1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Why, friend M., it seems as if there were 

 a providence in having your bright cheering 

 letter follow right along in the wake of the 

 one above it. Who shall say there are not 

 plain evidences of the hand of God in this 

 Tobacco Column V May God bless you for 

 the example which you have set before us 

 all. No, dear friend, I never used tobacco. 

 But there is no credit due me at all for not 

 using it. It did not happen to be in the line 

 of my temptations. Your question reminds 

 me of a jovial friend of mine who has a 

 comic way of declining, when a cigar is 

 offered him. He replies something like 

 this : " No, sir. 1 tell lies and drink 

 whisky, but I never use tobacco." The 

 laugh that this creates lets him out with a 

 good grace. Now, I do not want to have 

 you think that I drink whisky, or that 1 

 ever did ; and I am trying very hard not to 

 tell lies, even little ones, either by word or 

 by act. 



OLD TOBACCO MONEY TURNED INTO CHRISTMAS 

 PRESENTS. 



lam very thankful to you for inspiring me to 

 stop using tobacco; for with the money thus care- 

 fully saved I have bought for my little girl such 

 Christmas gifts as not many children in this neigh- 

 borhood can enjoy; and, besides, I feel much clean- 

 er and better since I no longer handle the accursed 

 weed. Ed E. Smith. 



Carpenter, 111., Dec. 23, 1888. 



Why, friend Smith, yours too is inspiring. 

 The money that you have been using for 

 indulgence in a filthy habit has been trans- 

 formed into useful and wholesome gifts for 

 your little girl. Another thing, that same 

 little girl (and may God bless her) can now 

 climb up into your lap and give you a kiss, 

 without any misgivings that your mouth 

 may not be clean enough for her innocent 

 little face to approach. 



A GOOD RESOLVE AT THE END OF THE YEAR. 



I shall soon be 26 years of age. I am a single man. 

 I commenced to take Gleanings less than a year 

 ago. I have purchased 11 colonies of bees, and ex- 

 pect to keep bees for a livelihood henceforth; but 

 the worst of all, I have used tobacco for the last 

 five years. I did not chew, but smoked. At last I 

 let decency get uppermost, and on the last day of 

 1888 ] bid adieu to tobacco in every form. So far I 

 find it no trouble to do without, and, by the grace 

 of God, I will never U6e it again. I have a brother, 

 who is 2 years younger than I, who used the weed 

 for 12 years in every conceivable form, and was a 

 slave to it. Two years ago he quit it, and has never 

 touched it since. He is going to the State Universi- 

 ty at Morgantown. We were the only ones, out of 

 a family of 4. that used the weed. I do not charge 

 a smoker for my little self-will, but only ask that I 

 may have grace sufficient to enable me to overcome 

 my bad habits. S. Ray Holbert. 



Watson, W. Va., Feb. 6, 1889. 



BREAKING THE HABIT THROUGH GOD'S HELP. 



I tried to quit using the weed in my own strength, 

 but I failed, afterwards I tried again and prayed to 

 God to help me and now I neither smoke or chew, 

 or drink liquor, nor have I any desire or appetite 

 for either. A. W. Maker. 



Urbana, 111., Jan. 5, 1889. 



The heavens declare the glory of God, and the 

 firmament showeth his handiwork.— Ps. 19:1. 



A NOON -DAY PRAYER - MEETING IN THE 

 CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



ONDAY it was my pleasure to attend 

 a noon-day service in the busiest 

 part of the city. I got in early (did 

 you ever know, dear friends, that a 

 special blessing often attends those 

 who are first on hand in God's house V) 

 and was pleased to receive a kindly wel- 

 come, with outstretched hands. And be- 

 fore the meeting opened we early comers 

 had a most pleasant little family talk. I am 

 told that a man and his wife keep up these 

 meetings, at their own expense. God has 

 blessed them, and their income is sufficient 

 so they can afford to do this work in this 

 busy city, without ]>ay. Yet, dear friends, 

 it is not without pay, as the genial light and 

 love in their faces attest. I was obliged to 

 leave before the service closed, but a broth- 

 er followed me to the door, and gave me 

 some tracts, a copy of which I give below, in 

 small type. 



THESE ABE SCRIPTURAL FACTS! 

 Since I may die any moment. I had better reckon 

 the loss and gain just now. 



"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole 

 world and lose his own soul .' " 



the result of choice is eternal! 



Come to the Gospel Meetings 



at the 



NADEAU BASEMENT, 



Corner First and Spring Street. 



Noon prayer-meeting from 12 to 1 daily. 



Salvation meeting every night. 



Sabbath services 10, 3 and 7 p. m. 



To Huber.—Dec. 11 —Papa is now away up 

 in the clouds— in the clouds resting on the 

 Rocky Mountains. They are a great bother 

 just now, for I wanted to see the valley be- 

 low, but I can't see it at all, nor the hills 

 above. May be, however, we shall soon get 

 up to be above the clouds. We are now just 

 about half a mile high ; but in four hours 

 more we shall be over a mile and a quarter 

 right straight up. The railroad book tells us 

 just how many feet high we are every time 

 we stop. 



While we are waiting to get out of the 

 clouds, I want to tell you of something 

 else. Last Saturday we were on Long 

 Beach. It is called so because it is a good 

 many miles long, and the ocean waves have 

 washed it as clean as a stone sidewalk. The 

 water, as it comes rushing and roaring up in 

 great waves, is full of bright sand that 

 shines almost like silver. Well, every wave 

 drops some of this sand; and, what is very 

 funny, you can walk on this clean sand with 

 your best slippers, and not soil them a bit. 

 My friend even drove all over the beach 

 with three of us in the buggy, and neither 

 the wheels nor the horses' hoofs sank a bit ; 



