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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fbbeuaey, 1917 



is for the public good. Make for peace with 

 those who abuse you, if possible. Great 

 things are jDossible, as I know by experi- 

 ence, if you succeed in not getting ruffled 

 up and preserve a kindly demeanor. I know 

 how hard it is, and sometimes I think it 

 almost impossible to keep cool when I am 

 unjustly criticised. But at such times hold 

 fast to the little prayer, " Lord, help," and 

 it will not be very long before you feel the 

 presence in your heart of the Holy Spirit, 

 and it will almost seem to you that the dear 

 Savior is near, the all-powerful Friend who 

 has said, " Lo ! I am with you alway, even 

 unto the end of the world." 



Just recently a man passed thru our 

 town at a reckless speed. The children were 

 out on the street because the weather was 

 very warm. He was flagrantly breaking one 

 of the town ordinances regulating speed. 

 Two men called on the man after it wasall 

 over, and ventured a remonstrance. They 

 did not threaten to have him arrested, but 

 suggested to him that he was Kable to arrest 

 if he continued to ignore the ordinance in 

 regard to the speed of automobiles. 



" Personal liberty " has been talked a 

 little too much; and perhaps all of us need 

 reminding to keep us loyal to the ordinances 

 that are passed by our towns and commu- 

 nities, that it is a Christian duty to stand up 

 and encourage the officers of the law. 



Of course we mailed our good friend a 

 bundle of the little tracts that have often 

 been refei'red to — " How to be Happy when 

 People Abuse You ;" and we stand ready to 

 furnish still more of them to those who are 

 interested in the matter. 



In our morning reading we came across 

 tl)e following that comes a good deal along 

 the same line. You will remember that 

 after .Jesus sent out the seventy, as we are 

 told in Luke 10:17, they all returned with 

 great joy, saying, " Even the devils are 

 subject unto us in thy name." But tlie 

 Master replied later on in the 20th verse as 

 follows: "In this rejoice not, that the 

 spirits are subject unto you ; but rather 

 rejoice because your names are written in 

 heaven." 



After reading the above I fell to thinking 

 of this matter as I had never done before. 

 With all our trials and worries and perse- 

 cutions we have a right to rejoice and be 

 glad, because our names are written in the 

 long list of those who have gone before us 

 in ages past, because they loved righteous- 

 ness and hated iniquity. As I grow older 

 I meet with great and good men and wom- 

 en. Tt is often a happy surprise — a sur- 

 prise that gives me a thrill that I cannot 

 describe, because I am recognized as a co- 



worker among good and busy people. At a 

 I'ecent Chautauqua gathering, as I handed 

 in my ticket the manager said that Prof. 

 Montraville L, Wood had sent a special re- 

 quest to see me. When I found him he said 

 something as follows : 



" Mr. Root, my father was a beekeeper 

 and took your journal. I had heard him 

 talk so much of you in your earlier years 

 that I thought it would be a great pleasure 

 to meet you. I know something of your 

 early experiments in bee culture, and I 

 remember how you decided to give your 

 inventions to the world rather than to get 

 out patents on them, etc." 



The professor gave us some wonderful 

 experiments with the gyroscope, and told us 

 how after the invention has lain idle for 

 over forty years it is now proving to be a 

 great blessing to the world ; and among 

 other things he said the recent successful 

 trip of the Deutschland under the seas 

 would not have been possible had it not 

 been for the gyroscope taking the place of 

 the magnetic needle. The gyroscope was in- 

 vented in 1852, when I was twelve years old. 

 T saw an account of it in the Scientific 

 American, and soon after that I made one 

 that would work. When 1 was sixteen years 

 old I was going around lecturing in country 

 schoolhouses, as T have told you ; and be- 

 sides my electrical home-made apparatus, 

 I exhibited a home-made gyroscope. I have 

 already made allusion to the " gyi'o com- 

 pass " that was for several years under the 

 care of my nephew, Mr. Homer Root. Now 

 you can realize from the above what a thrill 

 it gives an old man to find out, after years 

 have gone by, that he was a co-worker 

 and had a hand in ushering in to humanity 

 some of the great and wonderful inventions 

 of the age! If tliat be true, how much more 

 is it true of the one who has spent a life- 

 time in holding up to a suffering world the 

 glorious victories that are possible as a 

 result of spreading the " glad tidings " of 

 the gospel to a sin-sick and suffering world? 



" WHOSOEVER SHALL GIVE YOU A CUP OF 

 WATER." 



Mr. A. I. Root: — Thy favor and packase of "War 

 on Christian Principles " was gladly received, for 

 our heavenly Father lets me " live by the side of 

 the road and be a friend to man." People stop for 

 a drink when they see our pump has a cup, and 

 sometimes water their horse; and even aiitomobiles 

 have to have waler too, and I am always glad to 

 give folks something to read that will do them good 

 — so many opportunities I find to distribute " How 

 to be Happy when People Abuse You," too. 



I gave two of our soldier boys a copy of just one 

 of the Evangelists, Matthew and Ijuke, and we hear 

 that one claims to have taken a firm stand as a 

 Christian since going to camp, and he ■\\Tites he 



