1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



507 



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He trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him. 

 Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 

 —Psalm 33: 8. 



^HE words of our little text to-day were 

 Qrst uttered to David, and afterward 

 in nearly the same way to our Savior 

 while on the cross. And throughout all ages 

 ungodly men have had a way of laughing 

 and jeering at those who put their trust in 

 God, especially when the time of trial comes, 

 and, so far as human sight can go, these 

 trusting ones are left, as it were, alone to bear 

 the trials and vicissitudes common to all hu- 

 manity. David, it would seem, had his full 

 share of severe trials to encounter ; although 

 he put his trust in God in a way that, per- 

 haps, none other ever did, yet God saw lit 

 to allow him to be persecuted and maligned 

 and misrepresented and abused ; an outcast 

 and a wanderer, he fled from the bitter per- 

 secutions and hatred of one who should have 

 been his best friend. Skeptics and inlidels 

 and idolaters laughed at his troubles, and 

 jeered at what seemed to them his folly in 

 still putting his trust in God. A few verses 

 before the one where our text comes, it 

 seems almost plaintive where he says,— 



But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of 

 men, and despised of the people. All they that see 

 me laueh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they 

 shake the head. 



It would almost seem, friends, as if we 

 could see them as they get around him in his 

 trials and troubles. That expression, "• They 

 shoot out the lip " ! poor David ! Do you 

 not long to be near him and to cheer him and 

 to encourage him, and to repeat to him some 

 of those beautiful texts, and to say to him, 

 fear not ? It seems to be God's purpose to 

 let his children have sore troubles, yet it is 

 said, '■'■ Whom he loveth he chasteneth." It 

 would almost seem at times as though he 

 purposely left, us alone to try us. But all 

 those who have trusted him know that when 

 he has proved us, and when he sees that our 

 faith is unflinching, then comes that won- 

 derful sense of his presence and his love 

 — the rewards that only he can give, and^ 

 that amply compensates for all the troubles 

 and trials we have passed through. Hu- 

 manity seems so constituted that even the 

 most trusting at times have temptations and 

 doubts. God has delivered them and car- 

 ried them safely through all troubles and 

 trials heretofore ; but a new and unexpected 

 one comes up, and they fall to questioning. 

 Can he, will he, take me safely through this 

 trial y Alas for poor humanity ! Knowing 

 that we are weak and sinful, we begin to 

 doubt God's love. We begin to doubt our- 

 selves too. We begin to wonder, and it is 

 well we do so, whether our hearts are really 

 right before him. Are we honest with our- 

 selves V Are we saying truthfully, by word 

 and action , — 



Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a 

 right spirit within me'? 



Such has been my experience, friends. I 

 have told you year after year, ever since 

 these Home Papers commenced, of my tri- 



als and my triumphs. A little over a year 

 ago I was" praying, and, I am sorry to say, 

 worrying, about the issue of that trouble 

 where I feared I should have a large amount 

 of money to pay, up into the thousands, per- 

 haps, for one who advertisAl in Gleanings. 

 You know how deliverance came, and that 

 the friends who had lost, the greater part of 

 them, refused to accept payment for me. 



Some months ago, in answer to an inqui- 

 ry, I said that Mr. Forncrook had not com- 

 menced any suit against me, but only threat- 

 ened. To be consistent, perhaps I should 

 tell you now that he has commenced, and 

 lays his damages up into the thousands. It 

 is not a personal matter either ; for, if I have 

 made no mistake, he claims the right to mo- 

 nopolize the manufacture of all honey-boxes 

 made from one piece of wood. That there 

 may be no mistake about the matter, I copy 

 from his circular and advertisements, as fol- 

 lows : 



The patent covers any section made of one piece of 

 wood, of whatever description; therefore, we hope 

 manufacturers and dealers will govern themselves 

 accordingly. 



Now, the great point with me is to be sure 

 that my cause is a right and a just one — to 

 be sure that I have a right to ask God to 

 help us resist this, as it seems to me, an at- 

 tempt to blackmail the bee-keepers of our 

 land. A patent has been granted to Mr. 

 Forncrook for a one-piece section, as has 

 been heretofore explained ; but he broadly 

 claims, as you see, all honey-boxes made of 

 one piece of wood. I have pointed out to 

 you before the description of a one-piece 

 honey-box, given in Gleanings awav back 

 in LS7B. I give a reprint of the letter below: 



SECTION FRAMES AND HONEY BOXES. 



Ed. Glcanimjs: 



1 see by Gleanings for March, that J. I. Johnson, 

 Palmyra, N. Y., asks a preventive of bees running 

 the combs together in section boxes. I will tell you 

 what I did last summer, and it worked to a charm. 

 I had 8 stands of bees in double hives, ray own make, 

 Quinby suspended frame. 30 frames in hive. I made 

 lUO lbs. box, 150 in sections, and 50 extracted honey. 

 I live on a public road, and people constantly passing 

 wanted a few pounds of honey; of course, they had 

 nothing to hold it. Well, I thought about a section 

 box; 1 could get nothing to make them of easily, so 

 I got some peach-box covers and some strawberry- 

 box stuff, and ripped them up in ooe-inch strips (I 

 suppose you know how a strawberry-box is, cut 

 half through at each corner, and nailed at one side; 

 but the veener must be wet over night before bend- 

 ing; it then works nicely). I then put a piece of 

 comb in the top, 1 inch square (would prefer drone 

 comb if white); in some I stuck little bits of wax 

 along the under side of top. When filled they 

 weighed from one to two lbs. each. Only two sec- 

 tions out of the 150 lbs. were conaected. I sold all 

 my honey at the house, for cash, comb honey 35 c, 

 extracted 20 c. I had more demand for the little 

 sections than any other. I put the sections in the 

 frames both in the front and back of the hive. I 

 think the coi^ foundation for the sections a grand 

 hit. One hiv^ made 90 lbs. comb honey. B'sidos 

 the 300 lbs. honey, I had 6 swarms from the 8 hives, 

 making 34 all in good order to start with this spring. 



Alex. Pidoes. 



P. S.— I may say that I put sections on top, but 

 frost came about the middle of Sept., and there was 

 no more honey. 



Centralia, III., March 8, 1876. 



Besides this, descriptions of sections made 

 of one piece of wood are found all along 

 through these years past. In April No. of 

 the American Bee Journal for 1879, we find 

 the following : 



