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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1. 



live over the winter, as you intimate, in the 

 ground. Oh.no! The eggs for the year's crop 

 of worms were laid last fall on your bushes near 

 the ground. The way to kill ihem is to take 

 them before you can see them. It is easier to 

 kill kittens befoi'e they get their eyts open, and 

 so with currant- worms. Use your hellebore 

 when the leaves of your currant or gooseberry 

 bushes are about the size of a dime, and you 

 need not spray more than a foot or eighteen 

 inches above the ground, as the eggs are ail 

 laid, and the worms all hatch, near the giound. 

 and eat or work upward; so unless you know 

 where to look for them you will not see them 

 until they are so large they soon defoliate the 

 plants. Another thing, it takes much less hel- 

 lebore and time to go over the lower part of the 

 bushes early. I was formerly much troubled 

 with these pests; but since adopting this way I 

 have had but little trouble. Last year I spray- 

 ed my currants only once, and it now looks as 

 though I should have to go over them but once 

 this year. I have sprayed my gooseberries 

 twice. J. E. CuANE. 



Middlebury, Vt., June 15. 



RUBBER HOSE FOR THE GARDEN; TAKING CARE 

 OF IT, ETC. 



We shipped you our Para brand of hose, which 

 has, without question, no equal, and is the best 

 hose in the world. The writer has a piece 7.5 ft. 

 long which has been in use, commencing this 

 summer, four years, and is in as good shape to- 

 day as it was when first bought. There is a 

 great deal in giving it proper care, to make it 

 last. The water should always be drained out 

 after use: and do not let it lie in the sun when 

 the water is not going through it; and if your 

 customer observes these precautions we think 

 he will have as good results as the writer. It is 

 also quite necessary at the end of the year, when 

 the hose is about to be put away, to inspect it 

 carefully and see that there is no water in it, 

 lest it freeze during t*he winter, which so often 

 happens to a great deal of hose, and is never no- 

 ticed, and for that reason it is not known why, 

 on taking the hose out in summer, it should 

 suddenly burst or become unsatisfactory in oth- 

 er respects. The W. H. H. Peck Co., 



per S. R. Driffield, Sec. 



Cleveland. O.. June 1(5. 



OURSELVES AND OUR NEIGHBORS. 



Now there was a daj' when the sons of God came 

 to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan 

 came also among- them.— Job. 1:6. 



The whole book of Job is a strange part of the 

 Bible, especially the fii-st chapter; and I would 

 particularly request our readei's to read from 

 the sixth to the thirteenth verses. You will 

 notice the above are set apart by paragraphs. 

 For ages there has been trouble in reconciling 

 this book of Job; and many good men have 

 questioned whether or not it should have a 

 place in the Bible. As it still stands there, 

 however, we may presume that it is right that 

 it should stand there. We may not all agree, 

 however, that such an occurrence actually took 

 place exactly as it reads in the Bible. When 

 Jesus gave us that beautiful parable of the 

 prodigal son. none of his hearers, probably, and 

 nobody since, ever took it for granted that such 

 a thing actually happened as he related it. We 

 all regard it as a parable; and at the saiue time 

 it was one of thi' most beautiful and helpful 

 parables that God ever gave to man. Of course. 



transactions like it are happening constantly: 

 and very likely thousands upon thousands of 

 wayward sons have decided to go back home 

 and choose riy/iteo«S7ie.s.s rather than i?af/t<iti/, 

 just from hearing or reading this sitnple little 

 story. 



Now. I presume there is no harm in taking 

 the book of Job exactly as we take the parable 

 of the prodigal son. if we choose to take it that 

 way. It does not matter very much whether it 

 actually happened, or whether it was simply a 

 parable to make known to us truths that we 

 might not readily get hold of otherwise. With 

 our weak and limited human intellect we can 

 comprehend or understand but very little of 

 God, any way. 



The story given us includes three principal 

 personages, if I may so term them— God, Satan, 

 and humanity. It teaches us God's relations to 

 humanity, and also Satan's relations to it, and 

 his relations to God. Mind you, the Bible does 

 not anywhere tell us jnst why God saw fit to 

 permit sin to come into the world; neither does 

 it tell us why Satan should have such large 

 liberty. It only says he does, and teaches us to 

 beware of him. Let us commence at that sixth 

 verse and look it over a little. What a strange 

 idea I A day seems to have been appointed 

 when the " sons of God " came to present them- 

 selves before the Lord. Now. we can not com- 

 prehend very much the nature of such a meet- 

 ing; in fact, we do not exactly know what is 

 meant by the expression " sons of God." It may 

 have reference to some of the angelic hosts, or 

 to God's leaders among the human family: or, 

 may be, it is entirely figurative. In any event, 

 " Satan came also;" and he came among the 

 others. Our first thought is, to wonder that he 

 should have the cheek and assurance to present 

 himself among the sons of God. O my dear 

 friend! if there is any thing that is absolutely 

 true of Satan, it is, that he has any amount of 

 cheek. You may expect him anywhere. If 

 there is a religious gathering going on. he is 

 sure to push himself right in among the fore- 

 most; and if any body of people are getting 

 close to Christ Jesus. Satan will show himself 

 sooner or later. He will be clothed like an an- 

 gel of light: and his counsels for a time will be 

 such as may deceive and delude the very wisest. 

 That is Bible doctrine, and may be you have 

 had some humiliating experience right in this 

 very line. 



A skeptical friend of mine said, not very long 

 ago, that nine-tenths of all the ministers of the 

 gospel who commit crime do so in the line of 

 Urentiousness. I aiu afraid the statement is 

 pretty near the truth; but I sincerely hope that 

 the whole ten-teuths is a very small number 

 compared with all the ministers we have in our 

 land. The idea of a minister of Ood—a spirit- 

 ual leader— committing cri'me is awful fo con- 

 template: and when we consider further, that, 

 when a minister does commit a crime that has 

 something to do with a Christian woman, the 

 thought is indeed appalling. Surely, none but 

 Satan could ever have succeeded in bringing 

 about any evil that has to do with womankind 

 and God's spiritual leaders. Such things are 

 terrible when they do occur: and I hope our 

 brethren of the ministry, as well as the Chris- 

 tian women of our land, will comprehend more 

 and more, as the years go by. the fearful wreck 

 and ruin, and the awful slur that they bring 

 upon the name of Christ Jesus when they vol- 

 untarily become parties to any such evil. Par- 

 don me' for the digression; but please bear in 

 mind that " Satan came also." Now comes an- 

 other astounding truth. God, the creator and 

 great ruler of the universe, the embodiment of 

 truth and purity, condescends to speak face to 

 face with the arch fiend of darkness. The first 



