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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Only those who have been out on the great 

 ocean can full}' realize what a stupendous 

 miracle this was. No wonder the disciples 

 " marveled " and said, " What manner of 

 man is this, that even the winds and the seas 

 obey him?" 



Now listen to your old friend when he 

 tries to assure you that the present wars, 

 intemperance, and crime are all- subject in 

 like manner to his command, and that "there 

 is no other name under heaven " that can 

 quell this boisterous world than that of 

 Christ Jesus, who spoke peace to the trou- 

 bled seas ages ago. And this is the message 

 that God's appointed " Gideon," Billy Sun- 

 day, is bringing, and yet the whole world 

 marvels to see this one little man the means 

 of bringing peace and joy into the homes of 

 untold thousands, and of making a great 

 city like Denver, Colorado, " vote dry " in 

 spite of all the trained minions of Satan 

 with their ill-gotten millions. 



BILLY SUNDAY, THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE, 

 ETC. 



To give you a brief glimpse of the gxeat 

 work that is now going on to usher in God's 

 kingdom, I make two clippings — one from 

 the Sunday School Times and the other 

 from the Baltimore Sun. I verily believe 

 Sunday would end the war if he were given 

 a chance, and if all good people would stand 

 by him, as they seem to be doing now, 

 wherever he goes. 



To make a state or a nation dry requires votes. 

 Votes cannot be secured until sentiment is ripe. It 

 is by the creation of dry sentiment that the evangel- 

 ist renders extraordinary service to his country. 



In the recent struggle for prohibition in Ohio, 

 more than five hundred thousand dry votes were 

 secured. Mr. Sunday has conducted many extensive 

 campaigns in that state. And it is perhaps the most 

 thoroughly organized state in the Union from the 

 Anti-saloon League standpoint. Wayne B. Wheeler, 

 Superintendent of the League, recently said: 



" Billy Sunday attacks the liquor business in the 

 most aggressive, bold, and defiant manner of any 

 man I have heard in years. Many people are arous- 

 ed to action only when a speaker hits an evil hard, 

 then jumps on it and literaUy pulverizes it with ar- 

 gument and invective and impassioned oratory. Billy 

 Sunday makes the people feel that the liquor-traffic 

 is the worst crime of our civilization. Some of them 

 may cool off; but many stick, and they furnish good 

 fighters in the ranks of any organization that is 

 making an effective and aggressive fight against the 

 saloon." 



On November 3, 1914, Colorado voted dry by a 

 majority of 11,000. Two years ago the same state 

 voted wet by a majority of 40,000. Chief among 

 the elements that entered into this campaign was 

 doubtless the well-nigh perfect organization of the 

 Anti-saloon League, reaching to every voting district 

 in the state, together with the hearty co-operation of 

 all other anti-liquor agencies. 



Then came Billy Sunday, arriving in the state at 

 the psychological moment. In .Tune he conducted a 

 campaign at Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, 

 where the wet majority two years ago was 2700. 

 The dry majority last year was 4000. For six weeks 



previous to the election Sunday stirred up Denver. 

 The dry vote there was increased from 11,000 two 

 years ago to 29,000 last year. 



" There are little frizzled-top sissies not yet sprout- 

 ing long dresses who know more about vice than did 

 their great-grandmothers when they were 75 years 

 old. 



" The girl who drinks will abandon her virtue. 

 What did Methuselah know about smoking cigar- 

 ettes? 



" If any one ever tells you that you can't be vir- 

 tuous and enjoy good health, I brand him as a low, 

 infamous, black-hearted liar." 



SUNDAY'S CONVERTS 1184. 



At the morning service 157 publicly acknowledged 

 their faith in Almighty God in answer to Sunday's 

 summons for converts. At the afternoon service 

 Sunday ripped off his collar and tore open his shirt, 

 and with the perspiration dripping from his face and 

 arms he lashed, hounded, quartered, and flayed the 

 thousands of sinning men seated before him until 

 he stood before them triumphantly extending God's 

 blessing as they rushed up to the pulpit for forgive- 

 ness. There were 551 converts this afternoon and 

 476 to-night. 



Morning, afternoon, and night services were prac- 

 tically continuous. Thousands were gathered before 

 the tabernacle doors at daylight; thousands remained 

 inside the immense auditorium for the afternoon 

 service, and thousands remained after the afternoon 

 service for the night service, l^one stayed away on 

 account of the rain. — Baltimore Sun, Jan. 18. 



Illllllllllliiill 



PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN. 



I have been not only praying for, but 

 expecting, something like what is outlined 

 below, which I clip from the Christian Her- 

 ald of Jan. 20. May the Holy Spirit go 

 with it. 



CONGRESS TAKES UP ■\VORLD-PEACE. 



On Jan. 2 Hon. Charles F. Curry, of California, 

 introduced in the House of Representatives the first 

 measure ever placed before an American Congress in 

 the interest of world-peace. It was in the form of a 

 joint resolution which reads as follows: 



" JOINT RESOLUTION 



" Authorizing and empowering the President to 

 invite all nations to send delegates to a convention 

 to provide for disarmament, for the creation of an 

 international legislature, an international court, an 

 international army and navy police, and for other 

 purposes. 



" Resolved by the Senate and House of Represent- 

 atives in the United States of America in Congress 

 assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby 

 authorized and empowered to invite all nations to 

 send accredited delegates to an international conven- 

 tion to frame a constitution for submission to the 

 nations for ratification, said constitution among other 

 things to provide for an international legislature to 

 enact laws for the government of the intercourse 

 between nations; to provide for an international 

 court to adjudicate the differences between nations; 

 to provide for the disarmament of all nations; to 

 provide for an international army and navy to be 

 used as international police, and when so ordered 

 to enforce the decrees of the international court ; to 

 provide that each nation shall be protected in its 

 right to retain and maintain its own form of govern- 

 ment, and to exercise exclusive authority over its 

 internal affairs; and to provide further that each 

 nation shall be permitted to maintain an army and 

 navy only sufficiently large to police its own terri- 

 tory." 



On January 5 the same resolution was introduced 

 in the Senate by Hon. Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma. 



