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laws of God and of man forbid marriage, 

 wait patiently until the liiiman being who 

 liappens to be an obstacle in the way shall 

 die. Yon must not poison him, neither 

 must you hope he will die, because it is 

 wicked ; but when he does die, you can be 

 happy. The author did not say what you 

 should do in case the individual did not 

 happen to he so accommodating as to die in 

 propei' season. I am ashamed to say that 1 

 wasted two hours in reading such a book. 

 If E. V. Koe should see wliat I have written 

 about his books, I hope he will repent and 

 write things as he used to do when T was a 

 l)oy. Wlien I reviewed the day, before going 

 lo sleep, you may be very sure that I felt 

 g'tilty in thinking of the two hours I had 

 wasted. Yesterday I decided to do differ- 

 ently, so I took my (ieike's Life of Christ, 

 and with his aid t studied the life of the 

 Savioi-. I presume I spent over two hours; 

 and when night came. I felt glad that I 

 knew more about the life of the Master than 

 I liad ever known before. I felt stronger, 

 and better prepared to tight Satan and evil, 

 because of this fresli companionship with 

 tlie teachings of the Savior. 



We don't tight very much with swords 

 nowadays. God grant that we may never 

 need to any more ; but, dear friends, we do 

 have some pretty big tights, not only in 

 words, but on paper— saddest of all, a good 

 many times in print, before the pul)lic. 

 IIow fascinating it is ! Somebody misrepre- 

 sents you. An explanation is needed. 

 After the explanation has been written, 

 Satan whispers, " O my dear friend, there is 

 just one other thing that should be added." 

 You get that written, then he says again, 

 " Oh, look here ! it is lucky you happen to 

 think of how nicely you can" bring this in. 

 Why, it makes a master] )iece of the whole 

 thing, and utterly demolishes your oppo- 

 nent." If you are silly enough to be en- 

 trapped into going thus far, Satan gets 

 more bold, and says, " Now, this thing is an 

 extreme case. I would just use him up 

 completely by some strong and severe lan- 

 guage, it is a good thing to let people 

 know that you are able to take care of your- 

 self, and are not nfraid to call men and 

 things by their right names." Very likely 

 it is a professor of religion who gets led 

 along by the nose in just this wav by the 

 Avily old serpent. Jesus said, " Love ye 

 your enemies." The poor victim gets so far 

 btf from the track that he actually exults 

 and rejoices at the prospects of demolishing 

 and using up his opponent. Dear friends, 

 you don't want to use up anybody. If we 

 are Christians, we don't want to get ahead 

 of anybody. During the great part of Je- 

 sus' examination he did not say any thing 

 at all. FTe decided, with infinite wisdom, 

 that there was nothing that could be said to 

 make matters better. The Homan soldiers 

 buffeted him and spit upon him and tortur- 

 ed him because they hated the Jews, and 

 they supposed he was a Jew. The Jews 

 liated him with tenfold more fierceness than 

 the Romans did. because he had told them 

 of their sins. . Had the Romans known the 

 facts in the case, they would have befriend- 

 ed liim. They hated the Jews because of 



their hypocrisy. Jesus also hated their 

 liypocrisy ; but he lovfed them, sinners as 

 they were, and said, "• Father, forgive them, 

 tliey know not what they do." Jesus bore 

 the" worst misrepresentation and injustice 

 that any human being ever bore, and that 

 without uttering a word of explanation to 

 set liimself right. I think that Christians a 

 good many times had better keep silent, and 

 let people misunderstand them and wrong- 

 fully accuse them. To make any kind of an 

 answer seems to invite Satan to have a lin- 

 ger in the pie. Sometimes professors of re- 

 ligion are offended when we suggest " J^ove 

 ye your enemies ; " don't try to get ahe:id ; 

 don't try even to set yourself right. You 

 ask in "dismay what you shall do. .Just 

 what friend Lighty suggested — be a better 

 Cliristian than yoii have been. Keep the 

 Sabbath day more lioly. Put away the 

 sword you had fixed up to give a clip at 

 your neighl)or, and get down on your knees 

 and have a big tight with the evil on^^ who 

 is getting a lodging-place in your own heart. 

 Prove by your every act in life that you are 

 not what evil ones declare you are ; but 

 don't say any thing about it to anybody. 

 Just set to work doing good. Don't be (?./.s- 

 appointed when the Master tells how lie 

 would have you fight. Be quiet and pa- 

 tient and busy, and by and by shall we be 

 surprised and astonished at the words, " In- 

 asmuch as ye have done it unto one of the 

 least of these my brethren, ye have done it 

 unto me." 



A KIND CORRECTION FROM FRIEND 

 LANGSTROTH. 



"FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS OF A FlUENn. 



fUIEND ROOT:— 111 your remarks on my in- 

 dorsement of the new Heddon liive, yon do 

 its inventor and myself the .instice to sa.v, 

 " I know, dear friend, that every word of the 

 above comes honestly from the bottom of 

 your heart, and is entirely unsolicited;" but as 

 there may be some who do not Icnow me so well as 

 you do, I desire to state, without any reservations 

 whatever, that I have neither received nor been 

 promised, nor can ever accept, any pecuniary re- 

 ward for publicly expressing- my belief that the 

 Heddon hive, with its system of management, 

 marks a great step in advance, in practical bee 

 culture. If, my dear friend, you had confined your 

 comments to the merits or demerits of that hive. T 

 should have been willing to trust to old father Time 

 the decision of the matters in which we differ; but 

 as you have on other points expressed oiiinions, 

 which, however honest, seem to be contrary to the 

 public good, I must ask for further space in your 

 columns. Before discussing these points, allow me 

 to say, my dear friend, that I think you have done 

 wrong in referring to those things talked about be- 

 tween us more than thirteen y(>ars ago. Even if 

 your memory had served you so well as to repro- 

 duce perfectly the subject of those conversations, 

 T am convinced that, on further retlectioii. you will 

 see that you ought never to have alluded to things 

 which were spoken in the freedom of confidential 

 intercourse. I wish that it were possible forme to 

 stop short hcM-e; but T ought not to consent thtit 

 your numerous readers who do not know me per- 



