1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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view of this lovely valley, Los Alamos, where I now 

 am living. Mrs. Hilton. 



Los Alamos, Cal., April, 183-1. 



Mrs. II., I thank you for your suggestions 

 in the opening of your article. Last even- 

 ing our pastor told us at the prayer-meeting, 

 that some great sculjjtor always saw an an- 

 gel in a block of marble. Now, we may, if 

 we choose, see something good, if not angel- 

 ic, in humanity all around us ; or we may be 

 so selUsh and uncharitable as to see nothing 

 but something to lliul fault with. Which is 

 the better way V We may, as Pope says, see 



" Sermons in trees, bonks in running brooks. 

 And jrood in every thing." 



And do you notice how this thought runs 

 into the one I have expressed on another 

 page y The prophet Isaiah seems to be tell- 

 ing how the world ought to look to one who 

 loves God. See page 1270. And again,— 



Let the fields rejoice, and all (hat is therein. Then 

 shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence 

 of the Lord, because he cometh to judge t tie earth. 

 —J. Chkon. 16: 3^,33. 



YOUNG PEOPLE'S MEETIISGS. 



A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM."-ISA. 11.0. 



GENTLEMAN in talking to a school, once ask- 

 ed the children to guess at what age he flrst 

 began teaching school. They guessed at 

 ages from 17 to 30; but he surprised them by saying 

 at the age of seven. At that age his father was a 

 missionary in Jamaica, and his sister was teaching. 

 His sister being sick, he supplied her place for a 

 little time, and in recitation he said he had each one 

 " toe the mark " by marking a straight line for their 

 feet. That gentleman is now making a straight path 

 with his feet by stepping in line wherever there is 

 work for him to do, and has dedicated himself and 

 his money to the Lord. Ho prospers, and the work 

 he is engaged in prospers, reminding us that the 

 Lord honors those who honor him. We may not be 

 called to lead great minds; but whatever we do in- 

 fluences others to a greater or less extent. You 

 know it is said, that "a little child shall lead them." 

 So let us see in our leading, that we find the green 

 pastures. Let us not run in evil ways, for fear some 

 one might follow. Let us not follow those who 

 start in the wrong direction; and for fear we might 

 be led astray, let us take Christ for a leader, and 

 say, "Where he leadeth we will follow." 



I wonder if any of the young folks who read 

 Gleanings have a meeting all their own. In our 

 city we have one, where from 50 to 75 attend. We 

 read and sing and pray and talk; and if any one has 

 ideas to exchange, or thoughts to suggest, as to the 

 best mode of conducting these meetings, or promot- 

 ing the interest in any way, wo think it would be 

 quite profitable. And i f you have no such meetings, 

 I think if you will ask for some one to lead you, 

 that you will be as greatly interested in (he success 

 of your meeting as our young folks are. 



We have our city districted off, and two leaders 

 appointed for each district ; so it is not very bur- 

 densome for each to see to the number in his re- 

 spective district. We are just organizing, and hope 

 to increase the interest and number. E. M. 



Anderson, Ind. 



We thank you for your suggestion, friend 

 E. M. The work you have spoken of is 



much like that in our own town ; and since 

 these young people's meetings have Increas- 

 ed from an attendance of thiee or four 

 to a hundred or more, the inlluence on our 

 town of perhaps 2000 population has been 

 wonderfnl. 



Evei-y girl or boy, under IS 

 aere. who writes a letter for this depart- 



ineilt, CONTAINING SOMK VAI.VABLK FACT. 



NOT (iKM-.UAI.I.Y KNOWN, ON UKES o ( OTHER 



MATTKKs, will icci'ivc one nf l>:ivi(l Cook's 

 exoi-lU'iil llve-cint Suiulav-si-h(ii>l books. 

 Many of tlicsr liuuk.-i contain the same 

 matter that you linil in Sunday-school 

 books oostinK from Sl.OO to $1.50. If you 

 have had one or more books, give us the 

 that we may not send the same 

 We have now in stock, six different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft, 



fl|HEUE is a very great lot of letters this 

 month, children, and I have crossed 

 — out -a great part of those we have used, 

 and a good many that I have not been able 

 to use at all, and there is still a larger num- 

 ber that we shall not get to at all, probably. 

 Now, as I do not Avant to disappoint you by 

 not seeing your letters in print, I think I 

 will not talk much myself this time, so here 

 we go for the little letters. 



LETTER FKOM A 6-YEAR OLD BEE-GIRL. 



I am a little girl six years old. I go to school and 

 read in the First Reader. Efpie Bell Henry. 

 Gratten, Kent Co., Mich., Feb. 11, 1884. 



A SMALL LETTER FROM A LITTLE GIRL. 



I am a little girl years old. Papa keeps bees. I 

 have a little brother two years old. Please send me 

 a book. Jennie Kikkp.\trick. 



Sandwich, 111., March 18, 1881. 



A PRINTED LETTER FROM A SIX-YEAR-OLD. 



I am a little boy five years old. We take Glean- 

 ings. I go to Sabbath-school. Brother said he 

 would help me print a letter, so I could get a book. 



Hanover, Mich., Jan. 6, 1881. Clyde E. Hall. 



HOW TO MAKE HONEY VINEGAR; FROM A SIX-YEAR 

 OLD. 



I will tell you how to make honey vinegar. Wo put 

 honey in rain water, and let it stand till it is sour. 

 Clement Brichneh. 

 Dccorah, Iowa, March 22, 1884. 



A SHORT LETTER FROM MATIE. 



Papa has 75 swarms of bees in the cellar. I like 

 honey to eat. I have a pet bird named Nellie, and a 

 pet hen named Edith. This is my flrst letter. 



Matie M. Talcott, age 8. 



Owego. N. Y., March 8, 1884. 



