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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15. 



the promise that they, hi'* disciples, after hav- 

 ing received the Holy Ghost, should have power 

 to forgive sins, to bind on earth and to bind in 

 heaven, etc. Humanity, however, is unstable, 

 and even Peter himself, only a little time after 

 his declaration, denied his Master. Notwith- 

 standing his strong words when he was with 

 the Master and the rest of the disciples. " Thou 

 art the Christ, the Son of the living God."' he 

 shortly afterward said, and that before a crowd 

 of people, " I do not know the man.'" This he 

 repeated, finally using oaths and curses, to 

 make it more emphatic. Surely, the Savior 

 could not have meant that his church should be 

 built on any human being so weak and vascillat- 

 ing and cowardly as Peter. Neither does it 

 seem to me that he meant to declare that such a 

 weak follower should have power to forgive 

 sins. Of course, Peter received the Holy Ghost 

 after this event: and he may afterward have 

 been empowered to forgive sins, for we know 

 he performed wonderful miracles; but no such 

 power of performing miracles has ever been 

 granted to any descendants of these apostles, 

 nor to any son Of humanity since their time. 

 Now, dear friend B., this is a subject outside 

 the scope of Gleanings. T did not mean to 

 take it up here, and I feel sure we had better 

 drop it where it is. You have asked my opin- 

 ion, and I have given it as well and honestly as 

 I know how. 1 thank you for your beautiful 

 texts. They are dear to my heart, every one of 

 them, and I feel sure they are also dear to most 

 of the readers of (Jleanings. Should we not 

 all be thankful that the great Father has seen 

 tit to let each one interpret the Scriptures ac- 

 cording to the dictates of his own conscience? 

 " Judge not, that ye be not judged." 



Tobacco Column. 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WK GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 STOP USING TOBACCO. 



First, the candidate must be one of those who have given up 

 tobacco in consequence of what he has seen and read in this 

 department. Second, he promises to pay for the smoker 

 should he ever resume the use of tobacco in any form, after 

 receiving the smoker. Third, he must be a subscriber to 

 Gleanings. Any subscriber may, however, have smokers sent 

 to neighbors or personal acquaintances whom he has labored 

 with on the matter of tobacco-using, providing he give us his 

 pledge that, if the one who receives the smoker ever uses to- 

 bacco again, he (the subscriber) will pay forthe smoker The 

 one who receives the smoker in this case need not be a sub- 

 scriber to Gleanings, though we greatly prefer that he be one, 

 because we think he would be strengthened by reading the 

 testimonials from time to time in regard to this matter. The 

 tuli name and address of every one who makes the promise 

 must be furnished for publication. 



Prof. Thomas Shaw, of the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College, Ontario, the man who is fighting 

 weeds on the farm more effectively, perhaos, 

 than any other man ju-t now in the whole 

 world, also makes it his business to tight weeds 

 of another sort. He recently paid a visit to W. 

 I. Chamberlain, T. B. Terry, and John Gould, 

 three men with a world-wide reputation in our 

 immediate neighborhood: and I just want to 

 make an extract from the OhUi Fanner in re- 

 gard to his visit with friend Gould. Here is the 

 clipping: 



There were many thing-s that Intererested me 

 very mucli at Aurora station. I will syieak of but 

 three. The first was a farmer's library, one of tlie 

 finest I have ever seen in any farm home, whether 

 we regard tlie books which iteontaint'd as liistorical, 

 biographical, literary, or religlDUs. Tliis library was 

 the outcome of twelve years of wedded life, and rep- 

 resented what but two cig-ais per day would have 

 cost during that time. The queen of this home, before 

 slie became its queen, exacted of her 1< ver the 

 promise that the two cigars per day which he was 

 wont to smoke should remain unbought, and books 

 purchased with the proceeds. To his undying hon- 



or he has remained true to that promise. Hear my 

 story, O ye maidens of Ohio! Do you know that, in 

 a single generation, the power is yours to banish the 

 weed from all your borders, and to fill the farm 

 homes of Ohio with literature of a most helpful 

 character'/ 



Please send a smoker to Wm. C. Teagardin. 

 Frisco, Ark. He has quit tobacco to stay quit: 

 but if he should ever use it again he will pay 

 for the smoker. He is a bee-keeper in Wash- 

 ington Co. Mary A. VVoo.ster. 



Frisco, Ark., Nov. 12. 



I have been a subscriber to Gleanings for 

 two years. Since I commenced reading Glean- 

 ings I have quit the use of tobacco. I will not 

 resume the habit, smoker or no smoker; but as 

 you are giving others smokers, I should be 

 pleased to receive one as a present. 



W. C. Gathkight. 



Cameron, Texas, Dec. 4. 



One of my neinghbors, Mr. O. Goodmondsen, 

 has subscribed for ( Ileaning.s, and has quit the 

 use of tobacco. If you will send him a smoker 

 for his pledge he will pay for it if he ever uses 

 tobacco again. I will go his security, cl: 



Jewell, Fla. A. J. Husky. 



Send a smoker to Mr. Wm. L. Albright, 

 Kinderton. Fla. I think he is entitled to one: 

 and if he should ever use tobacco again I will 

 pay for the smoker. J. H. Hill. 



Grove City, Oct. 21. 



In October I wrote to you for a copy of 

 Gleanings. Yon sent me a June number in 

 which I saw the Tobacco Column. I have 

 smoked and chewed for 28 years, and wanted to 

 obligate myself to quit in some way for a long 

 time. I quit on the 1.5th of October. Since 

 then I have not used it in any form. I claim a 

 smoker to " keep me quit."' and if I use tobacco 

 again I will pay for the smoker. 



R. H. HUiMPHRIES. 



Morganfield, Ky., Nov. 24. 



A neighbor of mine, Mr. D. C. Burton, has 

 quit the use of tobacco, after using it to excess. 

 If you are still giving the smokers, please send 

 him one. He keeps bees on a small scale. If 

 he ever commences using tobacco again I will 

 see that the smoker is paid for. 



DeLand, 111. Joseph A. Campbell. 



Your Tobacco Column has done great good. 

 Your little token of a pledge will often do more 

 than a large amount. I heard a young man's 

 mother tell him that, if he would stop smoking, 

 she would give him fifty dollars at the end of 

 the year. I told him of your efforts to stop the 

 use of tobacco, and of the smoker as a remind- 

 er. Please send him one, and he will stop his 

 smoking; if he does not he will pay for the 

 smoker. He is a good young man, and his influ- 

 ence may lead others. His name is David H. 

 Marbury, Bozeman, Ala. Mrs. W. M. Gray. 



Kincheon, Ala., Jan. 6, 1893. 



My father has given me a swarm of bees in 

 one of your Dovetailed hives. I read in 

 Gleanings that you give a smoker to those 

 who have used tobacco and quit using it. I 

 never did chew or smoke any thing except cig- 

 arettes: but pa said to me that he ought to have 

 at least one boy who did not use tobacco. I 

 have quit for some time, and I know I shall not 

 have 10 pay for the smoker, for I know I am 

 entirely rid of the desire to smoke, and have 

 been for six months or more. Please send me a 

 smoker, and I will certainly pay for it if I do 

 use tobacco at all fi-om now on. 



Lakeland, Fla., Nov. 8. J. S. Green. 



