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May 



cloud our vision of heaven. Cherished sin, or idle- 

 ness in the Master's service, causes us to doubt. 

 We must watch out for all these depressing causes. 

 1 don't believe in thrashing one boy for what an- 

 other has done, neither do I believe in pommeling 

 ih< soul because of doubts, when often our frail 

 bodies or the " spring fever " or our stubborn wills 

 or our perverse natures are to blame. Let us at all 

 times keep our assurance of sonship bright and 

 clear. It my observation is worth any thing, assur- 

 ance makes the holiest Christians, the happiest 

 Christians, the most active Christians, the firmest 

 Christians. Let us pray God that that assurance 

 may be ours. 



I want to add just a few words concern- 

 ing a single sentence toward the close of the 

 above. The sentence is this : " Cherished 

 sin, or idleness in the Master's service, 

 causes us to doubt.' 1 My experience would 

 indicate that cherished sin is the cause of 

 more doubts than any thing else in this 

 world. One who allows his inclinations to 

 persuade him to do that which he knows is 

 wrong, can never enjoy the peace that 

 Christ gives, aud can never feel satisfied 

 with his Christian experience. A man signs 

 the pledge, and stands up publicly before 

 his fellow-men, and promises, God helping 

 him, to break away from the sinful habit. 

 As time passes, the old appetite asserts it- 

 self so strongly that he turns from his Sav- 

 ior and listens to Satan while he intimates 

 that perhaps it is not well to break off all of 

 a sudden, or something like that. Then he 

 takes just a little, and then tries to hold up 

 his head before Christian people, and to 

 make the world believe that he is enjoying 

 the peace that Christian people ought to en- 

 joy. Poor, foolish, sinful man ! He may 

 deceive his fellow-men, but he can not de- 

 ceive God. It is of no use for him to pray, 

 for we are told in God's holy word- 

 it I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not 

 hear me.— Psalm 6ti: 18. 



Of course, there is no if about it in such a 

 case, for the sinning one knows he is not a 

 Christian. In the same way, one loses his 

 faith in the Savior by just a little dallying 

 with sin, or a little departure from the nar- 

 row and straight path of duty. One quickly 

 loses his peace of mind to a certain extent, 

 and opens the way for doubts and unbelief, 

 by simply letting his mind dwell on the 

 forbidden thing.' Probably we are all of 

 beset by temptations, more or less ; but if 

 we wish to have a bright, clear faith in the 

 Lord Jesus, it behooves us to bestir our- 

 selves when temptation comes, and to turn 

 our backs at once, with the prayer I have so 

 often told you about, " Lord, help, 1 ' at the 

 same time keep saying, " Get thee behind 

 me, Satan." The sin of idleness will also 

 bring these very doubts, as I know by per- 

 sonal experience. The true Christian has 

 too many responsibilities pressing on him to 

 waste a moment. May the Lord bless these 

 words to every reader of Gleanings who 

 has speculated within his own heart as to 

 whether or not he is a Christian. When I 

 am busy, and when I am cherishing no 

 thoughts of sin in any shape or form, then is 

 my faith brightest, and at such times I am 

 always ready to say, with faith and happi- 



ness, the words that 1 started out with, " I 

 know that my Redeemer liveth.'' 



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You will notice that not only the last issue, lint 

 the present one, has been enlarged to 5;.' pages, or 

 16 pages larger than usual. With the great lot of 

 good matter awaiting insertion, we felt obliged to 

 enlarge Gleanings, at least temporarily. What 

 troubles us now is that, even with its present en- 

 largement, there is still a great deal of valuable 

 matter still unused ; and, worse still, it may never 

 be used. As we have said before, it is not always 

 the best matter that finds its way into Gleanings 

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ytJEEN-KEAKING IN PULL COLONIES ALREADY 

 HAVING A REIGNING QUEEN. 



The American Apiculturist for May contains a 

 supplement of s pages, the special feature of whieli 

 is the rearing ol queens in full colonies, without 

 depriving the bees of their queen. This result is 

 accomplished by inducing the swarming impulse 

 artificially, ft is a well-known fact, that bees will 

 rear cells when possessed of a reigning queen, dur- 

 ing the swarming season. In order to make them 

 build cells at other times, friend Alley produces 

 the result artificially by feeding, and bringing the 

 colony into a condition of unusual prosperity. It 

 rather strikes us that the process would be more 

 work than depriving the colony of the queen; but 

 possibly he secures better queens. For full partic- 

 ulars, you are referred toH. Alley, Wenham, Mass. 



A CAUTION TO MAMMAS AND PAPAS. 



I think the following deserves a place as a warn- 

 ing: 



our little four-year-old boy, Harry Huber (named after your 

 own little boy and the blind naturalist), had gone with hi* 

 mother, sistn. and two older brothers, on a visit to " grand- 

 pa's" \ i >ii I 4 1 it . Theboyshad gone down on the hillside, not 

 far from the house, to play and Inml rabbits as they said. 

 The woods had been burned the night before; andin playing 

 around an old log that was still burning, Harry's dress caught 



fire and burned off be i help could reach him. I was sum 



in. .n.-c i iiv i' -ii -i-ai'ii : but « hen I arrived his spirit had depart 

 ed and the bright blue eyes and rosy cheeks of my little bee 

 keeper were parched and charred in death. s. s. i.awino. 



Henderson, Mo., Ma> 9, 1889; 



May the Lord sustain you and your poor afflicted 

 wife, friend L. Perhaps it is not possible to avoid 

 such accidents entirely; but it is. well for parents 



