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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1922 



schemes of Satan could have brought about 

 a divorce in our home after what I have 

 told you in the above? See what Paul says 

 below: 



For I am persuaded that neither death, nor 

 life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor 

 things present nor things to come, nor height nor 

 depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to 

 separate us from the love of God which is in 

 Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 8:38, 39. 



Of course Paul in the above refers to the 

 close connection between the penitent sin- 

 ner and his Savior; but where the Lord 

 Jesus Christ comes first in any home it seems 

 to me the matter of divorce or separation 

 should be as utterly impossible in just the 

 way Paul has expressed it. 



''YE MUST BE BOEN AGAIN." 



A vivid illustration of "putting off the 

 old life and putting on the new" is illus- 

 trated in the following from one of our 

 good friends: 



When I was a boy, our next neighbor was a 

 rough, illiterate man. of awkward, uncouth ap- 

 pearance, but a kindly, honest man, a good neigh- 

 bor, but not a Christian. He finally attended some 

 meetings held by the Volunteers of America, and 

 was converted. A few weeks after he got up to 

 give his first testimony. He said in effect : 

 "Neighbors and friends, I've been coming to 

 these meetings and I've found my Savior. I know 

 I'm saved, and I'll tell you how I know it. The 

 other night I was milking my cow, and just as I 

 had a nice full pail of milk she up and kicked 

 it over. Three weeks ago I'd have sworn a blue 

 streak, btit I just stood and looked at the milk 

 and looked at the cow and I said "Praise the 

 Lord." 



You can imagine the impression the awkward, 

 unkempt, bewhiskered, long-haired man, clad in 

 overalls, made as he gave this talk. To their 

 shame be it said that most of the audience saw 

 only the ludicrous side of it; but I have always 

 felt that he had applied the only real test of 

 genuine indwelling of the Spirit, in that he could 

 take it with him in his daily tasks, no matter 

 how humble, and live every moment by its help. 

 The most glorious moment in a man's life here 

 below is when the Spirit comes into his heart and 

 takes the curses out and nuts praise there in- 

 stead, and this little incident has always stood in 

 my mind as one of the most perfect evidences of 

 real conversion that I ever witnessed. I am glad 

 to say that this man continued in the better life 

 to his death many years after, in spite of many 

 hardships and discouragements. 



W. H. Haughwout. 



Peebles Building, Oswego, N. Y. 



Please note that, in place of the former 

 cilrses and profanity, he simply said. "Praise 

 the Lord." No wonder people laughed; but 

 T think they did not realize what it meant. 

 The poor converted sinner Avas praising the 

 Lord because he could feel from the bottom 

 of his heart that the old wicked life was 

 frone rlrar out of sUilit, forever. I have been 

 through experiences similar to the above: 

 but I fear that I have not verv often had 

 the courage or grace to say. "Praise the 

 Lord," right square in the face of disas- 

 ter. 



In closing tliis Home paper, the last of 

 the year, I want to give vou a recent ex- 

 perience. I had been spending quite a little 

 time in prayer before I retired. Tn the mid- 

 dle of the nicfht T awoke feeling very happy. 

 T dreamed — T am not quite sure nnv\ it was 

 fill a dream — that T hear-i anojel voices in 

 song; and after I wpa fully awake I man- 



aged to recall some of the words. Below 

 is what I heard fand it set me to rejoicing) 

 as nearly as I can make it: 



I will believe, I do believe. 



That thou didst die that I might live. 



And that thou bidst me come to thee. 

 My Savior and my God. 



Of course this is somewhat similar to 

 some of the hymns we have; but I have not 

 been able to find anything just like it, nor 

 anything that seems to fit as well to the 

 wonderful melody that came into my heart 

 and soul, in the middle of the night. 



Modern Surgery: What it Has Accomplished. 



My father was one of a family of nine 

 children. My mother was one of a fam- 

 \\j of eleven; but her father had a sec- 

 ond wife. I was one of a family of seven, 

 and Mrs. Root and I have given to the world 

 five children. Each one of these five, with 

 one exception, has two children. The one 

 excejjtion is the daughter Constance, who 

 has three — two boys and a girl. From the 

 above you will notice that the fashion of 

 having large families seems to be, I was go- 

 ing to say, going "downhill." But per- 

 haps I had better not say that. There are 

 two extremes in almost everything; and I 

 presume it would be hardly fair or kind to 

 ask the average woman to bear and bring 

 up the number of children that used to be 

 the fashion in olden times. I wish to add, 

 however, that the world agrees, or must 

 agree, that a large number of the great men 

 and women who have blest the world came 

 from a family of at least moderate if not 

 good size. Look about you and see if this 

 is not true. There is a reason for this. 

 Where there is a fair-sized family each one 

 has to get up and dust a little more by him- 

 self than where there are only two or even 

 one. Especially is this true where there is 

 only one child. That child has everything 

 done for him, and often has the best of 

 everything so that he is not obliged to 

 "hustle" for himself like each one of a 

 good-sized family. With this in view eacli 

 one of our five has at least two children. I 

 do not know how much Mrs. Root, the moth- 

 er, had to do with it in the way of advice 

 in the above. 



Some of you may begin to ask Avhat all 

 this has to do with surgery as in the title 

 at the head of this talk. " Well, not very 

 much as yet; but listen. The general man- 

 ager of our institution had only one little 

 girl. You may remember I suggested nam- 

 ing her Kathryn, after the good sister of 

 the Wright brothers, with Avhom I was in 

 touch, some years ago. Well, the good wife 

 had much trouble in giving birth to the 

 little one — so much so that the doctors de- 

 clared it would not be safe for her to think 

 of having another child. Perhaps I might 

 say her suffering was so great that, ■ after 

 the little one was born, she began sinking, 

 nnd finallv stopped breathing; and I believe 

 the attending physician gave her up as dead. 



