1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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into the church and Sunday-school and Endeavor 

 Society went away I had some fears that John 

 might slip back; but my fears were groundless. 

 He held fast to his religion all the same, and stood 

 by the new pastor. He exhorted everybody right 

 and left to come to the " Lamb of God who taketh 

 away the sin of the world." 1 wish, dear friends, 

 I could stop right here and not tell the rest. But 

 this story is going to have another chapter about 

 going down " the way to hell." I have told you 

 in times past that we might find heaven here on 

 earth; and now I want to tell you it is also true 

 that we may find hell here on earth as well as 

 heaven. Poor John ! in that one short winter he 

 got a taste of hell that will probably cling to him 

 and follow him through life. During that winter 

 a bad woman or girl a little older than himself 

 came in his way. He was from the country, as 

 she well knew, and comparatively innocent and 

 unsuspecting. After a brief acquaintance with 

 this woman he learned to snxiear. Do you wonder 

 at it } When I found him and pointed out to 

 him the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin 

 of the world he was in trouble. He listened to 

 me like a drowning man catching at a straw, and, 

 may God be praised, it was something more than 

 a straw that I had to oflter. I dare not put on 

 paper the revelation that came to me later. While 

 John's sin was forgiven and blotted out, the con- 

 sequences of his wrong-doing during that one win- 

 ter will probably follow him through life. He 

 consulted a physician, but it was too late. He is 

 now in an asylum for the insane, and the doctor 

 thinks it is doubtful if he ever recovers his rea- 

 son.* But we are praying for him, and we know 

 that the power of Christ Jesus to ^^ cleanse and 

 save " is away beyond and above all that all the 

 doctors of the world with all their knowledge 

 have ever yet accomplished. 



Now, my friends, can you not agree with me 

 that God knows best when he says, "Thou shalt 

 not commit adultery," and that the words of our 

 text are not at all too severe when he says that 

 " her house is the way to hell, going down to the 

 chambers of death " 'i 



GREAT NAVIES TO MAINTAIN PEACE; MORE ABOUT 

 IT — SEE PAGE 1156. 



I clip the following from the Omaha World- 

 Herald: 



BUILD UP SCHOOLS, NOT BATTLESHIPS. 



Crookston, Minn, Sept. 17. — " If I had my way I would 

 build a couple of warships less, yet one would be enough ; and I 

 would take the $5,000,000 which it would cost, and with it con- 

 struct 1000 schools of agriculture in the United States," declared 

 James J. Hill, Chairman of the Board of Direction of the Great 

 Northern Railway, at the dedication of Stephen Hall, an agricul- 

 tural institution, liere to-day. Mr. Hill stated that, with the 

 present birth-rate, the country will not be able to take care of its 

 own people, let alone the prospect of exporting grains to Europe, 

 unless the farmers study the science of agriculture and learn how 

 to raise more bushels to the acre than they are able to do now. 



I wish to express a hearty amen to the senti- 

 ment expressed in the above. May God help us, 

 especially those of us who profess to be trying to 

 live under the motto, " In God we Trust." May 



* Permit me to say here in this'footnote that the saloon busi- 

 ness, especially that part of it where they exhibit to boys in- 

 decent pictures, and encourage the work of bad women, has more 

 to do in filling our insane-asylums and infirmaries than any other 

 one thing in our nation or in the world; and may God be praised 

 for the many signs that these places of filth and abomination will 

 soon be banished from our land. 



that same God in whom we are trusting help us 

 to teach our children how to raise ^Lvheat in or- 

 der to relieve the starvation that is still going on 

 in this wide world, instead of building more 

 battleships 



With the banishment of saloons from the face 

 of the earth, the need of battleships to preserve 

 peace throughout the world will be very much 

 lessened. I wonder if this has occurred to our 

 good President while he is so vehement in urging 

 the enlargement of our navy. 



By the way, I wonder if it occurred to the 

 World- Herald that they have Bible authority for 

 the position they take. Look at this: "Wisdom 

 .is better than weapons of war." — Ecc. 9:18. 



Here is something more on the same subject: 



"wisdom is BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR. " 



We take pleasure in submitting the following 

 from the Chief Justice of the United States, which 

 we copy from the American Missionary -. 



JUSTICE BREWER ON THE GLORY OF THE NATION. 



" The glory of this nation is not in its increase in armament, 

 but in its present course of sweet peace. Well do I know that 

 many of our greatest thinking men contend that this nation should 

 build up a great navy and a mammoth army in order to maintain 

 its prominent and respectable place among the great nations of 

 the world. I have no hesitancy in saying that our nation is mak- 

 ing a grave mistake in its effort to build up a monster navy. It 

 is uncalled for.' We don't need it. We are 3000 miles from the 

 nearest nation, and there is no danger of being molested." 



Health Notes 



NUTS AND APPLES. 



I have several times spoken of the pleasure I 

 experienced in having one or more apple-trees 

 around the home, having apples that ripen from 

 the very earliest until the very latest of the long- 

 keeping sorts, and seeing the earlier ones get lus- 

 cious right under your own eye where you can 

 pick them daily from the trees. Well, just late- 

 ly I have been having nuts from my own nut- 

 tree. When we commenced to build our house 

 there was a little shellbark hickory close to the 

 kitchen door. I wanted to cut it down, but Mrs. 

 Root said, " No, no! " Well, even after the tree 

 got big the nuts were so small and few in num- 

 ber that I again suggested having it cut down. 

 Mrs. Root said she loved that particular tree as 

 much as if not more than any other tree on the 

 place. Well, two or three years ago I com- 

 menced having a compost-heap (in order to pre- 

 pare soil for my greenhouse) under and around 

 this hickory-tree. I hauled sod from the road- 

 side, and chopped them up with old well-rotted 

 stable manure. Then I got several loads of 

 sweepings from the streets, and cut it down and 

 shoveled it in, and worked it over and over until 

 I had nice potting soil for the greenhouse and for 

 my flower-bed, and the children's and grandchild- 

 ren's around their homes. This summer I placed 

 one of the little poultry-houses, of which I show- 

 ed you a picture, under this hickory-tree; and in 

 order to test the sprouted-oats theory I leveled off 

 my compost-heap and sowed the oats in the rich 

 soil at intervals, letting the chickens help all they 

 liked. The result was (or is) that the ground 

 all around under that hickory-tree is a rich mel- 

 low compost, constantly stirred over aad over by 



