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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sept. 15 



promise of my I,ord and King Here is a peculiar 

 ihing : Can you account tor it ? When I started this 

 work I sent out a man to beg for it, and sent out let- 

 ters and newspaper appeals. Every effort of this kind 

 has failed miserably. However, after we practically 

 put our all into it, money has begun to come from 

 men and women who want to share the blessedness 

 of developing these boys into useful men. Recently 

 a banker drove out into the countiy and give a broth- 

 er $50 for the work. I had never heard of him, and 

 he is not identified with us so far as I know. I,a!?t 

 mail I got a letter from a .stranger enclosing 85 00. I 

 did not ask him for it, but he sent it. Who told him 

 to do it? Now a word about these boys. You observ- 

 ed that most of them are big strong fellows from the 

 farm. They are learning the Bible. They are learn- 

 ing English. They are learning un.selfishnej-s. They 

 are learning the dignity and graudeur of labor. They 

 are learning to trust and wait. They are learning 

 that the Christian religion is spelled out in thorns and 

 gioans and sweat and utter self-forgettulness. I be- 

 lieve I could find .--ixty men in the tmilding at this 

 moment who would, if ready to graduate, go out into 

 the benighted regions of the earth and preach to the 

 poor, without a guaranteed salary from any one. Can 

 you find sixtv infidels who are willing to go out and 

 deuy themselves the endearments of home and the 

 blessings of the Christian civilization they affect to 

 despise, and proclaim the glories and blessedness of 

 unbelief? You can not find one ! " By their fruits ye 

 shall know them." You can fling your doubts at the 

 Bible; you can denv the divinity of Jesus of Nazi- 

 reth ; but there stands the School of the Evangelists, 

 and in it young men from all parts of the country, 

 who are learning the way of the Lord and catching 

 the unselfish spirit of Jrsus the Christ. I candidlj- 

 confess that the whole thing seems as wonderful to 

 me as it possibly can to you. I look back over the 

 time since we began and say that right here on Kim- 

 berlin Heights, Tenn., are evidences that God is, and 

 that he hears when we cry in faith I realize 

 that this is just the beginning. Just in proportion as 

 I take hold on God, his people take hold of this work. 

 Money comes in small sums. In this I rejoice. It 

 means that the work is taking lool in many hearts, 

 and that from the rising to the going down of the 

 sun, prayersare, like incense sweet, rising from many 

 hearts that God will not allow us to be put to shame 

 in the presence of those who do not believe. God has 

 all things at his command, and I am his. I make my 

 living out of the Correspondence Bible College, and 

 stand pledged before God and men to put every dollar 

 placea in our hands as the result of the sale of my 

 books, or from anv other source, dollar for dollar, 

 into thiswoik Before my conversion I would not 

 have done this On the infidel hypothesis, how do 

 you account for the fact that I do it now? Nor is this 

 all. I sound it out far and near that I will not turn 

 a poor younsj preacher away as long as we have roorii! 

 I accept your challenge. Pledge yourself on honor 

 not to mention your unbelief to any one ; come here 

 a year and see these things with your own eyes, and 

 you may have access to all the cla>se-, and your board 

 will not co-t you a cent. I have no time to dispute. 

 "Come and see " (John 1:46). 



Trusting that, thiough the rifted clouds of unbelief, 

 you may soon " see Jesu.-i," I am in warmest compas- 

 sion, 



Faithfully your friend 



ASHLEY S. Johnson. 



After reading the above, even before I had 

 spoken to Mr. Calvert, I wrote to Bro. John- 

 son, and asked him to let me know what had 

 been done in his great work during the past 

 six years. In reply he sent me quite a pile of 

 literature, full of half-tone engravings of the 

 young ministers he is educating, and of the 

 grand buildings God has enabled him to build 

 and pay for ; and, dear reader, I \vi,sh you 

 would write to Bro. A. S. Johnson, Kimberlin 

 Heights, Tenn., for some of his free tracts and 

 circulars I tell you as he told the young in- 

 fidel, " Come and .see ; " or perhaps, more lit- 

 erally, send to him for a report of the work, 

 and see for yourself " what God has wrought." 

 Tl'.ose of you who have Muller's Life of Trust 

 will recognize at once how similar it is in 

 many respects to that great work. 



" GUESSING-CONTESTS " AND SIMILAR GAM- 

 BLING ENTERPRISES. 



We rejoice to see the following in that good 

 home paper, the Ohio Farmer. Of course, 

 we give it our heariy indorsement. 



We are glad the Postmaster-General has spoken 

 clearly in regard to the ' guessing contents" on the 

 population ot the United States and Canada, that have 

 lately filled scores of c lumi;s of advertising and edi- 

 torial space in many otherwi.se decent papers It is a 

 lottery business pure and simple, and as such should 

 be excluded from the mails. 



The .scheme was urged upon The Ohio Faimer, and 

 promptly rejected in the interests of Common decency. 

 It is noioulv a lottery — a game of chance — but a dis- 

 honest lotterv. As nearly as can be computed from 

 the ds.ta at hand, the guessing subs-cribeis of any 

 given periodical have only about one-tenth to one- 

 twentieth as good a chance as they are led to believe 

 thry have— to win the $15 000 or smaller prizes; for 

 the prizes go not to the subscribers of that one paper, 

 as they are tacitly led to suppose, but to them in com- 

 mon with those of some teu, twenty, or thirty other 

 papers that are in the scheme. The claim that the 

 subscribeis pay nothing for their chance to guess is 

 frflse, for the chance to gue.ss is the sole objective pre- 

 mium or inducement offered, and often the sole sub- 

 jective motive for subscribing. We are glad such con- 

 tests are hereafter to be excluded from the mails — 

 whoUv, we hope, as lottery schemes, not partly as 

 illegitimate second-class matter. We are glad too, of 

 the general reform piomised ; for if all the abuses 

 that have crept iuto our po-tal system — including 

 most of the free-mail matte; — can be stopped, we may 

 easily have penny postage on letters, and rural mail 

 delivery. 



MENTAL-SCIENCE HEALERS COME TO GRIEF. 

 We clip the following from the Cleveland 

 News and Herald : 



ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF USING THE MAILS FOR 

 FRAUDULENT PURPOSES. 



Daytona, Fl'., August 24.— Helen Post, her husband, 

 Colonel C. C. Post, and her son-in law, C. F. Burgman, 

 were arrested to day on information sworn to by Post- 

 office Insptctor Fred D. Peer, charging them with 

 using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The thrte 

 were taken to Jacksonville, where they will have a 

 hearing before United States Commissioner William 

 Archibald. 



The offense alleged consisted in .^ending through 

 the mails circulars professing to cure patients at a 

 distance by meaus ot mental science. Mrs. Post 

 claimed to be able to heal all kinds of diseases, even 

 restoring the blind, holding that no disease was incur- 

 able by her method of treatment. 



I felt like shouting, "May the Lord be 

 praised that the U. S. Postal Department 

 comes out fairly and squarely, and declares 

 these things frauds." The most distressing 

 part of the affair is that so many people, and 

 people apparently gifted with plain common 

 sense, will insist that the government is 

 wrong, and that these mental healers are a 

 bles.=.ing to humanity. Our stenographer sug- 

 gests that these mental healers do doubtless 

 cure some kind.s of "blindness." In fact, it 

 is to be hoped they do. 



STREET FAIRS, ETC. 



I am glad to see the following in the Am. 

 Agriculturist. I have wondered that sensible 

 people had tolerated such an outrage as long 

 as they have. 



The street fair has about had its day. Some towns, 

 however, do not seem to fully undtrstand the perni- 

 cious effect of this latter-day nuisance, and quite a 

 number are scheduled for this summer and fall. That 

 no good will c me from any of them is a foregone 

 conclusion, as any one knows who has had experience 

 with them. 



