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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1 



will excuse me if I have not given it from 

 memory just as he said it. 



Now, friends, while he was speaking I was 

 wondering if it were beyond the possibilities 

 of the future to expect that we might have 

 such men as he is, or, perhaps I should say, 

 such a man as he described, to hold the 

 important offices in the affairs of our State 

 and nation. I shall have something more to 

 say on this subject; but before doing so I 

 wish to mentiun that, when he suggested 

 we should all kneel in prayer, almost every 

 one in that little church knelt, and on 

 bended knees took part in prayer. While 

 we knelt in prayer many broke forth in 

 a verse of some of the beautiful hymns 

 we had been singing; and after we arose 

 there were testimonies all around as to 

 how each and every one was progressing 

 in the Christian warfare. Many said they 

 felt too tired to think of going to meeting 

 when the time for meeting came; but they 

 all united in declaring they felt rested, and 

 were refreshed, and were glad that they 

 came. In several prayers my name was 

 mentioned, and they gave me more credit, 

 I am sure, than I deserve. Oh. how I did 

 thank God that it was my privilege to have 

 a part in building up that Httle church off 

 there among the hills that seemed to me 

 then, and seems to me now, as 1 think of it 

 as a glimpse of heaven here on earth ! It 

 made me think of the description of Pente- 

 cost in olden times. 



After the meeting was over they asked 

 me to write letters to them that might be 

 read aloud to all the members of that little 

 church, and they promised to give me regu- 

 lar reports of the progress. 



As the snows are very deep there in the 

 latter part of winter, a good many times, 

 these big stalwart men promised to make 

 paths for the women and children to go to 

 church. The schoolhouse is opposite the 

 church, so that these paths and roadways 

 will be. needed as much for the schoolchil- 

 dren as for the church. 



Now, friends, suppose that little church 

 in its unselfish devotion ^nd loving relations 

 among its members were enlarged so as to 

 include the whole United States.* What 

 would be the effect in doing away with the 

 shameful scenes of trickery and fraud being 

 unearthed from day to day? I suppose we 

 must have penitentiaries and jails and work- 

 houses for a while at least; but, dear me ! 

 how much better it would be to convert 

 these sinners to the Lord Jesus Christ before 

 they get bad. and let the love of Christ be 

 the constraining power instead of prison 

 walls and manacles of steel! 



* Friend Acklin. of St. Paul. Minn., sends us some 

 newspaper clipping's that tell of a wonderful revival 

 now going on in that city and its neighbor, Minneapolis. 

 Some 25,000 are in attendance, and thousands are 

 converted. Even where the largest halls and audito- 

 riums are chosen, there was only standing room for 

 many of the pi ople. At a recent conference of our 

 churches a speiiker, in Alluding to the recent frauds 

 that are being < xposed and brought to light, said these 

 emphasized the crying need of real Christianity more 

 than any thing else that had ever happened since the 

 world began. 



I have been teaching a class in Sunday- 

 school, as you may know, all my life— at 

 least all my religious life. May Gud forgive 

 me fur those wasted years in the early part 

 of my life. Well, I have plead arid prayed 

 for many a boy, and I have watched them 

 in after-years and rejoiced to see them grow 

 up in godliness and purity to serve their 

 fellow- men. I do not know why it is, but 

 almost always the superintendent for some 

 reason has a.^signed me a class of boys in 

 their teens. Sooner or later the boys drift 

 into my care or else I drift around to preside 

 over them, and in some way or other it 

 seems as if the great Father so managed 

 that the uneasy and sometimes unruly boys 

 should be put in my charge. I have some- 

 times thought it something of a hardship; 

 and then, again, when these same unruly 

 boys became steady, sober, faithful church- 

 members, I felt glad that it had been my 

 privilege to work and pray for them. Well, 

 years ago there was one particular boy in 

 my class who seemed to take del ght in pro- 

 pounding strange questions. I thought some- 

 times, too, he asked those questions just to 

 bring out a discussion. That boy set me to 

 thinking, and 1 do not know but he set me 

 to praying more than any other boy in my 

 class. He finally turned his attention to lit- 

 erary work, and quite early in life furnished 

 some articles for the papers that attracted 

 a great deal of attention. He startles peo- 

 ple by doing unexpected things, and several 

 times I have congratulated him and told 

 him I felt proud to see one of my old pupils 

 coming out so boldly and taking an advanced 

 stj'p in the great needed reforms of the day. 

 One of my happy surprises in this line was 

 when I got hold of a copy of. the Medina 

 Gazette (of which this buy is now editor) 

 away up in my Michigan home, a few days 

 ago. An editorial in this I am going to copy 

 here. If any of you may suggest that this 

 matter pertains particulairly to the State of 

 Ohio, I wish to reply that it hits all of us, 

 for there is much the same state of affairs 

 in every State in the Union. The matter 

 touched on is of so much consequence that 

 there is not the shadow of an excuse for 

 claiming that it is out of place in a bee jour- 

 nal. Every periodical in our land, no mat- 

 ter what sort of industry or class it repre- 

 sents, should be ready to open its pages 

 when the thieves and midnight assassins are 

 at our very doors. Now read the following, 

 and see if 1 am not right about it. 

 - WHY WE. BOLT HIM. 



The name of Myron T. Ilerrick does not appear 

 at tlie head of the Republican ticket placed in our 

 columns to-day, and its omission is not unintentional. 

 It means that the Gasetle can not support Mr. Her- 

 rick for governor, liowever much it dislikes to be in 

 opposition to any Republican candidate for office. 

 And when a patty paper that has unswervingly sup- 

 ported all the candidates of one party for 50 con- 

 tinuous years believes the occasion has arisen to re- 

 fuse its support to one of its party's candidates for 

 a great office, that paper should have good reason for 

 its action, and declare such reason fully, honestly, 

 and fearlessly — and this we purpose here to do. 



Mr. Herrick's second nomination was at the dic- 

 tation of a disreputable boss in Cincinnati, in de- 

 fiance of such a popular protest as was never before 



