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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1919 



credit of ending that wholesale gambling 

 institution, but I am informed that Uncle 

 Sam did it by closing the mails against it 

 and against all papers that gave it any 

 l)ublicity. 



Away back in that time there was a 

 gTOup of fanatics — at least a great part of 

 the world called them fanatics — called 

 '• teetotalers" ; but these teetotalers were 

 inspired by the Lord Jesus Christ, and for 

 that idea they bled and died to bring about 

 prohibition. The wealthy brewers laughed 

 them to scom. I have told you all about it 

 again and again ; but, may God be praised, 

 I have been permitted to live long enough 

 to see the United States triumph over in- 

 temperance just as our nation did over the 

 downfall of American slaveiy. Some of 

 you may remind me that the fight is not 

 ({uite over. That is true. But it soon will 

 be over; and not only over for the United 

 States but for the whole wide world. The 

 dear Savior, when he taught us how to 

 pray, gave voice to our first text — " Thy 

 kingdom come, thy will be done." Now, it 

 would be preposterous to think that he 

 asked us to pray for something that would 

 never be granted. God's kingdom is com- 

 ing here on earth, and I believe our good 

 President was exactly right in insisting that 

 if wars are not ended all at once they will 

 very soon be ended, and that no more will 

 bloodshed and murder be necessary to set- 

 tle differences between nations. Not only 

 are the swords going to be beaten into 

 plowshares, and spears into pruning hooks, 

 but the great institutions for the manufac- 

 ture of war implements also w^ill be rele- 

 gated to the junk-heap. These men-of-war 

 that cost millions will be in no way needed. 

 I begin to wonder what we shall do with 

 all the money when peace and prohibition 

 become universal all at once. In the first 

 place, we shall use a lot of it to see that 

 no helpless women or children on the face 

 of the earth die or even suffer from starva- 

 tion. 



And there is something else on the way, 

 and coming fast. I do not mean, friends, 

 flying across the ocean and carrying pas- 

 sengers in air-ships; but I mean these little 

 civil wars that are beginning to crop out 

 between capital and labor. Almost while 

 I dictate these words a car strike is being- 

 settled in the great city of Cleveland. For 

 something like 24 hours not only the elec- 

 tric railway company but all the police 

 seemed unable to protect the carmen so 

 they might caiTy people. All sorts of busi- 

 ness were at a standstill. Many thousands 

 of dollars were lost by this one day's 

 strike. There was violence, and T think a 

 little blood was shed, but no murder, thank 



the Lord. I do not know whether one in- 

 dividual or a company of individuals was 

 instrumental in bringing peace out of the 

 turmoil or mixed-up matters; but it came, 

 and things are going on now quietly as 

 usual. 



I think one lesson that comes to the peo- 

 ple of that city is that this incident enables 

 them to api^reeiate facilities for travel as 

 they never did before. 



We are having much said now by certain 

 peojDle in regard to the coming of the Lord 

 Jesus Christ. Now, maybe I am not ex- 

 actly orthodox, especially in the eyes of 

 certain ones, because I insist that Christ 

 Jesus is coming in spirit and has been com- 

 ing steadily thruout all these years that I 

 have been permitted to look about and see 

 things in this world of ours. Perhaps even 

 the men engaged in warfare do not see it, 

 but nevertheless it is the real spirit of the 

 lowly Nazarene that is bringing about these 

 great strides that are ultimately to fulfill 

 the promise in the text I have quoted, es- 

 pecially the concluding one — " Nation shall 

 not lift up sword against nation, neither 

 shall they learn war any more." 



My good friends, I have made quite a 

 few predictions during the 60 or 65 years 

 that I have looked over God's creation. 

 One of the first things that impressed me 

 was that bee culture, when it came into its 

 own, was going to place honey side by side 

 with milk, butter, eggs, and cheese, to be 

 sold at every corner grocery and every day 

 in the year. I thought it might take a score 

 of years to bring it about; but it took al- 

 most three score. Then when I was delivering 

 ing my talks on chemistry and electricity 

 around in the schoolhouses I said that, in- 

 stead of steam, we should soon run our 

 cars by electricity. Of course I was laugh- 

 ed at. I thought it might be three or four 

 years, but it took forty or fifty. When 

 the Wright brothers first made that won- 

 derful flight and whirled around and came 

 back to the place of starting, I said that 

 the feat would some time be recorded side 

 by side with that of Columbus when he 

 discovered America. That event, too, 

 (flying) might have taken 40 or 50 years to 

 bring it to pass; but this terrible war hur- 

 ried things up so it has taken only 12 or 15 

 years from the first to enable ais now to get 

 across the great water with a flying ma- 

 chine in the matter of hours instead of days 

 or weeks. 



And now with the above introduction let 

 me tell you what I think is going to happen 

 soon; and may the Lord grant that it will 

 not take .30 or 40 years to bring it about. If 

 you will look back you will notice tlu^t God 

 has raised up great men like Washington, 



