1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



433 



The Tobacco Column for this issue, as the 

 friends will observe, is, a great part of it, 

 going security for some friend or relative ; 

 and this is exactly what we want. In fact, 

 I should much prefer having the pledges 

 given in this way. We wish the one who 

 pledges himself, however, to be a subscriber 

 to Gleanings. The one who gives up us- 

 ing tobacco need not necessarily be a sub- 

 scriber himself. In all cases, however, his 

 own good will depend very much on Glean- 

 ings being well circulated in his own 

 neighborhood. The second one who takes 

 the pledge is a minister of the gospel. One 

 of his people agrees to deliver the smoker, 

 and be responsible. May the Lord bless 

 and strengthen this minister. 



EDITOl^I^L. 



Lord, save us : we perish.— Matt. 8 : 25. 



We have at this date 9931 subscribers. 



CONVERTING COMMON FRAMES INTO HOFFMAN 

 FRAMES. 



Os pjge 435 Ernest speaks of this arrangement as 

 if it were new. It is new to him, but the same 

 thing was recommended and tried before Glean- 

 ings had an existence. It was given in the Ameri- 

 •can Bee Journal; but I believe that those who tried 

 it afterward pried off the strips and threw them 

 away. Present needs, however, may mal^e a differ- 

 ence. 



BEE-CRADLES. 



So.ME years ago, before our present proof-reader 

 and traoslator was here, we received a letter from 

 a friend in Germany. As it was written in the 

 language of that country, we sent it to a linguist to 

 translate. It so happened that the translation 

 came back with the word " bee-cradle." It was 

 very easy for us to guess that, instead of bee-cradle, 

 our German friend meant "queen-cell." We had 

 forgotten all about the circumstance until we just 

 received a letter written by a German friend in 

 Missouri, he writing in French. Being more or less 

 familiar with the German iliom, he sent an order 

 for a lot of "bee-cradles," as large as a certain 

 piece of paper. Our proof-reader studied all the 

 way to dinner and back again as to what " artificial 

 cradles" might mean, as he had never used any oth- 

 er, and yet he had never seen Mr. Warner making 

 any in the saw-room. Finally the incident related 

 above came to his mind, and he then concluded that 

 our friend wanted /O!t?iclatto)i. Ttiis shows the dif- 

 ficulty in translating the technical meaning of a 

 word when it is used in its common acceptation. 

 (Juite likely many passages in the Bible which 

 seem so incomprehensible are owing to the fact 

 that the translators spoke of "cradles" when 

 " honey-comb " was meant. 



SELLING SECRETS FOR MONEY. 



A GREAT number of communications have been 

 received in regard to tiie revival of the water-cure 

 treatment. We have space for only two of them, 

 and I wish to give these two because they Illustrate 

 so forcibly how it is that good e.irnest Christian 



people may differ so widely in opinion. Here is the 

 first: 



Friend Root:— In my last ({leanings I see an article liv vou 

 about A. Wilforil Hall's ni'fiit ilisfovery. The true Cliristian, 

 like his MastiT, is t-ver ready t.j liflp all of Gotl's children in 

 every way in liis powt-r. 1 know some, like yourself, who 

 have sifrned the idiili,"' very idiietantlv, anil some who said 

 they could never sifrn it, tlmufcli it should he the means of 

 saving; their lives, if they could not imnart to others that 

 which has been a Idessinj' to them. 



Yours in the e;uise of blessings for the world, 



Sulphur Grove. O., May 20. S. J. ARNOLD. 



Thank you, friend A., for your very kind words. 

 I think we all agree with you, at least in the main. 



The next is from one of those very ministers of 

 the gospel who have given their names to Dr. Hall, 

 to help him advertise: 



Bro. Root:— 1 received Gleanings to-day, ami was surprised 

 to See an article in reference to Dr. A. Wilford Hall's remedy 

 for euring disease without medicine. What hurt me all over, 

 and down in ray soul, was that you say I ought to be ashamed 

 of myself for indorsing the remedy. I have been trying to 

 preach the old, old gosjiel of Christ about fift.y-flve years, and 

 I am not aware that anybody ever before said I " ought to be 

 ashamed" of something I had done. In my Indorsement, 

 which you can find in the Microcosm, I stated I would not quit 

 the practice for the half of Texas, and I repeat here that I 

 would not. I have been using it about eight months, and. 

 humanly speaking, it saved my life. If the doctors knew of 

 this, why did they not chai"ge "me for a prescription and tell 

 me it would cure me? Dr. Hall admits the remedy has been 

 known to some extent, but never in its application, as he has 

 revealed by his own experience of forty years ago. I must 

 say I think you are slandering him. I feel soi-ry to have to 

 write to you in this wav, but I could not satisfy my mind 

 without doing it. If you had been in the spirit in which you 

 mostly write. I am very doubtful about your writing any of 

 the article. Our business relations have been very satisfacto- 

 ry, and I wish you every good; but I think you have made a 

 mistake. I rem.tin yours very respectfully, 



Luling, Tex. , May 22. S. C. ORCILiRD. 



Dear brother, I can not for a moment doubt the 

 kindness of yourheart,orin the least the h^pest sin- 

 cerity of your motives; still, 1 think you are mak- 

 ing a mistake. The editorial you allude to was 

 written by your old friend A. I. Root himself, and I 

 think that no motive but love to his fellow-men 

 prompted him to write it. No doubt you have been 

 greatly benefited. You are full of enthusiasm in 

 regard to the plan, new to you, of treating disease 

 without medicine. Are you sure that you consult- 

 ed a physician in regard to your poor health, and 

 stated to him exactly where you thought the trou- 

 ble lay? Perhaps our physicians have been remiss. 

 Doctors, and others who have much to do with hu- 

 manity, are used to these sudden excitements in 

 regard to certain things that come up. Very often 

 it is a revival of some old thing, and sometimes it is 

 really some new development; but, dear brothers, 

 all of you, shall we not keep in sight that grand 

 truth once uttered by Gamaliel when he said, " If 

 this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to 

 naught; but if it be of God, ye can not overthrow 

 it " ? Meanwhile the testimony of our best doctors, 

 ministers, and professors in our colleges, will say 

 unmistakably that selling secrets for money, in 

 answer to broadcast advertising, is certainly not 

 only wrong, but it is not up with the spirit of the 

 age and of our American institutions. The man 

 who does it has a bad heart. I am well aware that 

 Dr. Hall gives his pamphlet to ministers of the gos- 

 pel, free of charge; but, dear friends, is not this 

 whole custom wrong, and bad in its tendency, giv- 

 ing ministers certain things with the understand- 

 ing they use their influence to get people at large 

 to buy? A great many pastors of churches refuse 

 to receive any thing at loss than the price charged 

 other people, in order that they may never be ac- 

 cused of having selfish motives in what they advise. 

 Our good friend Terry recently refused to receive 

 a potato-digger as a gift. He insisted on paying 

 the game price that others do, so that he might, 

 when writing through the agricultural papers, ex- 

 press an unbiased opinion cither for or against it. 



