1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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to inform them promptly if any postmaster 

 or anybody else tries to hinder it from go- 

 ing through tlie mails. As a matter of 

 course, this paiier attacks the religion of 

 Christ Jesus. Their hatred and bitterness 

 toward every thing pertaining to God's 

 word (■]-()i)s (nit in every column. Ministers 

 and superintendents of Sunday-schools, dea- 

 C(ms of churches, oi- anybody else, and oth- 

 ers of like character who have been led 

 away'.by Satan, are hunted up, pictured 

 t)ut,'and held u]! before the world with 

 jeers, in the effort to make it appear that 

 all professing Christians are hypocrites; 

 that there is no purity, either in man or 

 woman : and the deduction would seem to 

 lie that there does not need to be. In scan- 

 ning its pages I fell to wondering what 

 these ])eople would have if they could have 

 every thing their own way. Suppose the 



people of the , their patrons, 



keepers of grog-shops, managers ot houses 

 of ill fame, and all that crew, were put on 

 an island by themselves, and left without 

 hiw <.r restraint, to have things just as they 

 liked, where would be the end? Does not 

 our text tell the story V— plagues shall come 

 in one day ; death, "mourning, and famine 

 shall follow on. If you want to see the 

 prophec.N verilied. visit \our infirmary or 

 insane-asylum. 



After I cam(^ home I told snuie of my ex- 

 jterience at Ib^Us at the noon service. Our 

 stenographer and proc^i-reader, who also 

 plays the ( rgan, told me. as the service 

 closed. Miat it was in the neighboring town 

 of Howell. Livingston Co.. a few miles ■west 

 of Ho!l> . where they threatened good men 

 if tlie\ attempted to interfere with the 

 whiskytrallic there ; and threats were not 

 all. The lollowing telegram, under date of 

 .March 17. tells the story : '■ The business 

 portion of tiie city is a mass of black ruins." 



In talking with Proi. Cook, he told me 

 that, if I commenced a warfare against the 



, I would have to take the 



chances of having my property burned ; and 

 he said that, in their own State of Michigan, 

 anonymous letters had been sent to men 

 who dared to stand up to their cinivictions 

 of duty, threatening them with the burning 

 of their stores and residences if they went 

 ahead, and the amount of losses had been 

 such as to make even good and brave men 

 tremble. 



Now, my friends, you may be somew'hat 

 surprised, perhaps, when I say that, after 

 thinking and iiraying over "this terrible 

 problem that lies before us. I have come to 

 the conclusion that we are almost all of ns 

 more or less guilty. If we have not started 

 stories that savored a little of impurity, we 

 have perhaps stood b\ and smiled, by way 

 of encouragement to the teller, even if we 

 have not said any thing. We have heard 

 such talk as 1 have mentioned, and liave, 

 like -my poor self, been so startled and 

 shocked that we h:\\e not even opened our 

 months in protest. May God forgive my 

 lack of courage I Some of us who are 

 church-members, and, may be. deacons, 

 have been in the habit of repeating things 

 of this kind (when no women were around), 

 just because there was something funny 



about it or it was a rich joke. May be we 

 have done it wdien a child stood by, or, say, 

 a young man in his teens, or may be a 

 yoiing married man. Perhaps lie iias re- 

 peated it because he has heard it from Mr. 

 Si) and So ; and then it may be (but I tru.st 

 but rarely) these funny things are passed 

 about among the other sex. May (iod help 

 us all to set a better example I Some years 

 ago a new convert, a young friend of mine, 

 and a boy who was trying, as I veiily l»elieve, 

 to he pure in word as well as action— told me 

 that a. man in my employ was continually 

 telling impure stories anrl jokes. This man 

 was a professing Christian. I went to him 

 about it. and he with downcast face admit- 

 ted that he had got into the habit. I talked 

 to him pretty severely, and was afraid he 

 Would be offended ; but although he felt 

 hurt, he did not resent it. Since then he 

 has at different times thanked me, and as- 

 sured me that the results of my plain but 

 kind reproof had brought him nearer to the 

 throne of grace. These things had begun 

 to get between him and his Savior. Soon 

 after, he came to our young people's prayei-- 

 meeting, and took part. My friend, you do 

 not need to scan the columns of such pa- 

 pers as I have mentioned, to be sure that 

 this thing kills spirituality from the heart 

 of any man or woman. 



I'd hi: ((iiitiiitied next issur i)i Our Humus. 



Cf>.VDUCTED BY EKNEST B. ROOT. 



xo F(»rL nuooi). and evkry colony win- 



TEKED. 



If- S T had earnestly hoped, and so stated 

 ^1^ in the last issue, no colonies are lost 



j^ by wintering up to date. I can hard- 

 ■^^ ly think this success is altogether at- 

 tributable to a favorable winter, or to 

 the chaff hive, though these two factors 

 have a great deal to do in successful winter- 

 ing. I am of the oi)inion, that the result in 

 our own case was owing largely to the fact 

 that we did the reri/ best we knew hon-. know- 

 ing that the colonies were weak, and there- 

 fore needed special care if we exi)ecte(l to 

 have any come out in the spring. C)ur apia- 

 rist, M)-. K., on account of the death of his 

 father-in-law. was called away to take care 

 of the farm last fall. This made it necessa- 

 ry for me to go into the apiary and give it 

 moie of my personal attention than former- 

 ly, at such "spare hours as I could find from 

 my work in the office. As it was impossi- 

 ble for me to do all the work as I wanted to 

 have it done, I called upon one of our most 

 trusty men to serve in the capacity of apia- 

 rist. We together, as our reader.s will re- 

 member, last year put the bees into wintei' 

 ([uarters in the evening by lantern light and 

 moonlight, and in the rain. .Vlt hough Mr. 

 S. had then had but little (U" no exiie-ience 

 with bees. I knew that he would do just ex- 

 actly as I told him. While I think there is a 

 great deal of credit due to Mr. S. tor the 

 carefid way in which he followed my direc- 

 tions, I think there is just a little credit due 

 me for doing myself and telling him to do 



