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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



But a little time back, and great wars have 

 been waging between nations. Has not the 

 time come for a difierent line of work to be 

 inaugurated, even as Jesns said to his disci- 



Eles, " I am not come to destroy men's lives, 

 ut to save them " I* It is true, we are told 

 our wages will be less if we encourage 

 foreign immigration ; and it is said, too, 

 that we shall be the losers, if we trade and 

 traffic too freely back and forth ; but, dear 

 friends, if what we lose is going to be their 

 gain, shall we be losers to any very great ex- 

 tent? Jesus said, right after the text we have 

 before us, 'Tor whosoever will save his life 

 shall lose it." Again, "• For what is a man 

 profited if he shall gain the whole world, 

 and lose his own soulV" 



I know I shall awaken bitter opposition 

 from some by recommending that we break 

 down the walls of exclusion, and let the 

 ichole world have a fair chance with us, and 

 I would even give them tlie benetit of what 

 we have achieved in the way of skill and ex- 

 periment. Who gave us this, our country? 

 who gave us our sons and daughters ? who 

 gave us our privileges? and who was it that 

 said, "'Give, and it shall be given unto you, 

 good measure, pressed down, shaken togeth- 

 er, and running over''? 



A great many times people lose greatly by 

 being afraid, or by their narrow-minded self- 

 ishness. Many of you will remember the 

 time when the poor people broke into the 

 factories and destroyed valuable machinery, 

 because they thought it was going U) throw 

 them out of employment. l)id it? To be 

 sure, not. It has seemed to me sometimes 

 really funny to watch a man who is so 

 eager for doing Christ's work in the way of 

 helping everybody, and helping, too, with- 

 out pay, to tliink how he is blessed and 

 prospered, and the way in which every 

 thing seems to tumble by accident, as it 

 were, right into his hands. It is not ac- 

 cident, however, for it is the f ultillment of 

 the promise in tlie first Psalm— ''And what- 

 soever he doeth shall prosper." It has 

 sometimes seemed as though (iod were look- 

 ing up people whom it was safe to intrust 

 with great gifts ; and when he found such a 

 one wlio would just turn over the good things 

 to his fellow-men as fastas he received them, 

 and who would distribute them judiciously, 

 where most needed, and where the most 

 good would be done, it has seemed to me as 

 though God delighted in continually pour- 

 ing out good on such a one, and, in fact, the 

 Bible says he will. Do you not remember? 

 " Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of 

 hosts, if I will not open you the windows of 

 heaven, and pour you out a blessing that 

 there shall not be room to receive it." 



A person can not be a Christian, and have 

 a desire in his heart to overtop others— to 

 get above tliem and look down upon them. 

 When an individual does this he cripples 

 himself. Wlien neighborhoods or towns get 

 into that way, tliey liave lost sight of the in- 

 junction and" teachings of the Master; and 

 when nations or continents shall devote 

 tliemselves to the npbuildingand enriching of 

 themselves, without regard to other nations, 

 they have forgotten the spirit of our Pilgrim 

 Fathers, and they shall sooner or later suf- 



fer by it. At our Centennial Exposition in 

 1870 I was rejoiced at the kindly and Chris- 

 tian spirit manifested to the inhabitants of 

 every clime, and I rejoiced to see the will- 

 ingness with which our people taught all 

 that they knew how to teach, and by the 

 general exchange of kindly words, kindly of- 

 tices, and kindly feelings. 



I am looking forward to my visit to the 

 New-Orleans Exposition with a thrill of de- 

 hght, because I expect to see this welcome 

 extended still further. I expect to see the 

 South and North willing to swap and divide 

 — willing to let bygones be bygones, and look 

 only to the glorious future and God. We 

 have no time to quarrel ; we have not time 

 to fight for our rights ; in fact, the time is 

 fast coming when the people who invade our 

 rights, and take that which does not belong 

 to them, will feel so much ashamed of it 

 that they will, if let alone, carry back the 

 stolen property, of their own accord. You 

 may think I am getting a little visionary 

 here; but if you keep your eyes open a lit- 

 tle, and watch' for it, you will see symptorhs 

 of the good time coming. I have before 

 spoken of the fact, that a few years ago we 

 used to erect stone walls around our prem- 

 ises to keep out pilferers. Not only tbat, 

 we put sliarp spikes and broken glass boitles 

 along tlie top, and after all of our pains and 

 fuss had our things stolen after all. The 

 iron spikes are all gone now ; the stone 

 walls have tumbled down and are carried 

 away, and a great mtmy of our homes have 

 nothing at all aroimd them, and yet our 

 strawberries and grapes and dwarf pears ri- 

 pen and remain on the vines or trees within 

 a yard or two of passers-by, and yet they are 

 unmolested. Are the street urchins afraid 

 of our jails and prisons? No, they do not 

 want owY fruits — not because they have lost 

 their appetite for sweet things, biit because 

 they do not belong to them, t once asked 

 an expert pomologist his opinion of a fine- 

 looking apple I handed him. " Taste it," 

 said I. 



As he did not make any reply, I interro- 

 gated him again. 



"Isn't that a beautiful apple?" 



"It kas just one faidt," he replied. 



I thought him a little hard to please ; but 

 noticing a sly look on his face as he munch- 

 ed the apple," said I, " W^ell, will you please 

 tell us, Mr. A., what that one fault is?" 



Til is was his answer: 



" Why, the apple is not mine.'' 



I told him if that was the trouble, to please 

 take the whole of it, and tell me the name 

 of the fruit. Now, those strawberries and 

 grapes and pears are just as fine as they were 

 fifty years ago ; in fact, I think I am correct 

 in saying they are a great deal finer, for we 

 have made great progress in fruit-raising in 

 fifty years. But the boys all have one fault 

 to find with them, and therefore do not want 

 them. The fault is, they are tlie rightful 

 property of the man owning the house ; and 

 this fact, in the boys' hearts, is better protec- 

 tion than a ten-foot stone wall with sharp 

 things on top of it, around the man's door- 

 yard. May God hasten the day when this 

 state of affairs shall be the rule, not only in 



