1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1015 



They are at once a shippinjif-packag^e and 

 a retailer's package. We would urge the 

 bee-keepers, if they begin the production of 

 bulk honey, to insist on having those cans 

 so that there will be a standard in the 

 United States the same as there is already 

 in Texas. 



I believe that, when we can get a pure- 

 food law, and put up comb honey in a waj' 

 that will not granulate, we have the honey 

 of the future, and, as I have said b°fore, I 

 am looking to the time when it will be uni- 

 versally produced. H. H. Hydk. 



Floresville, Texas, Oct. 6. 



Let no man judge you in respect ... of the sab- 

 bath— Col. -2 : IG. 



Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work : but 

 the seventh day is the sabbath of the l,ord thy God. — 

 Ex AJ : 9, 10. 



Some of our older readers may remember 

 that I have once or twice considered briefly 

 the matter of having Sunday on the wrong 

 day of the week. In consideration of the 

 fact that so many good friends who take 

 Gleanings hold that Saturdaj^ is the right 

 da)', instead of the day that the most of 

 the world has chosen, I had thought I 

 would not take the subject up again. God 

 knows I do not wish to hurt the feelings of 

 anybod}'; neither do I wish to dictate to 

 others how or on what day they shall wor- 

 ship Goti ; but because I think there are 

 quite a few who would like to hear m}' opin- 

 ion on the subject, I will go over it briefly 

 again. 



Since we talked about selling honey on 

 Sunday I have had three letters, insisting 

 that the good brothers can sell as much 

 honey on Sunday as they like, without 

 transgressing any of Gods laws. One of 

 the three took me to task so roughly, and 

 looked down on me so patronizinglj', I filed 

 his letter away without answering it at all, 

 and that is something I very seldom do. 

 Where a writer asks for a repl)', or evident- 

 ly expects something in the way of recog- 

 nition, I ver}' rarely neglect giving him an 

 answer. The letter I append below seems 

 to be written in a verj' good spirit, and I 

 take pleasure in submitting it: 



A. I. Root: — My dear brother, I hope you will par- 

 don me for differing with you on a point of the )logy. 

 It seems to me that you are a little off wht-n you say 

 that Sunday was set apart by God as his holy sabbath. 

 I undrrsland the Hible to teach that he s-et'apart 'he 

 seventh day. or Salu day. as it is now called, as his 

 sabt)ath, and commaiidtd all men to keep it holy. 

 Chiist and hi-, apostles evidently kept it. and I can 

 cot find any place in the scriptures whe'cGod ever 

 changed the day. or sabt>ith, or authorizei any one 

 else to change it If you know any place in the Bit>le 

 that authoriz- s such a change, you will greatly oblige 

 myself and others if you will point out the chapter 

 and ver>-e. K. Stinson. 



ButierSeld, Ark., Oct. H. 



Dear friends, if you expect me to take up 



this matter point by point you will be dis- 

 appointed. It would be out of place in a 

 journal like this. Perhaps I might as well 

 say here that I can not take space for reply 

 unless the replies offer something I have 

 not heard before. I have read more on the 

 subject than I ever expect to read again. 

 Yes, I feel almost like saying I have wast- 

 ed more time in reading the printed matter 

 the good friends have sent me than I can 

 afford to waste again. I have hunted up 

 references from my Bible; but I hope these 

 friends will excuse me when I tell them 

 there is nothing in iny Bible, from begin- 

 ning to end, that would indicate to 7ne the 

 great Father would be pleased to have us 

 change our present Sunday to Saturday. 

 My opinion is he would be displeased to 

 have us waste our time on so unimportant a 

 matter. If these good friends really insist 

 we are making a great mistake in having 

 our rest day on the first day of the week in- 

 stead of the seventh, then I would suggest 

 that the shortest and easiest remedy would 

 be to call Monday the first day of the week, 

 and then Sunday would be the seventh. 

 That ought to suit everybody all around; 

 but, if I am correct, these zealous friends of 

 ours stoutly reject this solution of their dif- 

 ficulty. I say their difficulty, because a 

 very great majority of the Christian world 

 does not see any difficulty at all. You will 

 remember how the Savior rebuked the 

 Pharisees for their foolish notions about the 

 sabbath. You will remember, too, what he 

 said about straining out a gnat and swal- 

 lowing a camel; and it really seems to me 

 as if this were a fair illustration of mak- 

 ing so much ado about Sunda}- being the 

 wrong day when this world is actually so 

 full of sin and crime. 



Monda)' is the first working da)'^ of the 

 week; and I was a grown-up man with con- 

 siderable intelligence (you may smile, but 

 what I say is actually true) before I knew 

 that people generally called Sunday the 

 first daj' of the week. Well, now, if you 

 prove to me that the whole wide world rec- 

 ognizes Sunday as the first day, and may 

 be the laws of our land declare it so, it 

 would not make one bit of difference with 

 my opinion in regard to the matter. I 

 would still insist that it would be a thou- 

 sand times easier to make Monday the first 

 day of the week than it would to have peo- 

 ple generally the world over throw every 

 thing out of joint in an eft'ort to have Sun- 

 daj' on vSaturday, especially with the view 

 in mind that the great God above, the Cre- 

 ator of the universe, would be pleased by 

 such a revolution. When the matter was 

 first brought to my attention, years ago, be- 

 fore I was a Christian, I said the peculiar 

 position taken by the seventh-day people 

 had no reason back of it. All of God's laws 

 are founded on reason and common sense. 

 If we do not see it at once, our Bible students 

 and our ministers of the gospel can give us 

 information in regard tothe whys and where- 

 fores. Let me tell you a little story. 



When it first became fashionable to use a 



