touch 

 him at all. If the outcome shall result in lifting all 

 h\imanity to a higher and better level we can all 

 join in that beautiful little hymn that they are still 

 singing in that little church amid the hills of North- 

 ern jMichlgan: 



Lord, lift me up. and let me stand 

 By faith on heaven's table-land — 

 A higher lilane than I have found — 

 I.,ord, plant my feet on higher ground. 



