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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Septkmrkr, 1918 



sight, Lord, my strenjith and my re- 

 deemei'.' " 



I think those who have tried it, espe- 

 cially men folks, may have found that it 

 is a comparatively easy thinii' to be careful 

 of their icords : but when it comes to keep- 

 ing " the meditations of their heart" so 

 that thei/ will all be acceptable in the sight 

 of the all-seeing God, then it comes to be 

 a task; and at times it may seem to be a most 

 hopeless task. But do not despair nor give 

 up, dear brother or sister. As you look 

 back you will see and feel you are making 

 progress; and altho at times it seems as 

 if the i)innacle would never be reached in 

 one short human life, it is worth the try- 

 ing; for among all the promises in Grod's 

 lioly word there is one tliat seems to me 

 overtops them all ; and when you get per- 

 fect control of your thoughts as well as of 

 your words you will have in view the pre- 

 cious promise of the dear Savior, in one of 

 the beatitudes — '* Blessed are the pure in 

 heart, for tJiei/ shall see God." 



(To be continued.) 



FISH AS AN ARTICLE OF DIET; DOES THE 

 SAVIOR INDORSE IT? 



On iiage 410 of Gleanings foi- July. Dr. 

 Miller kindly suggests that I am not care- 

 ful enough in quoting scripture. While 

 this may be true, and T promise to be more 

 careful in the future, let me explain tliat 

 I did not have in mind Luke 24:42. In tlie 

 21st chapter of John, verses 12 and I'A, 

 we read : 



"Jesus saith unto them, come and iliiie. Ard none 

 of the disciples durst ask him. Who art thou ? 

 knowing that it was the Lord." 



" Jesus then cometh. and taketh Ijread. and giveth 

 them, and fish likewise." 



The above indicates without question, as 

 it seems to me, that he provided a repast 

 of bread and fish; and when he at another 

 time performed the miracle of loaves and 

 fishes, he gave them fish also. My opinion 

 is, however, that he provided only the most 

 couHuon article of diet, or, in other woi-ds, 

 such a meal as they were accustomed to; 

 and I am not sure that he meant to indorse 

 a meat diet by furnishing fish. On the 

 other hand, it is quite true — that is, it so 

 seems to me — that he did not consider fish 

 diet in any way olijectitmable or unwhole- 

 some. 



TOBACCO AMON(! THE SOLDTEliS IN T 1 1 K AI.'.MV; 



.SOilK FURTHER CONSIOKKATIONS 



REGARDING THK MATTER. 



T wonder how many of our readers take 

 tlie monthly ])ublis!H'(l at Rattle Creek, 

 Michigan, entitled (iooil Health. Kach is- 

 sue of late seems to 1)e especially \aluable; 

 and after wliat 1 l)ave said in regard to to- 



bacco in the army in our two past issue?, 

 the following clipping fits in well, even if 

 it does suggest that perhaps 1 have been 

 thoughtless sometimes, and may have gone 

 to too great an extreme. Here is tl;e 

 cli]iping: 



Our war administrators are men of Ctxtraordinar;- 

 abilit.v, and are showing an amazing; degree of 

 efficiency and wisdom in the management of tie 

 greatest enterprise ever undertaken by any coun- 

 try. The advisability of including tobacco in tb" 

 .soldier's ration doubt'.&ss received careful cousidev;- 

 tion before the ordc.r was given, and the ord(>" 

 must have been based upon the fact that 90 to 8.") 

 per ( ent of all the soldiers are smokeis. 



To deprive the smoker of tobacco, while at home 

 everybody continues to smoke as much as he likes, 

 would naturally tend to make the. soldier discontent- 

 ed and unhappy because of the apparent discriiniua- 

 tion against him. Hence it was doubtless regarded 

 as expedient, under the circumstanceis, to give the 

 soldier the same opportunity for indulging in his 

 favorite dope as the tobacco addicts at home en.ioy ; 

 and the most convenient way of doing this is doiibt- 

 less the distribution of the drug as a part of the 

 soldier's ration. But there is nothing in this action 

 that in any way indorses the idea that tobacco-using 

 is a good thing for anybody. It i.s simply a con- 

 cession. 



CIGARETTES — ARE THEY HARMFUL TO 

 ADULTS — MEN AND WOMEN .^ 



The letter on the first page of Our 

 Homes of our last issue intimates, as T 

 take it, that cigarettes axe Irrniil oilv 

 to boys and girls; but the clipping below, 

 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, does not 

 quite seem to accord with that idea. 



.MAX CIGARETTE .SUICIDE; KILLS HIMSELF BECAVSE 

 HE CANNOT QUIT. 



Redding, Cal., July 14. — Because he could not 

 stop smoking cigarettes Charles M. Byers. a miner, 

 walked out to the county cemetery and fired a bul- 

 let thru his brain. 



" Bury me in here," instructed a note found in 

 his clothing. " I have tried again and again to stop 

 smoking cigarettes. I cannot do it." 



Bvers was 50. 



\VII.\T A LITTLE TRACT MAY DO. 



The A.sher Publishing Co., 359 Minnesota St.. 

 St. Paul, Minn., sends out a printed list of religio'US 

 tracts and temperance leaflets. These tracts are 

 offered at the very low pri<e of from two cents a 

 dozen up to two cents each: and this latter price 

 sometimes includes quite a little book for a .small 

 sum of money. Among others is the Daii-yman's 

 Daughter for two cents. Well, their list of tracts, 

 1 ig and littk^, comprises sever;il hundred liflei*. On 

 the bust page is something that gave me one of my 

 hai)py surprises. It is this: 



" A woman dropi)ed a tract in tlie \va\' of Richard 

 Baxter which led to his conversion. Richard Bax- 

 ter wrote " The Call to the Unconverted," which 

 was the means of brin<ring a multitude to God, 

 among others Philip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge 

 wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the 

 .Soul," which brought thousands into the kingdom; 

 and among others the great AVill erforce. Wilier- 

 force wrote " A Practi<'al View of Clii'istianity," 

 which was (he means of l)rin'-ring nianv to Christ, 

 among others Leigh Kichmond. Leigh IJiclunond 

 wrote " The Dairyman's Daughter." wliiili lias 

 been the means of converting many." 



Is not this wonderful, friends, that ,ins( one 

 seemingly insignificant slip of pajier should sta'M 

 a ball rolling down the ages that shall not on'i- 

 " save a multitude of souls," but ])erha|is nnike a 

 marked change in (lie literature of the whole wide 

 world; Send a s(anii) to the Asher Publishing Co. 

 and ge( their price list. 



