1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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that we are fighting. One of the speakers 

 made the remark that our churches, Sunday- 

 schools, and Endeavor societies, and other re- 

 ligious organizations, could not thrive and 

 prosper if they confined their work solely to 

 •' peace on earth, goo 1 will to men." In olden 

 times there were battles to fight, and the Cliris- 

 tkm was by no means exempt from duty of this 

 kind. Watts, in one of his old hymns, says: 



Are there no foes for me to face ? 



Must I not stem the flood ? 

 Is this vile world a friend to grace. 



To help me on to GodV.ti 



Sure I must figlit if I would reign,- 



Increase my courage, Lord: 

 I'll hear the toil, endure the pain. 



Supported by thy word.u 



And It is just as true to day as it was then. 

 The church or the Endeavor society that sees 

 no foes to fight can not very long amount to 

 much. A visit to almost any of our towns in 

 Southern Ohio will show us the foe. 



The Ohio Anti-saloon League has collected 

 and expended during the year, in round num- 

 Isers, I'.i5,000. I was greatly interested in the 

 way the money had been used, and so I asked 

 some questions. I am sure it has been well in- 

 vested. According to my judgment the salaries 

 paid are very fair and proper for the amount of 

 service rendered. I do not know but some of 

 the good brethren thought I was needlessly in- 

 quisitive; but as I have been frequently asked 

 what they did with the money, I wanted to be 

 able to answer tmderstandingly. Every county 

 in our State has made some contribution; but 

 from some the amount has been very small. 

 Quite a large number of counties have contrib- 

 uted from $100 to $500; but the greater part 

 have given less than $100. 



May I tell you briefly what our League has 

 accomplished? Well, we have held our ground 

 and done something more. You may, perhaps, 

 know that almost every temperance law that 

 has been passed in our State has been repealed 

 or so modified as to be of little account shortly 

 after its passage. Who did it? Why, those 

 who wanted to make money out of our boys, 

 and who did not care a fig whether they went 

 down to ruin or not. Only a short time ago we 

 had a very good law against the sale of cigar- 

 ettes — or, if you choose, cigarettes to school- 

 children. It was repealed in a very short time, 

 or modified so as to be of but little account. 

 Why was this done? Because it blocked the 

 enormous trade that had been growing up in 

 cigarettes. Ministers, teachers in our schools, 

 mothers, and all good people, gave abundant 

 evidence that the cigarette was worse than 

 poison. It kills soul and body. lUtt it hindered 

 trade. It is the Ohio Whisky League that is 

 busy with its millions of money in repr-aling 

 our temperance laws as fast as we can make 

 them. The law against permitting boys under 

 age to enter saloons has been a grievous one to 

 the brewers and saloon-keepers; and, if I am 

 correct, it would have been repealed long ago 

 had it not been for the efforts of temperance 

 people to the contrary. Of course, I do not 

 mean to say that the Anti-saloon League has 

 been doing all of the temperance work. God 

 forbid that I should get any such idea into my 

 head. The meeting on the evening of Julv 30 

 was a private one of only a few people. The 

 one the day after, at the Lancaster camp-meet- 

 ing grounds, was a public meeting; and among 

 the speakers were some of the best in the State 

 or in any other State. Hon. S. E. Nicholson, 

 of Indiana, the originator of the famous Nich- 

 olson Bill, gave us a talk that ought to be given 

 throughout the United States. By the aid of 

 this bill of his framing, 700 saloons have been 



closed in Indiana during the past year. He is 

 not only a temperance man and a devout Chris- 

 tian, but he is a fearless man. It makes one 

 think of Parkhurst and Roosevelt, of New 

 York, to hear him talk. A great many politi- 

 cians are fearful that they will not be elected 

 if they come out fair and square against the 

 saloon, or if they have the courage to advise 

 the prompt enforcement of our laws. Mr. N. 

 has not lacked support, by any means, and his 

 experience verifies the promise that godliness is 

 profitable. 



Let me add just a word in regard to this Lan- 

 caster camp-meeting ground. The city of 

 Lancaster is by no means a temperance town. 

 At the meeting of our Board, a gentleman re- 

 marked to me that some years ago he was call- 

 ed upon to give a temperance talk at the county 

 fair at Lancaster; but there was not very much 

 enthusiasm on temperance among the crowd 

 that attended the fair. In the first place, there 

 are over 70 saloons in a town of scarcely 7000 in- 

 habitants. Second, they were selling beer on 

 the fairgrounds to such an extent that they 

 finally moved the stuff out of one of the halls, 

 and gave the whole great building to the use of 

 the beer-sellers. No wonder they could not 

 listen to a temperance lecture. 



Now, then, for the campground. I am told 

 the present is the 24th annual meeting on these 

 grounds. Very pretty and substantial cottages 

 have been put up; in fact, the architecture is 

 so tasty and unique than one can spend an hour 

 very profitably passing along the streets and 

 viewing the comfortable summer homes. Like 

 the campground at Lakeside, one never hears 

 an oath, and he is never offended by the smoke 

 of a cigar or cigarette— at least, I did not hear 

 or see anything of that sort. Everybody you 

 meet is not only bright and intelligent, but 

 looks like a Christian and acts like a Christian. 

 Why, the contrast in going through the crowds 

 of men, women, and children, on this ground, 

 between that of the crowds found in the aver- 

 age city around the railway depots, or even on 

 our county fairgrounds, is just wonderful. It 

 makes me think again and again of that beau- 

 tiful text: 



DAnd there shall in no wise enter into it any thing 

 that deflleth, neither whatsoever worked abomina- 

 tion, or maketh a lie; but they which are written in 

 the Lamb's book of life.— Rev. '21:2'. I 



Hon. Joshua Levering, presidential nominee 

 of the Prohibition party, said in reply to a re- 

 porter: "Our object is simply to close up the 

 saloons, and not to interfere with what a man 

 drinks in his own house. Nearly all the crime 

 in this country, directly or indirectly, is trace- 

 able to the saloons." He said further, that the 

 reason of all the troubles in our fair land to-day 

 is "not over production but under-consump- 

 tion;" and adds that the prime reason of this 

 under-consumplion of the necessaries and lux- 

 uries is to be found in the waste caused by the 

 liquor habit. We take the above from the Chi- 

 cago Advance of Aug. 6. . 



I have spoken elsewhere about leaving the 

 train and taking my wheel at New Philadel- 

 phia. The first man I inquired of told me that 

 the distance to Newcomerstown was 27 miles. 

 The next man said it was 18 miles, which was 

 exactly right, in a straight line. When about 



