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having " relieved " your mind. Let it go 

 without " relieving/' Sny just what will do 

 good and lielp the matter, and nothing more. 

 If somebody has gone and done something 

 wrong, be careful to decide, before you say 

 any thing, what will help the matter ; and 

 what will not help the matter, let go. If the 

 same individual is to do the same work 

 again, he needs to l)e carefully instructed 

 not to fall into the same error the second 

 time. If, however, as is often the case, it is 

 something he may never have to do again at 

 all, accept The job as it is, and say nothing 

 more about it. Never hurt anybody's feel- 

 ings by complaining or criticising, nnless 

 something is somewhere to be gained by it. 

 The fact that you will /'«>/ better for having 

 relieved your mind is not to enter into the 

 consideration at all. 



Is it not true, that the reason why we fail 

 to accomplish in a day what we have pro- 

 posed is often because we have wasted time 

 in the way I have mentioned? Instead of 

 liaving labored steadily for Christ's sake, 

 some selfish plan or selfish appetite or pas- 

 sion got in the way, and we stopped to in- 

 didge in that. Is not this the reason why 

 we don't prosper in our occupation V The 

 world sees and recognizes this spirit, and 

 the world pays a high premium for^t. Not 

 many of us are called upon to labor as does 

 Mr. "Moody, Ilev. Sam Jones, or Rev. Sam 

 Small. The world pays homage to them be- 

 cause they are laboring for Christ's sake; 

 and the world will pay deference and hom- 

 age to you, my friend, if you are working 

 patiently and solely for Christ's sake, in 

 your field of labor." I^et me give yoi; an il- 

 lustration. 



The greatest oatmeal establishment in the 

 world was lately located in our neighboring 

 town of Akron, but it has recently been 

 burned down. The proprietor, Mr. Schu- 

 macher, has for many years had a standing 

 litigation and expensive lawsuit with a Mr. 

 Seiberling, the proprietor of one of the great 

 reaper and mower works in Akron. Well, 

 Mr. Seiberling had a strike among his hands. 

 Seventy left in a body. lie employed more 

 , to take their places, but the league to which 

 the seventy belonged threatened any board- 

 ing-hor'.S3 that gave them lodgings, and for 

 a time it seemed as if the diificulty of get- 

 ting a boarding-house that would dare defy 

 the league was of itself going to prevent Mr. 

 Seiberling from filling their places and go- 

 ing on with his business. At this crisis Mr. 

 Schumacher came forward, told his old and 

 bitter enemy that a certain hotel which he 

 owned was at his service. " Bring on your 

 men, neighbor Seiberling; and if we haven't 

 accommodations enough for all of them, we 

 will make arrangements so they can have 

 comfortable places to stay, that you may go 

 on with your work." 



Mr. Schumacher is a Christian, and did it 

 for Christ's sake. No doubt he rejoiced in 

 hnding an opportunity of doing his old ene- 

 my a kindness, even though that enemy had 

 persecuted and wronged him for many years. 

 Perhaps some of you may think that friend 

 Schumacher was carrying the matter too far; 

 but let me tell you that such ways of doing 

 have been prospered to such an extent that 



he w\as worth, before the fire, over a million 

 of dollars, and the money has all been made 

 by honest business in the "town where he first 

 settled down when he came from Germany, 

 a poor boy, without friends, home, or mon- 

 ey. Now, then, was not his course in help- 

 ing his enemy a short cut compared with the 

 usual way of'doing business? I do not know 

 that the two are now friends ; but I feel 

 pretty well satisfied that they are on friendly 

 terms, and probably always will be, to the 

 ends of their lives. 



A great many times, when we have difil- 

 culty something must be said. Explana- 

 tions must be made, and it is well to come to 

 an understanding with your opponent ; but, 

 dear friends, I speak from experience when 

 I tell you to beware how you talk too inudi. 

 Let your words be few, and let them be for 

 Christ's sake. Look out, or Satan will get 

 in, even at the last moment, and upset it all. 

 I have known many dithculties to be fairly 

 settled, when a word too much raked it all 

 up again, and the fires of passion waged 

 stronger than ever. While I write these 

 words I feel myself weak and frail, and I 

 would say helpless, were it not for the 

 "■ Rock that is higher than I." When we 

 are working for his sake he has promised to 

 befriend us ; nay, more : 



And every one that hath forsaken houses, or 

 brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, 

 or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall I'e- 

 ceive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting- 

 life. -Matt. 19:39. 



SWARMING, AND AMOUNT OF IN- 

 CREASE. 



HOW I'KIEND FRANCE MANAGES WHEN SWARMING 

 TIME COMES. 



fOU ask how much increase we make. I will 

 g-ivc you the number from our last two 

 years' increase. Spring of 1884, 287 colonies; 

 fall, 455; 168 increase. Spring- of 1885, 330 col- 

 onies; fall, 510; 190 increase. So you see we 

 don't nearly double the stock. We work for honey, 

 and keep all as strong as we can, and keep them 

 from swarming. 



When they begin to work in the spring, if we have 

 any weak colonies we strengthen them up from the 

 strong ones by giving them brood— gettingalls(»-0H!/ 

 before we make now colonies. There is no danger 

 of swarms coming off until there is a good flow of 

 honey; usually about the 10th of June the white 

 clover will begin to give a little honey, and if the 

 bees are all strong at that time, we begin to divide. 

 Take two brood-combs from each strong colony, 

 and put them into an empty hive; leave the queen 

 in the old colony; give the old hive two empty 

 combs, if we have them: if we have no spare combs, 

 we give them empty frames to build combs in. 

 Now take two brood-combs from another old colony, 

 and put them with the lirst two in the empty hive; 

 take two more combs of brood from another old 

 colony and put with the four. We now have si.v 

 brood-combs in our new colony; this will make a 

 very good beginning. W'ith each pair of combs tak- 

 en from the old colonies, take from one to two 

 quarts of bees. If in the morning, when the old 

 bees arc mostly at home, take two quarts; but if 

 the bees are working as strong as they usually are 

 in the middle of the day, one quart will do, as the 



