1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



39 



Any one who could be so good to me as he was alive 

 could not forget me in death. 



■' I lived as Mr Kimberly's wife for five years. Dur- 

 ing that time his relatives his nephews, and others vis- 

 ited us constantly. ' Pete,' I used to say to him, ' what 

 can people think of us?' He used to answer me,' Well, 

 don't they come here? Why borrow trouble?' " 



"I never used his name except when we traveled, 

 and then he would register me as his wife at hotels. 

 In New York and San Francisco and other cities I met 

 all his best friends, who knew that I was not his wife. 

 I knew that this was not right, but what could I do? I 

 wondered at the power of money. What can't money 

 do? His friends seemed to think it all right." 



There it is, friends. This poor wgrnan 

 was comparatively helpless in the clutches 

 of that millionaire with all his money— at 

 least she supposed she was helpless. She 

 savs, "1 wondered at the power of money. 

 What can not money do ?" There you have 

 it. This rich man defied public opinion. He 

 defied the laws of our land. He passed this 

 woman off as his wife at respectable hotels 

 when he had a legal wife living; because he 

 had money, and could do things on a large 

 scale, everybody bowed down to him. His 

 relatives came and visited him just as if it 

 were all right. Now, suppose this thing gets 

 to be more common — what will be the result? 

 And, finally, what satisfaction or enjoyment 

 could this man get out of life? I wonder if 

 he ever considered what his example was to 

 the younger ones growing up. The man who 

 can reflect, when he comes to die, that he 

 has "fought the good fight and kept the 

 faith," as Paul said he had done, can feel 

 willing to have the younger ones copy his ex- 

 ample. He has laid up treasures in heaven. 

 His good name can not be taken from him. 

 Moth and rust will never harm it. But this 

 other one— this millionaire who set an ex- 

 ample of going about the world with a wo- 

 man who was not his wife, where is his 

 treasure? what does he look forward to, and 

 what has he to feel happy about when he 

 comes to die? Jesus tola us the fate of such 

 as he in the following: 



The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they 

 shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 

 and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a 

 furnace of fire; there shall be wailing, and gnashing of 

 teeth. -Matt. 13: 41, 42. 



Dear friends, as I approach the close of 

 this home paper my conscience troubles me 

 because I have had so much to say about lay- 

 ing up treasures on earth and the selfishness 

 of humanity. Let me give you another 

 glimpse that includes quite a lot of humani- 

 ty: 



Incoming home from Indianapolis I shook 

 hands with an officer of the Salvation Army, 

 and began laughing at him because he could 

 not remember me. Then it transpired that 

 he was somebody else. I was in the predic- 

 ament of the Irishman who met a friend, as 

 he supposed; but when they began calling 

 each other by name he said, "Faith, and it 

 turned out to he nayther of us." Well. I 

 have learned to take it on general principles 

 that any one belonging to the Salvation Army 

 is my friend and I am his. And now let me 

 digress a little. 



When the papers announced a few months 

 ago that Ashland, the county- seat of Ash- 



land Co., Ohio, had suddenly gone dry, every- 

 body was astonished, for it is a place of sev- 

 eral thousand inhabitants, and a number of 

 saloons have been rampant there as long as 

 anybody can remember. This Salvation 

 Army officer explained to me how it happen- 

 ed—that is, if it really did happen. There 

 has been an organization of the Salvation 

 Army in Ashland a good many years; but it 

 had become run down, and its members 

 were half-hearted. A short time ago a Ger- 

 man boy in his teens was taken into their 

 ranks. This boy astonished everybody by 

 his zeal and energy in pleading for the Lord 

 Jesus Christ in season and out of season. He 

 built up the Salvation Army and started re- 

 vivals in the churches; but right ia the 

 midst of his work, by some inscrutable act 

 of Providence (or was it some man's folly?) 

 he lost his life. Bat the work he had start- 

 still went on. In fact, his sudden death, 

 perhaps from overwork in pleading for 

 righteousness, seemed to give it a new im- 

 petus; and this was the start of a temper- 

 ance crusade that banished the saloons from 

 Ashland. The result was as it was at Leip- 

 sic as I told you about in our previous issue 

 —a great revival startei. In the Cleveland 

 Press for Dec. 7 we find the following: 



HUGE TABERNACLE BUILT IN 22 HOURS FOR A REVIVAL. 



Ashland County is in the midst of a reliifious awak- 

 ening so widespread as to con pel the hasty coni-truction 

 of a huge bainlike tabernacle to accommodate th'' va t 

 throngs which attend the meeiings. Tae revival feel- 

 ing has penetrated to practically every hoaie in the 

 city; and businessmen, merchants, laborers, and people 

 of all classes have joined hands with the R- v. \I. B. Wil- 

 liams, the evangelist in charge, iu making the revival a 

 success. 



In such deadly earnest are the people of .Ashland that 

 the tabernacle, which will hold 2700 persons, and which 

 is dedicated solely to evangelistic sei vices, was built 

 in 22 hours. Men of all classes joined hanJs to erect it. 



ALL JOIN IN WOKK. 



Lumber-dealers furnished bailding material; a real- 

 estate dealer donated the ground, and an army of enthu- 

 siastic volunteers gave a day's labor to assist in the 

 construction of the huge building. 



The revival began a week ago in the armory, the 

 largest building in this town of 6000 i. habitants. In a 

 few days the attendance jjrew so rapiiiy that this 

 building was dwarfed, and the necessity for more com- 

 modious quarters forced the erection of the tab rnacl ^ 

 One meetmg of the enthusiasts was sufficient to raise 

 the necessary money, and ttie work was begun at once. 



Young men and old, from factory and building; car- 

 penters^ plumbers, gas-fitters, business men, common 

 laborers, and others less skilled, drove nails, sawed 

 boards, fitted pipe, hauled straw, graded, and did a 

 thousand and one things necessary for the construction 

 of the improvised house of worship. 



The structure is 95 by 130 feet, consuming 45.000 feet 

 of lumber. It is 25 feet in the highest point, and it is 

 lighted and heated by natural gas. The floor of the 

 tabernarle is mother earth, covered with three loads of 

 matted straw, and the place is dry, sanitary, ventilated, 

 and without draft. 



It is manifest from the outpouring humanity at the 

 services, which borders on the sensational, that Dr. 

 Williams has the united support of every Christian 

 worker in the county. Dr. Williams is a forceful speak- 

 er, possessed of wonderful resources, and a fearless, 

 aggressive campaigner. 



There are 200 voices in the choir, which is conducted 

 by Prof. Loay Sutherland, a singing evangelist of 

 Shelby, Mich. 



These services are under the auspices of the Ashland 

 Ministerial Association: and the tabernacle feature, 

 being an entirely new departure along evangelistic 

 lines in Ohio, promises to spread over this State and 

 out of it. There have been 139 conyei-sions, with pros- 

 pects for more. 



