August, 1919 



THEIJM ;ire 

 some people, 

 and I b e - 

 lieve some good 

 ones, who insist 

 that the world is 

 not grt'owing bet- 

 ter. During the 

 recent great war 

 they declared 

 wars are going 

 to continue and 

 gTOw worse and 

 worse until 

 Jesus comes to 

 establish the 

 new heavens and 

 a new earth. A 

 few days ago 

 my youngest 

 daughter, Mrs. 

 Carrie Belle 

 Boyden, said to 

 " Father, I am 

 the blues. I 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



OUR HOMES 



A. I. ROOT 



Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as 

 it is in heaven. — Matt. 6:10. 



Thou Shalt not kill. — ExoDus 20:13. 



JJation shall not lift up sword against nation, 

 noilher shall they learn war any more. — Isaiah 2:4. 



Of the increase of his govea-nment and peace 

 there shall be no end. upon the throne of David, 

 and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establisli 

 it with judgment and with justice from henceforth 

 even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of host.s will 

 perform this. — Isaiah 9:7. 



me something like this : 

 like you. I never have 

 am always hopeful." Dear 

 friends, was not that a rare compliment, 

 and one that came from very near " home " 

 too? Ever since that time I have been 

 thinking- it over and over, and wondering 

 if the dear child had got it right. I call her 

 '* dear cJiild " even if she is the mother of 

 two bouncing and bloom,ing little girls. 

 Well, CaiTie Belle was pretty nearly right, 

 so far as she has been acquainted with her 

 father; but before she was born — before 

 the dear Lord lifted me out of the " miry 

 clay " — I did have the blues — yes, terrible 

 blues — only such blues as no human being 

 can ever exiDerience, who has not been in 

 the clutches of the great adversary of hu- 

 manity. Let me digress. 



Tlie first record we have of murder is 

 where Cain killed his brother Abel; and it 

 begins to crop out thru the scriptures all 

 along thru the history of humanity. Esau 

 declared he was going to kill his brother 

 after his brother had cheated him out of his 

 inheritance — that is, after the good father, 

 Isaac, should be dead and out of the way. 

 We are all very glad, however, that Jacob 

 repented and begged pardon, and the two 

 brothers became friends again some 20 

 years afterward. 



Well, the Bible makes a record of worse 

 murders; and I am afraid that, as the cen- 

 turies i^assed, the wars became greater and 

 greater and worse and worse, until the one, 

 world-wide war, or almost that, such as we 

 have just witnessed. I am not veiy well 

 versed in history ; but so far as I know this 

 recent war eclipses all of former date. I 

 liope it is true that no other war on record 

 resulted in the death of seven millions of 



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men on one side 

 and about that 

 many on the 

 otlier. Some of 

 our readers, per- 

 haps, can tell 

 just how many 

 millions were 

 lost all together. 

 Let me now di- 

 gress again. 



When I was 

 old enough to 

 begin to read 

 the papers 1 

 learned with 

 much sorrow 

 that not only 

 men and women 

 but boys and 

 .girls were 

 bought and sold 

 iiere in the United States; and if a young 

 woman happened to t)e remarkable "good"- 

 looking, and some vicious man wanted her 

 (no matter for what purpose), if he had 

 the money to " pay the price," she was his 

 to do as he pleased with her, just the same 

 as his horses and cattle were his. While 

 this continued my whole soul rebelled 

 against it ; and when some of the good pro- 

 fessors of Oberlin College were arrested 

 and put in jail because they assisted run- 

 away slaves in getting- to Canada I felt the 

 impulse of war in my own heart — that is, 

 if nothing hut war would put a stop to it. 

 Well, God sent a good man to stand before 

 Satan's emissaries and declare that no hu- 

 man being should be held in bondage and 

 bought and sold any more. This celebrat- 

 ed " Emancipation Proclamation " resound- 

 ed thruout the world, and it inaugurated a 

 new ei-a. But it cost the man his'life. He 

 died a mai-tyr. I said something of the 

 kind in the prayer meeting some clays ago, 

 and asked if there was any spot on the face 

 of the earth just now, where human beings 

 are bouglit and sold. Nobody seemed to 

 know of any such place; but somebody 

 finally suggested that in the wilds of Africa 

 they have just discovered a small spot 

 where there is something of the kind going 

 on. If true, the march of the missionaries 

 will very soon put an end to it. If there are 

 still unexplored wilds where such heathen- 

 ism exists, the new method of navigating the 

 air will help us to carry the " glad gospel " 

 into such places. 



Well, after slavery was put " down and 

 out " a protest was made against the great 

 lotteries — the Louisiana State Lottery, es- 

 pecially, a great institution with the color- 

 ed people. I do not know who had the 



