1906 



GLE.V^^INGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1317 



who went to a i-eleljiated sanitarium and re- 

 gained her health. A year latec her health 

 Tailed in the same way. hut they had not the 

 money to send her a seruiid time to a sani- 

 tarium. She told her husband she believed 

 the water out of their own well at home 

 would do just as well if used in the same 

 way. So they rigged up a home-made sani- 

 tarium, and they were delighted to tind it 

 answered every purpose. Now, I do not say 

 this to discourage people from visiting the 

 Black Hills. A change of scene and a change 

 of air, or a change of one's habits, often has 

 much to do with getting over old troubles. 



Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in 

 heaven that one of these little ones should perish.— 

 M.VTT. 18 : 14. 



I have menti(med elsewhere the great 

 wheattields in the far West, and the fact that 

 tor three or four years past the abundant 

 rainfall has given a much larger yield than 

 formerly. NVell, now, these great wheattields, 

 the wheat standing almost as high as your 

 head, have proven to l)e not altogether an 

 unmixed blessing. Children have got lost in 

 those great hclds, and sometimes it has been 

 a difficult matter indeed to find them. Not 

 many weeks ago a girl four years old wan- 

 dered out into the wheat. When the mother 

 failed to tind her she called on the neighbors. 

 I presume likely they had telephones, and 

 soon something like 200 people gathered to 

 find that little girl before nightfall. But 

 they utterly failed. They did what they 

 could during the night by the use of lanterns: 

 but when morning came, nothing had been 

 accomplished. Finally one good man who 

 had more sense than the i*est of them said, 

 •'Friends, this child will die while we are 

 wasting our time. We have just tramped 

 over the same ground, and looked into the 

 same places, and accomplished nothing. We 

 must organize." 



In a little time he had the 200 people pres- 

 ent divided off into squads with a leader, 

 and then they marched through a field just 

 far enough apart so the child would be seen 

 wherever they passed through. In a couple 

 (jf hours she was foimd; but I am sorry to 

 say she was so worn out and used up' by 

 fright and exhaustion that she died within 

 fifteen minutes after she was placed in her 

 mother's arms. Here is a lesson for us in 

 regard to what may be gained by organiza- 

 tion. Had they decided on it the day before, 

 the child might be still living. 



Last Sunday was rally day in the Sunday- 

 school of our church. 1 told them this storv; 



and to make it more realistic I asked a little 

 girl four years old to stand with me on the 

 platform. Other little girls and boys to the 

 number of 100 or more were down in the 

 seats in front of me. I said. "Children, if 

 this little girl were lost in the wheat, how 

 many of you would volunteer to help find 

 her":' Raise your hands. " 



When the hands were all up, young and 

 old. to the number of perhaps two or three 

 hundred, I said: 



"Now, don't you think likely, friends, 

 that not only our whole Sunday-school but 

 the whole town of Medina would turn out 

 just for one little girl?" They seemed to 

 think it quite probable. 1 went on: 



"Children, how much is this little girl 

 worth? How many dollars could we afford 

 to spend rather tlian let her die out in the 

 wheattields?" The children looked from one 

 to another, evidently puzzled at the thought 

 of putting the matter on a money basis. 

 Finally when I suggested that the little girl 

 I held by the hand was worth a million of 

 dollars, several of the children nodded their 

 heads approvingly. I then suggested that, if 

 this were true, there was quite a lot of prop- 

 erty — yes, exceedingly valuable property — in 

 that Sunday-school of ours. In closing, I 

 read them the text at the head of my talk 

 to-day to show what God thinks of the "value 

 of our children. Governor Hanly, of Indi- 

 ana, is not only a great orator, but he is a 

 great reformer. He has been teaching the 

 whole world some valuable lessons in regard 

 to the importance of enforcing iaw^ Here is 

 a clipping from one of his speeches, which I 

 clip from the Ohio Messenger: 



"I would rather have the beaming .'.mile of one 

 boy saved from the dens of iniquity oy my law 

 enforcement than the combined vote of the beverage- 

 liquor traffic and its simpathizers." 



It was my good pleasure to listen for 

 something like two hours to an address by 

 Governor Hanly, only a few weeks ago. I 

 did not get tii-ed a bit; and I am glad to 

 inform you that he is to make the opening 

 speech before the great meeting of the Ohio 

 Anti-saloon League, to be held in Columbus, 

 Nov. 13, 18. Just now Ohio is going through 

 a crisis. One town after another is holding 

 an election to see whether it shall be saloon 

 or no saloon. A gootl many business men 

 are afraid to come out and show their colors. 

 They will own up that saloons are detri- 

 mental to Imsiness, without any question: 

 but they will not permit you to use their 

 names on the list so that all the world may 

 know they are going to work for temperance 

 and vote dry. AJany political men are cow- 

 ardly in the same way: but not so with Gov- 

 ernor Hanly. Just read that extract ag;iin. 

 He would I'ather have the beaming smile of 

 one hox saved than the combined vote of the 

 entire liquor-ti"affic and its sympathizers. 

 But Governor Hanly is not going to lack 

 support when he comes out like that, neither 

 will any other good man. 



Just now we are preparing for a Beal 

 election-law contest here in Medina. Eight 

 years ago we had a vote along the same 



