1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



339 



that day. and leap for joy." What a contrast! 

 My friend, if yon liave ever lain awake nights 

 becanse somebody accused you of something 

 of which you were entirely innocent, do not do 

 so any more. Have faitii in tlie Bible i)romises. 

 If th'ei'e is any truth in the unkind woi'ds, then 

 bestir yourself to make them untrue. If some- 

 body has accused you of somcithing that you 

 never did at all, look into your own heart and 

 see whether you ever thought of so doing. If 

 you did. there is where you are to tight your 

 enemy. Jesus said, in connection with this 

 very thought, " But I say unto you. That ye re- 

 slstnot evil."' Do not trouble yourself about 

 the evil at all, and do not waste your energies 

 in even making a reply. Turn all your 

 thoughts, and do all your lighting, against the 

 evil in your own heart. Keep Imsy in resisting 

 every enci'oachment of the evil one, and then 

 shall come these happy surprises that I have 

 been telling you about to-day. Then will you 

 feel like saying, when the dear Master sends 

 you— yes, here in this world— more wonderful 

 blessings than you ever thought of or dreamed 

 of- 



Lord, when saw we thee u hung-ered, and fed thee? 

 or thirsty, and gave ihee drink ? When saw we thee 

 a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clotlied 

 thee? Or wlien saw we tliee sick, or in inison, and 

 came unto tliee V 



T6B^CC0 GdhUW' 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WE GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 STOP USING TOBACCO. 



First, the candidate mu'^t be one of those who have given up 

 tobacco in consequence of what he has seen and read in this 

 department. Second, he promises to pay for the snKjker 

 should he ever resume the use of tobacco in any form, after 

 receiving tlie smoker. Third, he must be a subscriber to 

 Gleanings. Any subscriber may, however, have smokers sent 

 to neighbors or personal acquaintances whom he has labored 

 with on the matter of tobacco-using, providing he. give us his 



E ledge that, if the one who receives the smoker ever uses (o- 

 aeco again, he (the subscriber) will pay for the smoker. The 

 one who receives the smoker in this case need not be a sub 

 scriber to Gleanings, though we greatly prefer that he be one. 

 because we think he would be strengthened by reading the 

 testimonials from time to time in regard to this matter. The 

 full name and address of evei-y one who makes the promise 

 must be furnished for publication. 



OBJECTIONABLE PICTUKES IN PACKAGE.S OF 

 TOBACCO. 



Mr. Root: — I inclose with this two pictures 

 givcMi to me by men in the shop where I work. 

 They come in papers of tobacco that are sold to 

 anybody who wants them, old or young, and are 

 circulated everywhei'e. No doubt you will tind 

 the boys, if not the girls, in your schools, are 

 too well acquainted with them. I believe they 

 are suppost il to repre.sent theatrical costumes, 

 and may be inside of the law; but if so. the law 

 needs to be changed, and I thought perhaps you 

 might be able to start an effort in that di- 

 rection. 



New Jersey. B. C. W. 



[Now, then, if there is any man (of course 

 there is not a woman) who would defend the 

 use and sale of tobacco after the point made by 

 our good brother in the above, we should be 

 glad to hear from him. The veiy fact of itself, 

 that evil, vicious men have chosen tobacco 

 packages as a vehicle for their Infamous work, 

 is enough to condemn it. The Christian man 

 (or. perhaps I should say, the profes.soi'S of relig- 

 ion) who sell tobacco, knowing that the pack- 

 ages contain these objectionable pictures, should 

 hide their faces in shame if they do not give up 

 at once and for ever this trattic. The plea that 

 there is money in it is no excuse at all, but rath- 

 er the contrary. A good fi-iend of mine who got 

 hold of some of these vile sheets, put them in a 



letter and mailed them to a grocer who adver- 

 tises prominently that he makes tobacco a spe- 

 cialty. She asked him if he could consistently 

 sell any class of goods that included things of an 

 immoral tendency like these, telling him at the 

 same time that the pictures she inclosed came 

 out of the packages of tobacco bought at /lis- 

 store. At the present writing he has never 

 made any reply whatevtn'. 



Bi'o. W., you are right about it. If these 

 things are not against tlie law, the law certainly 

 needs mending. Only last week a Medina Co. 

 boy was arrested for printing and sending out 

 obscene literatui'e made on a little amateur 

 press. I was told that the full penalty of his 

 crime would be live years in the penitentiary. 

 His father got him clear, however, by the pay- 

 ment of $.500. This boy scattered his infamous 

 pi'oductions among the schoolchildren. Now, if 

 it is five years in the peiiitA-ntiary for printing 

 and disseminating vileness and obscenity, why 

 is it that our tobacco-dealers (providing they 

 have no conscience) are allowed to go scot free 

 in this matter of putting out, with their tobac- 

 co, obscene pictui'es? The pictures are e.xactly 

 the kind calculated to stir up the worst and the 

 most dangerous pas.^ions in human nature. I 

 know by experience the extreme harmfulness of 

 like picture.s — pictures shown me by thoughtless 

 or vicious schoolmates, which have haunted me 

 — or at least the memory has — thiough life. And 

 even since I have become a Christian I have 

 prayed again and again that God would wash 

 away and obliterate the recollection that has 

 followed me for to\\ard forty years. 



Friend W., I thank you for the confidence you 

 place in my ability to do something in this line: 

 and may God help us to use our privileges. If 

 Prof. Cook. Dr. Mason. Dr. Miller, R. L. Taylor, 

 and a host of others whose names have weight, 

 would start a petition to make it a penalty to 

 put this stuff' in tobacco packages or any\vhere 

 else. I think there is no doubt but that we 

 might succeed. Our excellent Postmaster-Gen- 

 eral, Mr. Wanamaker. is wide awake and in 

 dea d earnest in excluding every thing of this 

 kind from the mails. Therefore the enemy is 

 making every attempt to reach boys and young 

 men through other av(>nues: and with Satanic 

 aptness and ingenuity, they have decided to put 

 it in packages of tobacco. May God help us. 



My son, Wiley H. Barbee, has quit the use of 

 tobacco, and he thinks he is entitled to one of 

 your smokers. If yovt think he is worthy of 

 one, please send It to my address, and I will see 

 that he gets it. Daniel Bakbee. 



Glenwood, la.. Feb. 20,. 



Please send a smoker to Albert Donaldson. 

 Courter, Miami Co.. Ind. He has tiuit the use 

 of tobacco. If he ever uses it again I will pay 

 for the smokei'. I have not broken my pledge 

 yet, and never expect to. Ciias. Craning. 



Courter, Ind.. Jan. ;3(5. 



Through the influence of the Tobacco Column 

 I have concluded to quit the use of tobacco. If 

 you will send me a smoker I will never use the 

 weed again; but if I should fail to keep my 

 promise, and ever use tobacco again in any 

 form I will pay you foi' the smoker. 



Morgan, Ky'., Feb. 33. Henuy C. Clemons. 



Inclosed find ^2.00. Take enough out to pay 

 for a Clark smokei', and the rest apply on 

 Gleanings. The smoker is one I ordered sent 

 to a man some time ago wht) had quit the ust^ 

 of tobacco; but as he has broken his pledge I 

 shall have to pay for the smoker or break my 

 pledge. E. C. Eaglesfield. 



Berlin, Wis,, Feb. 2C>. 



