1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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bring' its reward and to enlarge the sphere 

 of activity ( and the wages) of the one who 

 is faithful. Have you longed for more op- 

 portunities? have you wished that you had 

 a little more power that you could bring to 

 bear when things are moving' so slowly? 

 Well, the promise of our text is true. God 

 and your fellow-men are measuring you; 

 and as fast as j'ou can bear more responsi- 

 bility you shall have it. Every little while 

 I run across some boy or girl who has 

 made a pretty good record, and people are 

 beginning to bid for them. Everybody is 

 surprised at the salarj' they are offered. 

 The}' saj', "Why, that man is not worth 

 any such money as that — he can not earn 

 it." But pretty soon some other institution 

 gets its ej'C on him, and he goes higher 

 still. Then is the time that this person 

 wants to be careful about getting— I should 

 like to say the " big- head," but I do not 

 like the expression. Then is the time when 

 this person is in danger of losing his Chris- 

 tianity. We should think that, with pro- 

 motion, he would thank God and be more 

 regular in his attendance at the prayer- 

 meetings, and other religious services; but 

 too often it is the other way. O dear 

 friends, let nothing- tempt you to forsake 

 the religion of j'our fathers — to forsake that 

 good old Bible from which I have taken my 

 text. Let nothing tempt you to forget how 

 God answered j'our pra3'ers when you were 

 humble and meek. "Blessed are the meek, 

 for they shall inherit the earth." 



DIVINE HEALING, ETC. 



Bro. A. I. Root: — One year ago a preacher from a 

 northern city settled here who claims to be sane ified. 

 They (himself and wife) go by the name of divine 

 healers — that is, they claim that, through God, they 

 have power to heal all bodily diseases, no matter of 

 what nature they may be. They have built a very 

 fine church, but claim that no man must have his 

 name on the church-book They say that, after a man 

 is once converted, it is impossible fir him to sin. He 

 will not attend our churches, and claims our ministers 

 do not preach the gospel. He does not believe in 

 medicine, and says it's the Devil's work. Bro Root, 

 will you please give us your views on the above mat- 

 ter through the columnsof Gleanings? 



Grove Hill, Va. C H.May. 



Friend M., if I am correct, this matter of 

 divine healing has puzzled not only philan- 

 thropists but some of our best doctors of di- 

 vinity; and perhaps no better advice can be 

 given to the world generally than the old 

 text so much quoted: "By their fruits ye 

 shall know them." When our Savior went 

 abroad through the world healing the sick 

 and casting out devils, good fruit followed 

 his work. There never was any question 

 about it, and I admit that for a time it 

 seemed as if good and nothing' but good was 

 coming from the work of some of our divine 

 healers. I think we should, however, al- 

 wajs regard with suspicion any person or 

 organization that leads people away from 

 orthodox churches. Our older readers all 

 well know that I for a time strongly upheld 

 Dowie. When he began his attack on "doc- 

 tors, drugs, and devils," I think that every 

 good man and woman must have felt that 



he was in the wrong. Of course, there are 

 doctors and druggists who might with some 

 propriety be classed with devils; but he 

 certainly is not warranted in his whole- 

 sale denunciations of the physicians of the 

 world, nor in saying that our sickness is 

 the work of the Devil. Very likely when 

 you see this in print you can tell us that 

 the church you describe is losing its hold 

 on the people. 



KEEPING POTATOES OVER WINTER IN THE 

 TRAVERSE REGION. 



Some time last July, when our potatoes in 

 Medina were all too badly sprouted and 

 wilted to be really fit to eat, I visited my 

 neighbor Hilbert, and found they had Rus- 

 set potatoes just as dry and mealy, and 

 just as nice for the table, as at any season 

 of the year. I was surprised, and asked 

 how he managed to keep them in good or- 

 der till July. He said he did not manage 

 at all, but just kept them down cellar. 

 Then I asked him if he did not open the 

 outside door nights, and close it daytimes. 

 His wife replied that the outside door had 

 been open day and night ever since there 

 was no danger of the potatoes freezing. I 

 requested permission to take a lamp and go 

 down and examine the potatoes, and see the 

 cellar. I found the outside door (on the 

 north side of the house) wide open; but the 

 bin where the potatoes were kept, right on 

 the ground, was in a remote corner of the 

 cellar, behind some central bins, so that no 

 light and very little warm air got near 

 them. The place was both cool and dry. 

 The potatoes were in nice condition for 

 either table or market. I think the sprouts 

 had been rubbed off just once. I asked 

 him if it would not pay big to keep pota- 

 toes in this way to be sold on the market in 

 July, or when new potatoes are at their 

 highest notch. He said he had often done 

 this, and got a bigger price for them than 

 at any other season of the year. 



Well, I made up my mind then and there 

 that I was going to have a place to keep 

 potatoes that would do it successfully with- 

 out the fussing to open and close doors, etc. 

 Well, my friends, 1 have it, and am "hap- 

 py." I have told you something about our 

 barn with stone underpinning. At one cor- 

 ner there is a large outside door, wide 

 enough to run in the wheelbarrow handily. 

 To get the wheelbarrow to run on level 

 ground, we dug a sort of ditch or channel. 

 This answered also for drainage for the 

 cellar if any water should come into it by 

 hook or crook. As we have eavespouts on 

 the barn I think no water has ever got in. 



Well, the cellar is not all dugout; but we 

 dug a narrow room, say six feet wide, deep 



