Al'RlI., 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEK CULTURE 



253 



accomiiiodntiou wore surprised that a, per- 

 fect stranger away off in Quebec should 

 lend me money without security wlien none 

 of my own townspeople would take the 

 risk. 



Let us go bae-k a little. You have doubt- 

 less read these stories of answers to pray- 

 er. First, when I started out to unite our 

 Medina churches I prayed over it, and one 

 of God's minister servants changed his 

 mind almost in an instant. Second, when I 

 had that strike in regard to the tobacco mat- 

 ter, quite a respectable crowd of people 

 changed their minds almost in an instant. It 

 seems that the dear Savior was teaching me 

 faith by degrees — first the single individual, 

 then a crowd of people, then by a good man 

 away off in California, and finally a good 

 friend sprang up away off in Quebec and fur- 

 nished me money without security, and made 

 it reach me on a certain day. The Holy 

 Spirit seemed to be leading me along these 

 paths by easy steps as one would teach a 

 child. When I asked the Lord if I was on 

 the right track in kneeling with those poor 

 boys from the jail he answered my prayer 

 so swiftly that it almost frightened me. 



Now a word in regard to those in the 

 jails of our land. Just recently I read of 

 a guilty criminal who was on his way to 

 the penitentiary. The judge was a profess- 

 ing Christian, and he finally said to the 

 Christian man who caught the culprit red- 

 handed, "Now, my good friend, I believe I 

 will turn this matter al] over to you. In fact, 

 it rests with you to go on with the trial or 

 not." And this Christian man turned to the 

 guilty man and said, "Look here. Billy Sun- 

 day has just commenced a series of meetings 

 in our city. You go and hear him. Do not 

 miss a session; and if you will do it faith- 

 fully, when the meeting closes you are a 

 free man." 



What do you suppose happened? The poor 

 fellow gave his heart to the Lord, and is 

 now following Sunday and helping the re- 

 vivalist in his -work. 



>■ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard 

 his spots'? — Jere. 13:23. 



Hubam in Florida, 



No clover of any kind, not even alfalfa, 

 wall stand our hot, wet summers. A few cases 

 have been found where it somefimes gets 

 through; the season isn't long enough. But 

 the Hubam is O. K. Nov. 1, 1921, I sowed 

 four rows, perhaps 100 feet long. On March 

 1, 1922, it is higher than I can reach — some 

 of it — and full of -bloom and bees. The en- 

 tire growth was made during December, 

 Ja'nuary and February. We are going to 

 sow it on all our potato ground as fast as 

 the potatoes are dug. We shall probably 

 spade it all under to enrich the ground for 

 potatoes next winter. Our new potatoes are 

 wanted (once more) faster than we can fur- 

 nish them, at 75c for a % peck basket. 



Mr. A. I. Root, Bradcntown, Florida. 



Dear Mr. Root : — Who am I, to be writing you 

 now ? What can I, who am so much younger, say 

 at this time to you, who has lived for so Iouk so 

 near to God? How can I tell you where to turn 

 for comfort? Ah, dear friend, whom I do not 

 know, God comfort you in these days of loneli- 

 ness I Well I know where your faith lies, and how 

 firm and great is your belief in the "many man- 

 sions.'' B\it for the inexpressible personal loss, 

 may God Himself comfort and sustain you. 



1 never thanked you for your note of last fall. 

 I do so now. The regret that I felt at that time 

 because you were not to pass thru Nashville has 

 deepened now. How I wish I might have met 

 her. How I hope I may yet meet you and tell 

 you more fully what now I can only suggest, my 

 deep admiration for you and for her memory, and 

 my heart full of sympathy for you today. 



Over against your sorrow you have a wealth 

 of memories- — -what rich lovely ones they must be! 

 — and an even greater wealth of faith and hope- 

 To these may I add, humbly but affectionately, 

 my own deep sympathy and that of my husband. 

 God bless you I Grace Allen. 



Route 9, Nashville Tenn., Dec. 15, 1921. 



TO A. I. ROOT 

 On the Sudden Death of Mrs. Root, Aged 80- 

 A HOMEMAKER TAKEN WHILE AT WORK. 

 How steadily God's winds go blowing 



Wherever they are sent I 

 I had not thought about her going 



Before you went. 

 But who can trace the holy thought 

 W^hereby God's purposes are wrought? 

 Perhaps He watched her working there. 



And said, "Come now, dear Child, 

 I've other work anotherwhere"- — 

 And took her hand, and smiled. 



(For in God's plan how can we know 



What service still may be? — - 

 What bread to bless, what fields to sow. 



What shores of what great sea 

 To watch for homing sails ? — What room 

 To fill with some undreamed-of bloom ? 

 What oil to pour, what lamps to trim 



And in what windows high 

 To set them on old roadways dim 



To light God's children by?) 



For sixty years, when sunset flame 



Had homeward set your feet. 

 You found her there and called her name 



And found home very sweet. 

 And when at close of longer day 

 Again you wend a Homeward way — - 

 And find her there — what tho you stand 



Rapture-hushed and dumb ? 

 She will take you by the hand 



And tell you where you've come. 

 She will call you by your nanre 

 And say how glad she is you came. 

 And say, "Great things are here to do! — 



In soul and star and loam — 

 And here is God! — And here are you! — 



And here is Home." 



— Grace Allen. 



STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, 

 CIRCULATION, ETC., OF GLEANINGS IN 

 BEE CULTURE. PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT 

 MEDINA, OHIO, REQUIRED BY THE ACT 

 OF AUGUST 24, 1912. 



Editors, Geo. S. Demuth and E. R. Root, Me- 

 dina, Ohio; Managing Editor, H. G. Rowe, Medina, 

 Ohio; Publishers, The A. I. Root Company, Me- 

 dina, Ohio. Stockholders holding 1 per cent or 

 more stock, as follows: Calvert. J. T. ; Calvert, 

 Maude R.; Calvert, Howard R. ; Root, A. I.; Root, 

 E. R.; Root, H. H. ; Root, Mabel K.; Root, Susan; 

 Bryant, Mildred C; Trustees of Employees Profit 

 Sharing Fund ; Trustees of Employees Pension 

 Fund. Mortgagee holding 1 per cent or more of 

 real estate mortgage covering New York property, 

 E. T. Wilson Estate. 



H. G- ROWE, Mng. Editor. 

 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th 

 day of March, 1922. H. C. WEST Notary Public. 



