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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



July 



July 10: — Did you ever ! When we decid- 

 ed to can our raspberries if they would uot 

 bring cts. a quart, we had more orders 

 thau we could rill at 7 ; then we came up to 

 8, and we had more orders than we could 

 till, even at 8. To-day we are charging 10 cts., 

 and the berries do not ripen fast euoughto 

 supply the demand, even at this price. It 

 seems to me here is a lesson, not only for 

 berry-producers, but for honey-producers as 

 well. Do not be in a hurry to sell your pro- 

 duct, and do not make contracts very much 

 ahead. 



THE BUSH LIMA BEANS AT THIS DATE. 



I told you, in our last issue, that the Min- 

 nesota lima beans were all climbing poles. 

 Well, one or two of the Kumerles are now 

 sending up strong shoots, away up into the 

 air, twisting themselves about in a spiral 

 fashion, as if they could do a good job of 

 climbing if they had a chance. Well, they 

 are going to have a chance. Last of all, 

 quite a few of the Henderson bush limas 

 are also sending out snoots to climb poles. 

 Now, friends, let us not be in haste to say 

 hard things about the seedsmen. A quar- 

 ter of an acre of our white kidney beans 

 that have for years behaved themselves ex- 

 actly like a bush bean are sprawling all 

 over the ground, almost exactly like a patch 

 of pole beans. Is it possible that the ex- 

 ceedingly damp weather has started such a 

 rampant growth that the beans are all turn- 

 ing out climbers, and the celery and onions 

 are all sending up seed-stalks ? It certainly 

 looks a good deal that way. 



0aR peMEg. 



God hath put all things under Christ's feet, and 

 gave him to be the head of all things over the 

 church, which is his body, the fullness of him that 

 fllleth all in all.-EpH. 1: 22, 23. 



WHY SHOULD I UNITE WITH THE CHURCH? 



JT?! EFORE taking up the subject indicated 

 Lr in our text, I wish to give you a 

 <: Pi glimpse of a letter just at hand. It is 

 *^ so perfect a supplement to the sermon, 

 that it almost seems as if the two 

 writers had been talking the matter over. 



Mr. Root:— Gleanings for July is received, and I 

 have just finished reading your article on "Love 

 your Neighbors." I want to tell you how I tried to 

 keep Mr. A. from subscribing to Bee Culture. While 

 I was away, some one sent him a swarm of bees in 

 a very old hive. He made two nice hives; and be- 

 fore he could get the bees in one he was taken sick. 

 Knowing how much lie thought of them, I took as 

 good care of them as I could. When he was fully 

 restored in mind, he began to be interested in his 

 bees again. Now, you know we had lost every 

 thing, and a dollar was as big to us as a "cart- 

 wheel," especially as we had been to so much ex- 

 pense during his five months of sickness, and he 

 still unable to attend to business. 



I forgot to tell you in the start, that my husband 

 was an ungodly man, and an unbeliever. As I said, 

 he "got" interested in his bees, and nothing would 

 do but he must send for frames, a smoker, etc. 

 You, I believe, sent him a sample copy of Glean- 

 ings, bo he must subscribe for that. I told him we 



could »<>t afford it, as the bees had cost him enough 

 already. But he did, and the very first number was 

 of untold value to us, especially for the article in 

 " Myself and my Neighbors." It came right in the 

 midst of a great revival. I had been unable to get 

 Mr. A. out to preaching; but before the meetings 

 were over he made a complete surrender to Christ, 

 and is now an earnest worker in the cause. 1 do 

 not think Gleanings comes half often enough for 

 me. DuriDg the meetings there were a good many 

 who could not see their way clear. Gleanings was 

 hauded around like a tract, or religious work, and 

 was quite a help. I think the article in that espe- 

 cial number was, "Am 1 a Christian?" Would that 

 all business could have Christ in it! 1 just felt 

 drawn to you in Christian love on reading the arti- 

 cle in the July number, and thought I must write 

 and tell you how much I enjoy your paper, think- 

 ing it might be a help to you in writing for the 

 August number. Now, Mr. A. has to go off for the 

 summer. He will be in New York in July, August, 

 and September, and I shall have the care and anxi- 

 ety of the business as well as of the family, and I 

 want your prayers that the Lord will be with me, 

 and that 1 may be able to trust him fully to care 

 for me. We had friends to help us in our trouble, 

 and now I think we shall get on nicely. Please ex- 

 cuse this effusion, and don't let it fall into the hands 

 of Blue Eyes, or the printers. Mrs. J. P. A. 



You will notice in the above, that my 

 good friend says, "Do not let this get into 

 the hands of the printers ;" but knowing 

 how such encouraging words as hers incite 

 us all to renewed efforts, I have taken the 

 liberty of disobeying, giving the initials 

 only. You will notice a reference in her 

 letter to an article in Gleanings for May 

 15, entitled, "Am I a Christian? " This ser- 

 mon was followed shortly after by another 

 one, in substance covering the head of this 

 talk to-day— "W T hy should I Unite with the 

 Church? " I have been for some time think- 

 ing of giving this talk also ; and the above 

 letter, telling how it was passed around 

 from one to another to read, has decided me 

 to do so. I am the more glad to give it, be- 

 cause the matter has come up at different 

 times among the readers of Gleanings, 

 and I know there are quite a number who 

 have had quite a bright experience to start 

 with ; and yet, by putting off uniting with 

 the church, they finally begin to delude 

 themselves with the idea that they can be 

 just as good Christians without taking any 

 public stand with the people of God. 



And the Lord added to them day by day those 

 that were being saved.— Acts 2 : 47 (R. V.). 



The translation of the Revised Version is prefera- 

 ble here, because of its more accurate rendering of 

 the closing words of the verse. The Authorized 

 Version translates: "Such as should be saved." But 

 the term in the Greek is a present participle (sodz- 

 om nous), signifying, not future, but present at- 

 tainment—' - Those who wen bi ing saved," or, " Those 

 who were getting themsi Ivr* saved." There is another 

 difference in the two Versions. The Authorized 

 Version, upon the basis of the " Textus Receptus," 

 translates, "And the Lord added to tin church." But 

 there is a difference of opinion whether the words 

 ta ekklesia, " to the church," should be retained or 

 not. They are sustained by good authority, and 

 there is good authority for their rejection. But, 



