GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



SkI'T. 1. 



I in them, and tliou in me, that Ihey may be per- 

 fect in one.— John 17:23. 



Dear friends. I am speaking to you on a siclv- 

 bed. I have been here for something over a 

 week. The doctor calls it nervous malarial 

 fever. As he insists that what J dictate shall 

 be brief, j'ou will excuse me if I come directly to 

 the point I wish to make to you just now. 

 There have been many improvements in medi- 

 cine since I was under the doctor's care toward 

 forty years ago; and one of these is a beautiful 

 little instrument called a fever thermometer. It 

 is placed underneath the tongue, and tells 

 whether the patient's temperature be normal. 

 The doctor and I call it the " orthodox tempera- 

 ture," just for the sake of variety. Well, now, 

 I had forgotten (or had never known) the as- 

 tounding fact, that there is one fixed, exact 

 temperature for the blood, not only in human 

 beings, but in animals as well. When you stand 

 beside your horse and pat him on the neck, you 

 can feel that you two are brothers in at least 

 this: That the temperature of the blood in his 

 veins is the same as that in your oum, even to 

 the fraction of a degree. It seems that the Al- 

 mighty, in his infinite wisdom, decided in the 

 beginning that the best tempei-ature for the 

 growth and well-ljeing of the liuman organism 

 is just that point — 98^-^no more and no te.ss. 

 The Instrument is made with only a narrow 

 range, so that the degrees ai-e usually divided 

 into fifths: and with this beautiful little instru- 

 ment, even a child could read the fifth of a de- 

 gree, without trouble. Of course, the thermom- 

 eter is self-registering; that is, the mercury, 

 when it is pushed up the tube, stays there until 

 the nurse can read it at his leisure. After that, 

 he shakes it down. I questioned the doctor 

 long and cIo.sely about this: and he said the 

 blood remains at this exact point almost until 

 death comes: that neither summer's heat nor 

 winter's cold makes a particle of change, so 

 carefully has nature fortified and guarded and 

 prepared these wonderful bodies of ours foi' 

 emergencies. Finally I burst out: '• O doctor ! 

 why is it not possible to find some line of moral 

 temperature I'unning through all humanity- 

 say among political parties, for Instance— some 

 common ground of agreement somewhere— 

 something that can be settled once and for ever, 

 to remind us that we are brothers — one through 

 God. and through that only Son of whom we 

 are told in our text?"" 



He drew a long sigh, and smilingly admitted 

 that it irould be a "big thing'" just at the 

 present crisis of affairs. And then I fell to 

 thinking of religious denominations— that even 

 we are not settled conclusively on very many 

 things; and then I thought of one thing of mod- 

 ern date that, after all. seems almost parallel to 

 the fever thermometer. Thei'e is an organiza- 



tion—I was going to say in oiir land; but. thank 

 God. it really extends throughout a great part 

 of the ^vhvl€ world— an organization where all 

 Christians of whatever denomination drop dif- 

 ferences of opinion and circumstances of every 

 kind, and meet and work together with about 

 as much singleness of purpose and unanimity 

 as the little instrument tells us of: viz.. that 

 the temperature of every man. woman, and 

 child, high or low, rich or poor (in health), is 

 aljsolutely always at one and the same point, 

 even to the fraction of a degree. I will tell you 

 what this society is. I have some very good 

 Christian friends who can not think exactly as 

 I do, and I can not think exactly as they do. and 

 no amount of talking will help the matter. 

 Suppose we, for the sake harmony, should say: 



*' Here. Lord, we bi'ing our differences of opin- 

 ion, and things we can not agree upon, and lay 

 them at thy feet, leaving tiiee to do with them 

 as thou seest best. And here before thee we 

 clasp hands in brotherly love— in love to thee, 

 and in love to all the rest of humanity whom 

 we find on the face of the earth." 



And this is what this Christian Endeavor 

 society has done. And now my good young 

 friend Mr. Calvert will cell you of the wonder- 

 ful meeting that has recently been held by this 

 society of Christian Endeavor in Minneapolis— 

 probably the largest assembly of Christian 

 workers the world has ever seen. 



REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAI, CHRISTIAN 

 ENDEAVOR CONVENTION, HELD AT MIN- 

 NEAPOLIS, .JULY 9 TO 12. 1891. 



The tenth international Chiistian Endeavor 

 convention has passed into history as the larg- 

 est and doubtless the most enthusiastic and 

 spiritual gathering ever known in the history 

 of the church. No doubt most of you have 

 read somewhat of this meeting already, as 

 there has scarcely been a paper, religious or 

 secular, in all the country, that has not at least 

 mentioned it. if they did not fully report it. 



The Ohio train, with over two hundred dele- 

 gates, reached Minneapolis just an hour before 

 the opening of the convention; and, not having 

 time to find our lodgings, we marched at once to 

 the exposition building, where the convention 

 was held. We first had to fill out registration 

 blanks, for which we received a program, a 

 leaflet of 24 pages, with selections fi-om the new 

 Christian Endeavor edition of Gospel Hymns 

 No. n, and a badge, which we must wear to 

 gain entrance to the hall before the hour of 

 opening each session. Entering the hall we 

 found tacked to the posts, in conspicuous places, 

 and in bold letters, the names of each State and 

 province over the section set apai't for their 

 delegation. In front of the platform, on the 

 floor, was the place assigned to Illinois: to the 

 right. Ohio: to the left, in the gallery. Indiana, 

 Massachusetts. Michigan, Nebraska, and so on 

 throughout the vast hall; each State was gath- 

 ered under its own banner with its chosen in- 

 scription. 



Notwithstanding the immense jam attending 

 registration, the liall was pretty well filled at 

 the hour of oi)ening: and at 4:20. Pres. Clai k. 

 or, as he is familiarly called. " Father Endeavor"" 

 Clark, said. " Let oui' first words be the voice of 

 song." and announced Coronation — "All hail the 

 power of Jesus' namel" and. oh that you might 



