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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1 



supers. Have the helpei's stand on the op- 

 posite side of the table, and have the surface 

 of the table in two parts by nailing a strip in 

 the middle. The sheet of mica should be of 

 the right size to reach across the edge of the 

 foundation. 



One edge of this piece of mica sheet should 

 be strengthened for a handle by nailing two 

 little strips of wood on each side of one edge. 

 If other bee-keepers should think as much of 

 this as I do, hot plates will be used less. I 

 didn't have a sheet drop out; and, though I 

 did the work very rapidly, every one was in 

 right. F. C. HuTCHiNS. 



Massena Springs, N. Y. 



DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN. — A SERMON IN A PAINTING. 



See Our Homes, on opposite paoe. , 



[There is much in getting used to a thing. 

 Your plan is all right, except that it requires 

 several spacing-ljoards and two helpers. 

 The hot-plate method requires only one 

 operator. — Ed.] 



GOETZE'S CELEBRATED PAINTING. 



The picture in the Royal Academy exhibit this year 

 which caused the most sensation is a largre canvas 

 painted by Sigismund Goetze, entitled, "Despised 

 and Rejected of Men . ' ' We give a reproductien of the 

 picture, which, as is easily seen, is a sermon on can- 

 vas. The painter-preacher says that all mankind are 

 indifferent to thf^ Christ, the mother bending over her 

 babe, the man and woman of society, the scientist 

 and the sportsman, the workman and the soldier, 



the ecclesiastic and 

 the literalist — all 

 are as in lifferent to 

 the thorn-crowned 

 Christ as the news- 

 boy shouting the 

 sensation of the 

 hour. 



Of all the throng, 

 only the hospital 

 nurse turns and 

 looks on the Savior, 

 and her face ex- 

 presses more of 

 alarm than aught 

 else. It is a point- 

 ed sermon, yet, per- 

 haps like other sen- 

 sational sermons, it 

 is overdrawn, and 

 hence misleading. 

 Certainly there are 

 thoughts of God in 

 the world. When 

 he Cometh will he 

 not find faith on the 

 the earth? 



The editor of the 

 Ep'wortji Herald 

 says: "It is a ser- 

 mon of the palette 

 and brush, more 

 graphic and and in- 

 cisive than any that 

 has been uttered 

 from the pulpit in 

 many a day. The 

 painter has turned 

 preacher, and the 

 Royal Academy of 

 Ijondon is his pul- 

 pit, 



' But it tells only 

 a part of the story. 

 That part is terri- 

 ble, and should be 

 told; but the other 

 part should be re- 

 cited also, for it is 

 a story of adora- 

 tion, obedience, joy, 

 hope, faith, devo- 

 tion, achievement 

 in the name and for 

 the glory of Jesus 

 Christ, He is to 

 many, alas I an un- 

 known God. But 

 not all have gone 

 with the multitude. 

 There ought to 

 have been room in 

 that picture for the 

 saints of God who 

 are on earth, and 

 who serve him ev- 

 ery day with a 

 sweetness, sinceri- 

 ty, simplicity, and 

 lidelity as pure, 

 true, and great as 

 ever established in 

 sanctity any saint 

 who is in heaven." 



