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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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must keep in touch with the young people. If 

 we want a sure i-ecipe for growing old, it is, to 

 criticise the young: look with suspicion on 

 their efforts and find fault. He rejoiced in the 

 Christian Endeavor HH)venient because it is 

 training an army foi' battle with anarchism 

 and nihilism on the our hand, and Romanism 

 on the other. He was glad because the women 

 are included in it. because they are oui' most 

 efficient workers. He said the Sunday-school 

 was not what it seemed to be in too many 

 of the schools, simply to grind out .53 responsive 

 exercises and lessons during the year, but to 

 win souls to Christ: and where will you put 

 your young converts from the Sunday-school 

 but in the Christian Endeavor society, to be 

 trained in Christian service? and the school 

 should send them into the society, surcharged 

 with the sincere milk of the word. There are 

 three things the Sunday-school officers are go- 

 ing to set out to do the coming fall, in which he 

 asked our help: 



1. Gather all the church into the Sunday- 

 school. 



3. Gather in all those who have drifted away 

 from the Sunday-school. 



.3. Gather in those outside who do not now 

 attend. * 



The society as a soul-winner was the general 

 thought of the afternoon session. There were 

 four open conferences, similar to that in the 

 morning. " Souls won thi'ough the commit- 

 tees "■ was lead by F. J. Harwood, of Wisconsin. 

 The Lookout Committee was called the eye: 

 the Prayer-meeting Committee the heart, and 

 the Social Committee the hand of the society. 

 Make strangers so welcome that they will come 

 again. *• Souls won through the prayer and 

 consecration meetings. "" The prayer must be 

 from the heart, and the consecration real. 

 Know the sinner, and know the way of life per- 

 sonally, if you would win .souls. Look after the 

 bashful and awkward boys: no hearts so sus- 

 ceptible to good or evil influences. In one 

 society, consisting of one-third of Associate 

 members, these were divided among the Active 

 members, and personally invited to give them- 

 selves to Christ, and in less than two months 

 there was only one Associate member left. 



'•Souls won through the Junior societies," led 

 by W. \V. Sleeper, Stoneham. Mass., was full of 

 inspiration. The children's crusade in the 

 Christian Endeavor was born for victory. The 

 children have been too n>uch crowded out and 

 ignored. They eat the same food for their 

 bodies as their elders, and can enjoy much of 

 the same spiritual food. The Junior Societies 

 have proved to be soul-winners. Numerous in- 

 stances were given wheiv the children were 

 brought into the church through the Junior so- 

 ciety. In the Junior society organized seven 

 years ago. in Phillips Church, Boston, every 

 ■one of the fifty original memtsers has united 

 with the church. In a society of 40 in Philadel- 

 phia, six of the parents were brought into the 

 church; 3,5 additions to the church from the 

 Junior branch of a Toronto church, and many 

 like wonderful testimonies to the value of work 

 among the juniors. 



Passing the Local Union Conference, which 

 was full of inspiration and suggestions. Rev. 

 C". A. Dickenson told us of the recent campaign 

 in England, where the Christian Endeavor 

 cause is full of promise. Then followed a most 

 stirring address by the evangelist, L. W. Mun- 

 hall, on "'The Society as a Missionary and 

 Evangelistic Force." Would that I might bring 

 you a coal from that fiery appeal! The neces- 

 sary things are. first, consecration, not to the 

 Y. P. S. C. E.. not to the church, but to Jesus 

 Christ. No matter if the work succeeds or fails, 

 your business is to be consecrated to him. Next, 



systematic Bible study. '" Study to show thy- 

 self approved unto God, a workman that need- 

 eth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the 

 word of truth." Tliird, personal work, using 

 the Bible which you have rightly divided. 

 "And remember." said he. '"you will never 

 have any influence in winning souls to Christ if 

 you go to the prayer-meeting one night and to 

 the theater or card-party or dance the next 

 night. I have, in the meetings in which I have 

 labored, seen lOO.OOo avow themselves Chris- 

 tians, and I never knew a young person who 

 indulged in the.se things to be inquired of by 

 their companions in the way of life." My 

 Christian brother and sister, you who have 

 named his name, and still indulge in these 

 amusements, can you stand in the last day ac- 

 quitted before God. with your comrades gone to 

 perdition because of your careless example? 

 Oh for consistent, consecrated lives, lived in the 

 likeness of Christ our perfect example! 



I must pass rapidly on to the close of the 

 evening session, when Dr. Barrows, of Chicago, 

 announced the decision of the trustees to hold 

 the next convention in New York. This was 

 greeted with loud applause by the delegates 

 from the Empire State. But above the ap- 

 plause was heard the noise and crash of a thun- 

 der storm. Soon the electric lights flickered, 

 and went out entirely, and there we were. ] 2.000 

 in the midst of that great building, nearly 10 

 o'clock, in total darkness. All is silence. Pres- 

 ently a voice starts in the melody. 

 Blest be the tie that binds 

 Our hearts in Christian love. 



What matter if the tempest raged, and. for 

 aught we could tell, our last hour had come? 

 A loving Father was watching over his own, 

 who rejoiced in his love. How our hearts were 

 knit together, as our voices swelled in that 

 glorioi;s melody! Pi'esently. after a darkness 

 of sevei'al minutes, as it seemed, the light re- 

 turned, and the exerci.ses were resumed. I 

 would not have missed that experience for a 

 great deal, and I could not help thinking that, 

 if the company were of worldly people attend- 

 ing a theater or a circus, or something of that 

 sort, there might have been a panic and stam- 

 pede in which many would have lost their lives. 



The address Friday night on •' The Revival of 

 Generosity " was too good to pass by unnoticed. 

 The speaker mentioned the urgent calls for 

 men and money for the Lord's work from all 

 parts of the world. No investment that we can 

 make is so sure of results, so sure of an income, 

 as investment in the gospel, not only from a 

 spiritual standpoint, but from a business view. 

 If we should send 85,000.000 to educate and Chris- 

 tianize the negroes and poor mountain whites it 

 would, within a few years, be returned to us 

 fivefold for wares to supply the new needs 

 created by elevated tastes. He believed that 

 the day is coming when shrewd business men 

 would recognize this, and, instead of investing 

 their money in bonds and real estate, would in- 

 vest it in the gospel. There is need of such an 

 awakening. Twelve thousand millions of this 

 country's wealth is controlled by Christians. 

 Of this, three cents out of every SlOO is given 

 for the support of the gospel. The Christians 

 of L". S. give an average of 25 cents a member 

 for the support of the gospel. The poor Chinese 

 Christians give Sl.OO per member, and the Mo- 

 ravians •?12.00 per member. Our civil govern- 

 ment has a claim upon us which it uses in de- 

 manding taxes for its support. So God's gov- 

 ernment has higher claims upon us which we 

 are just as much bound to respect. If we are 

 liberal in giving of our means for the support 

 of his government, he will prosper us abun- 

 dantly. 



I must leave unsaid many of the best things. 



