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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1918 



Al 



our usu- "• 

 al Wednes- 

 day-even- 

 ing prayer - 

 meeting, our 

 leader, Rev. Dr. 

 Hallock, gave 

 out cards to be 

 answered, and 

 the one handed 

 me read as fol- 

 lows: 



" Do you ex- 

 pect that the 

 whole world will 

 some day know 

 and love Jesus 

 Christ? Why?" 



On account of 

 my impaired 

 hearing I have 

 for years been in the habit of getting as 

 close to the speaker in any meeting as I 

 can ; and therefore when it came my turn 

 to reply to my card I rose up, turned 

 around, and spoke to the good people gath- 

 ered there as follows : 



My good friends, some of you may smile 

 when I say, first and foremost, I expect 

 " the whole world will some day know and 

 love Jesus Christ," because the Bible says it 

 will, and I refer you to our first text at the 

 head of this talk. 



Secondly, I believe the whole wide world 

 will ultimately be converted to Christianity, 

 because just now a thousand evidences point 

 toward sucli a culmination. 



Since the world began, the liquor traffic 

 has been the greatest obstacle to the spread 

 of the gospel; and just now, for the first 

 time, it seems to be " losing its grip " on our 

 business and politics — a grip that it has 

 maintained for ages, in almost undisputed 

 sway. In fact, for almost seventy years of 

 my life I have seen it " jeer " at " temper- 

 ance fanatics," as it was pleased to call us, 

 and say by action, if not words, " Help 

 yourself if you can." Well, almost as I 

 speak (may God be praised!) our Govern- 

 ment, both House and Senate, have come 

 out with a large majority for nation-wide 

 prohibition. All that is needed now is for 

 three-quarters of the states to endorse this 

 action. Twenty-seven states are already 

 dry, and Ohio has already " rolled up her 

 sleeves " to go into the fight to make be- 

 loved Ohio the first of the nine now needed 

 to complete the victory. God grant that 

 Florida (also "beloved") may be second 

 in the list. 



Just here my good neighbor Rood 

 (superintendent of our big Sunday-scliool) 



OUR HOMES 



A. I. ROOT 



a 



Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and 

 given him a name which is above every name ; that 

 at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of 

 things in heaven, and things on earth, and things 

 under the earth; and that every tongue should con- 

 fess that .Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God 

 the Father. — Phil. 2:9, 11. 



He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, 

 out of the miry clay ; and he set my feet upon a 

 rock, and established my goings. And he hath put 

 a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our 

 God : Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust 

 in the Lord. — Psalm 40:2, 3. 



interrupted m e 

 by saying, 

 " Why not have 

 Florida first and 

 Ohio second?" 



Of course I 

 said " amen ;" 

 but I admonished 

 Florida to hurry 

 up if she didn't 

 want to "get 

 left." It has 

 often been said 

 of late, that, as 

 Ohio goes so 

 goes the whob 

 United States ; 

 just now it 

 might almost be 

 said, as the 

 United States 

 goes, so goes the " whole wide woi'ld." My 

 friends, does it not just now begin to occur 

 to you that this terrible war is on the way 

 toward a " new heaven " and possibly " a 

 new earth," in many respects? 



Befoi'e leaving the subject of temperance, 

 let me quote from one of the greatest dailies 

 of our land. The Toledo Blade was, years 

 ago, one of the first city dailies to come oiit 

 squarely for prohibition, and it has ever 

 since been pouring " hot shot " into the 

 ranks of the enemy. Here is one of their 

 latest : 



"The greatest saving now when mO'St needed 

 would be made by stoppin,g entirely the shipping 

 of beer and also the returning of barrels, kegs, 

 and cases of bottles, which take as much freight 

 as the original shipment. The railroads formerly 

 carried these returns free. 



"You will see side tracks filled with cars loaded 

 with coal while people are suffering for the want 

 of coal, and factories shut down, throwing employes 

 out of work because of the lack of coal, but you 

 will see train loads of beer goinjg by on schedule 

 time. 



"Even with the 25 per cent reduction in the 

 amount of alcohol there will be wasted in manu- 

 facture of beer 54,000,000 bushels of grain a year, 

 and the weight of water in the beer and the kegs 

 and bottles multiplies this by eight, so you have 

 on a transportation basis the weight of more than 

 432,000,000 bushels of grain used up for beer 

 shipment alone, or 1,080,000 carload lots a year — 

 enough to relieve the railroad congestion of the 

 ITnited States for aU time." 



No matter if the schools are closed, the 

 factories shut down, and people contracting 

 tuberculosis because of cold, beer must have 

 the " right of way " before everything else ! 

 How long Avill Oliio stand this? How long 

 will the world stand this? Perhaps it will 

 have been stopped before you see this in 

 print. God grant it may be so. Just now 

 our physicians are reporting that the ter- 

 rible (and almost incurable) disease syphi- 



