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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



One 10-lncli, round I'oll, Nd. 1.. hi k'hxI Didcr for 

 lljrht brood fdn. I'rii-o $U (K). 



duo UViiu'h, roiiiui coll. No. I, for li^rlit or nicdium 

 fdn.: in >rot)d Older. Priro tl4.(M). 



Ono 10-iMcli. round ci-ll. No. K, old-styk' frame; 

 made some vears a>ro. but ii.sed scarcely any, and in 

 Kood order. Price $14.00. 



One liMncli. rouTid cell. No. C, old-style frame; in 

 fair order. Price iJU'.OO. 



One 12-incli. round cell. No. D, for heavy brood 

 fdn.; roll, same size as 10-incli, only 2 inches lonjrer; 

 one of the original Washburn mills, in fair order. 

 Price fl.'UlO. 



One 12-iach Dunham mill for heavy brood fdn.; 

 not so g«H)d as the above, but in fair order; will sell 

 for $12.00. 



CHOICE WHITE EXTRACTED HONEY WANTED. 



We are sold out of extracted honej', and have a 

 >rood demand. Those havinii' it foi' sale will confer 

 a favor by submittintr a sample. Ti'll how much you 

 liave. how it is p\it up. and what you want for it. 



KIND WORDS FROM ODR CUSTOMERS. 



HONEST, EVEN IF CH()I^ER.\ DOES COME. 



Mr. Root:— Ton will find inclosed $20.00 to apply 

 on my ai'coiint. This is the best I can i)()ssibly do 

 now." If 1 suiAive the cholera 1 will pay you the 

 remainder. If I die, my wife, who is honest, will 

 pay you out of $;3000 life insurance. 



Phoinix, Ariz., Sept. 9. J John B. Hoover. 



I have just returned from the State Fair, where I 

 took two first pi'emiums on comb honey— first on 

 display and first on best 20 lbs., quality and mannei- 

 of putting up for market considered. I used your 

 12-lb. cases and those honey-labels you sent me. 

 The labels were considered very neat and pretty. 

 One esLse was purchased to jro to the World's Fair. 



Harrison, Minn.. Sept. 15. N. P. Aspinwall. 



I have half an acre in a vegetable and fruit gar- 

 den, and read with great interest and profit your 

 " high-pressure garden " department in Gle.\mngs. 

 It is the best, most interesting, and useful publica- 

 tion I ever read. I am going to try your plan of 

 gardening under glass this coming season, so far as 

 I am able to get the sash. I have already one strip 

 of rye up, and am going to jjlant more to-morrow. 

 Thanks to Gleanings for the suggestion. 



Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 16. A. R. Gray. 



healing the sick, etc. 



Never mind Finch's rebuke. He failed to realize 

 that prices are generally comi)etitive. and set by 

 the world. When you were talking about prayer, 

 and healing the sick, why did you not give God's 

 complete plan, as found in James 5: 14, 15 '.' It is a 

 direct command, and a direct promise, without an 

 exception. The Lord shall raise him up, right away 

 from his sick-bed. We know he will raise him at 

 the resurrection; but that is promised he fore. Tlien 

 it is a complete forgiving of sins. That alone is a 

 great gain, and with the anointing, why can't we 

 take God's plans ? Will you ple;ise consider I his ':' 



Pottstown, Pa., Sept. 4. W. W. Kulp. 



A KIND WORD INDEED, AND WITH A ^lORAI, TO IT. 



Frieml Boot;— I received your letter of June 11, 

 1892, containing money order for beeswax I sent 

 you. Vou give rne more than the market price, 

 saying it was for its good quality. This was pleasing 

 to me, and exceedingly gratifying to know you 

 were pleased with Jhe wax. Thanks for your gen- 

 erosity. I admire your i)rompt, hontjrable, and 

 careful way of doing business. As I held ><)ur 

 statement for the beesAvax in my hand, contemplnt- 

 ing the accuiate, clear-cut figures, and the hand- 

 writing iperrait me here to give your lady cleik 

 much crerliti, I said to my wife, "This exi)lains why 

 some peoph' succeed when fithers fail." I am grow- 

 ing old, and, according to human events, will soon 

 have to quit business. Our business relations have 

 been long and ph'asant to nie, and I hope they have 

 been to you. May your life's sun set in a clear sky. 



Spring Mill, O., June 1.5. J. W. Niman 



THE WATKU-CURE TRACTS. 



I will again avail myself of your olfer to send 

 waler-iMire tracts, such as you sent nie free of 

 cost some time iigo. We have had a case of intlam- 

 mation of Ihe bowels in t his vilhige, which was pro- 

 nounced by 1 hree piominent physicians as incur-able 



the patient had to die, loid that inside of 24 hours. 

 1 began to give him the injections according to 

 directions, as I have laki^n tlieni myself for two or 

 Ihi'ee years, and the patient inunediately felt reliev- 

 ed, and in three days resumed his work.' The result 

 WHS a sensation in 1 he village, and m;inv applica- 

 tions for ti'acts. As I am out of them [ will I'ely on 

 your kindness to forward me 300 more of tliem. " 



Taftville, Ct., Aug. 24. P. A. Reeves. 



A KIND WORD IN REAL EARNEST. 



Bra. Root :—J am a con.stant reader of Gleanings, 

 and I have greatly enjoyed reading the articles un- 

 der the head of "Ourselves and Our Neighbors." In 

 the July 1st issue is one of those .irtlcles that 

 touched the most delicate cords of my heart, and 

 awakened the deepest sympatiiies, and touched the 

 teiiden'st emotions of my soul and my nature. My 

 dear old brother, you have struck the right string 

 this time, and it gives " no uncertain sound," but 

 echoes the V(jice of (iod and his Christ in his holy 

 word. Continue in this line; and may God give 

 you faith and utterance. Vou may speak and 

 write all the rest of your days on this text, and not 

 exhaust it, for it comprehends and opens up the 

 entire field. I have always believed, and still be- 

 lieve, that adultery and its twin sister and couplet, 

 idolatry-, weri; the great sins of men and of nations; 

 tliat all otiier sins (except, perhaps, the sin against 

 the Hoi}' Ghost) were only collaterals. O my brotherl 

 let us look around us. 1 fully indorse the sentiment, 

 "The sooner we believe in Satan, exactly as we are 

 taught of him in God's holy word, the better for 

 humanity;" knowing him, let us watch him, and 

 study his operations with individuals, with church, 

 and with state. M. W. C. Frazier. 



Carrizo Springs, Texas, July 6. 



IS THE BOOK OF ,TOB TO BE CONSIDERED A PABA- 

 BLE OR A REALITY ? 



Mr. Boot.-— I often read with much interest youi' 

 lay sermons in Gleanings, and sometimes find in 

 them ideas worth appropriating for my own ser- 

 vices. Oftener, peiliaps, they serve me by their 

 sugg-estiveness. But 1 do not quite like the idea of 

 " taking the l)ook of Job exactly as we take the par- 

 able of the prodigal son." My objection is, that 

 other portions of Scripture .seem to assume clearly 

 that Job was a real man, and his trials a reality. 

 For me and for many others the force of the lessons 

 wliich you draw from the book is much reduced if 

 the book is to be counted a fiction. We read in 

 Ezekiel 14:14, "Though these three men, Noah, 

 Daniel, and .Tob, were in it, they should deliver but 

 their own souls," etc. If Jol) were a fictitious char- 

 acter, this would be much like grouping together 

 Dr. Livingston, Mr. St;inley, and Robinson Crusoe. 

 Again, in James 5:11, we read: "Ye have heard of 

 the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the 

 Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender 

 mercy." Here is no hint that the patience of Job 

 was less real than the Lord's pity and tender mercy. 

 In fact, if the book of Job is only a parable there 

 was no exercise of the Lord's compassion. Such 

 are the views of at least one interested reader, and 

 one of his reasons tor the same. 



Lincoln, Tenn., July 9. David Strang. 



[Many thanks, dear friend Strang, for the addi- 

 tional light you give us on the matter; and I must 

 confess to being so poor a Bible reader that I had 

 never noti<'ed either of the quotations jou make. 

 I accept the force of your reasoning, ;in(l thank you 

 for it. Perhaps 1 might say that I leceived my sug- 

 gestion, that Job might be only a parable, from one 

 of tlie cU'i'gy; and, come to think of it, I believe he 

 oidy stated that some theologians were inclined to 

 accept Job as a sort of parabh\ Your position cer- 

 tainly does not lessen the force of the lessons 

 taught in this wonderful book. Come to think of 

 it again, it seems hardly likely that the peisonal 

 wealth, as well as tlu; names of the childi-en of a 

 purely fictitious person, would be given in the Bible. 

 In the case of the prodigal son, tlie characters are 

 evidently all imaginary, as nothing but the lesson 

 of forgiveness is taught ; but the book of Job is, to 

 a great extent, the history of that man.] 



