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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



where I was concerned that I would rather 

 lose it myself than to have my neighbor lose 

 it, if one or the other must lose it; in one 

 case I believe each stood half the amount in 

 question. Another thing, after such a 

 transaction has been settled and dropped, 

 do not allow Satan to put it in your mind 

 again. Forgive and forget— that is, if there 

 is any thing to forget. Give your neighbor 

 credit for being as anxious to leave this 

 world with a clear conscience as yourself; 

 and do not, for Heaven's sake, allow a few 

 cents (or even a few dollars) to prejudice 

 you or spoil your faith in humanity or make 

 you unhappy. When we come to die, what 

 difference will it make, any way, whether 

 we have a few dollars more or less? Let 

 us strive, in the language of our text, to 

 "owe no man any thing, but to love one an- 

 other," and, so far as it lies within us, to 

 " hve peaceably with all men." 



THAT WONDERFUL PRAYER, AND THE COM- 

 MENTS BY THE POET BEE-KEEPER. 



Dear Mr. Root:— I am a reader of your lay 

 sermons in Gleanings. I wonder if you 

 will care to see my comments on the Lord's 

 Prayer. At any rate, I take the liberty to 

 enclose a copy. Assuring you of my admi- 

 ration for the work you are trying to do, 

 and praying that you may be spared long to 

 continue it, I am Very sincerely. 



Forest City, la. Eugene Secor. 



OUR FATHER— Oh. the cheering thought 



That God our maker may be sought 

 As one who feels our needs— 



That, as a child in confidence. 



We may approach Omnipotence- 

 He, like a father, heeds. 



WHO ART IN HE A VEN— above our strifes. 

 Our petty cares, the rounds of life's 



Increasing doubts and fears; 

 In calmness and in kindness he 

 Looks down in love on you and me 



While riding heavenly spHferes. 



From striving, faithless, godless marts. 

 Shall men with unclean lips and hearts 



Say HALLOWED BE THY NAME? 

 May lips be pure that speak thy praise. 

 And hearts respond in holy phrase. 



For angels voice the same ? 



THY KINGDOM COME-i£ I so pray. 

 Do I assist to bring that day — 



The day when he shall reign ? 

 And am I ready if my prayer 

 Be granted ? Would I not forbear 



And cling to worldly gain ? 



THY WILL BE DONE Lord, teach us how 

 To say this prayer, and meekly bow. 



Although the heart be riven. 

 May we be granted needful aid 

 Until thy will shall be obeyed 



ON EARTH AS 'TIS IN HEAVEN. 



GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD- 

 From our own toil may we be fed. 



Not others' food we ask; 

 But when we do our very best 

 With cheerfulness, may we be blest. 



Blest in our daily task. 



FORGIVE OUR DEBTS-they're many. Lord, 

 AS WE FORGIVE-ah\ that is hard, 



OUR DEBTORS are so slack! 

 The grace of mercy. Lord, we plead. 

 To feel our brothers' urgent need. 



Nor every farthing take. 



LEAD US-May we in faith be led 

 Where duty points the way, instead 



Of standing, useless, still. 

 NOT INTO TEMPTATION— unless 

 To test the love our lips profess. 



And the fiber of our will. 



But if the tempter visit us. 

 And begs a temporary truce. 



Amid the soul's upheaval 

 Be thou our strength, our sure retreat; 

 Let not the powers of hell defeat— 



DELIVER US FROM EVIL. 



Friend S. , may the Lord be praised because 

 he has put it into your heart to give us this 

 beautiful poem on that wonderful prayer. I 

 am sure it will give every reader of Glean- 

 ings a spiritual uplift, especially if he reads 

 it several times over as I have done; and it 

 has seemed to me that the whole world just 

 now needs this prayer, and the comments 

 you have made on it, more than it ever need- 

 ed it before. In the great rush for gain and 

 the struggles for office it would look as if 

 honesty and fidelity were getting to be some- 

 thing old-fashioned and in danger of being 

 snowed under out of sight. " What shall it 

 profit a man if he shall gain the whole world 

 and lose his own soul?" 



disregarding the law in running auto- 

 mobiles. 

 It rejoices my heart to see that our excel- 

 lent friends of the Farm Journal have 

 suggested something in regard to running 

 automobiles on our common roads where all 

 good people can stand together, and be in 

 agreement. We extract from their issue 

 for June 1 the following: 



(Model for handbill, or poster, to be put up in every 



neighborhood where drivers of gasoline-engines 



violate the law. See Farmers' Problems.) 



AUTOMOBILES, WARNING! 



We, the undersigned citizens of Township, 



County of , do hereby warn all owners and 



drivers of automobiles that we have combined to protect 

 our people against injury to person and property from 

 careless and reckless driving; and that we are resolved 

 to bring punishment to all violators of the automobile 

 laws of the State, without fear or favor. 



1. Therefore we warn you that, if you run your ma- 

 chine faster than the law allows; 



2. If you do not obey the law in meeting and passing 

 vehicles drawn by horses; 



3. If you attempt to get away after causing a run- 

 away, or other accident, without giving satisfaction; 

 and, 



4. If you attempt to use our roads without having a 

 proper license, or if your license number is so obscurely 

 placed or covered with dust that it can not plainly be 

 seen — 



We pledge ourselves to leave no stone unturned to 

 vindicate the laws with respect to the use of our public 

 roads by all kinds of road engines. 



While we have no controversy with any automoblist 

 who decently regards the safety of our citizens and 

 obeys the laws for their protection, the reckless un- 

 principled driver will find that, when he enters our 

 borders, he is in a hostile country, that he is our ene- 

 enemy, and will receive justice but no favors: he will be 

 arrested and punished, as he deserves to be. 



We invite the co-operation of all automobilists who 

 themselves obey the law; and 



