1878. 



GLEAININGS Ui BEE CULTURE. 



97 



stinctively, seem to feel that cleanliness is 

 next to "good impnlses," and act accord- 

 ingly. Of course all eyes are bent wonder- 

 ingly on you. By their actions, they ask 

 what you want, and what you are going to 

 do. You would probably commence some- 

 what as follows : 



"My little friends, you do not know me 

 very well, do youV Well, we shall soon get 

 acquainted I trust, and then you v. ill have 

 more contidence in me, than you now have. 

 I will tell you what I wish to help you to do. 

 I wish to help you to fix up your little vil- 

 lage, to have the houses all painted, to have 

 neat fences and gardens about them, to 

 have every thing neat, tidy and comforta- 

 ble, and to have you all busy, contented and 

 happy. Have you no money to buy all 

 these things? Well, what is the best way to 

 get money? We are to work for it, are we 

 noty 



"Well now, boys and girls, as well as 

 grown up people, do not always like to 

 work; worse still, they very often v.aste 

 their money, after they have worked for it, 

 and sometimes they steal the money other 

 people have worked hard to get. They 

 often cheat each other. Sometimes the 

 men for whom they work wont pay them, 

 and altogether, there is a great deal bf what 

 we call wickedness in this world. The first 

 thing for us to do, is to resolve to try to be 

 good. You are all willing to try, are you 

 not? 



"Thank you. 'Now it is a pretty hard 

 task, you have undertaken, and there will , 

 be more evil impulses, probably, than you 

 are aware of. You must fight against them. I 

 my friends, and more than all, we shall [ 

 have to bear it, if some who are now among ! 

 us, turn against us and hinder us all they i 

 can. Such is always the case, but we miist i 

 be bold and courageous, and bear in mind j 

 that good impulses in the hearts of people 

 all about us, will spring up, and that we j 

 shall have help in many strange and w on- 

 derful ways, it we only persevere and keep 

 trying."' 



Of course you make good your promises, 

 and set tlie little ones at work, and guide 

 and watch over them. You get no pay for 

 all this in money, but you that have never 

 tried it, have no idea of the good and glori- 

 ous "impulses'" that begin to s'a ell and stir 

 your v.iiole being", of how the vorld grov\s 

 larger, and humanity gro'•^s dearer, as your 

 work goes on ; of ho w life has new charms 

 and existence new and keener thrills of de- 

 light. As these pupils begin, bye and bye, 

 to take hold and help, and as the \' ork be- 

 gins to be taken up by others, and the old 

 grog shops begin to give place to scenes of 

 beauty, and schools and civilization be- 

 gin to change the very atmosphere of all 

 roiuid, tliese good impulses seem to grow 

 into a significance tliat makes one feel as 

 if there w ere in them some mighty pov>-er or 

 some connecting link between our humble 

 selves and the great pui-poses of the creation 

 of the universe. 



A brother of mine says this is nothing but 

 plain common sense; that anybody ^vill be 

 happy \'. Iio goes to \\ ork unselfishly for the 

 good of mankind. Then why do you not do 



it? My sceptical friend in jail, admits that 

 the work of civilizing and educating barbar- 

 ians, has almost all been done by Christian 

 people, and says he does not understand 

 why it is. He says farther, that he thinks 

 it quite likely th{\t they ^' ould never make 

 much progress had they not some univers- 

 ally recognized standard, some flag that 

 they might all rally round, or some solid 

 rock which could not be swayed by the 

 conflict of differing opinions. 



At our last Bible class in jail, a man who 

 has just this very morning gone to tlie pen- 

 itentiary for an attempt to marder, inter- 

 rupted by asking what I thought about 

 eternal pimishment. I told him it was 

 something beyond my comprehension, but 

 that I was willing to trust God to make it 

 all right. He said he did not think it all 

 right by considerable. As the lesson clos- 

 ed, I had a few words with each individu- 

 ally, and as I came to him, I asked him if 

 he could not, in his o^'^n mind, form some 

 idea of what God ought to do, to be just to 

 him, and to every one else. 



He said he thought he could. 



"Will you not consent to abide by the 

 decision of a God who is just and impartial? 

 one who is exactly as ymi know he ought to 

 be?" 



My prayer had been answered ; the sim- 

 ple question placed him before God, not be- 

 fore myself, and it placed him before the 

 God he had himself acknov ledged. In other 

 V ords, the man saw himself as God saw 

 him. I was out of the question, and as he 

 spoke quietly and low. as he gave me his 

 hand, with a softtned look in his eyes, I felt 

 that this poor brother in jail, \^ith the stain 

 of murder on his soul, \^as perhaps nearer 

 the gates of heaven, than some o ho proudly 

 })rochum their good moral lives, a.nd their 

 indilference to a hereafter almiist in the 

 same breath. 



Your ideas of God may not be like mine, 

 but willj'ou submit, and obey God just as 

 you think he should be? It you have com- 

 mitted murder in your heart, w ill you say. 

 give me the punishment that I deser\e but 

 let not the laws God has established lor the 

 good of the universe, be suspended? Can 

 you say, "thy v- ill be done.'' and commence 

 the long V eary years of servitude as has oui- 

 friend, because you know it is just that you 

 should? 



SUMFI.IOTV HIVES, IINTKOIJICING 



Ql^EENS, &€. 



M S our pets are hiid awaj, for their winter nap, 

 >CTV ^ conclude to give you a beginner's experience 

 ^^j for tlie season. We (my "major half" and I), 

 commenced in the spring- with 17 colonies, and in- 

 creased to o'~, 13 of which were natujal swarms and 2 

 artificial. Two others took French lea^e. Seeing so 

 nuich in Gleanings about sections and Simplicity 

 hives, we concluded to send for one to try them. 

 We put a first swaim into it and took 85 lbs. of hen- 

 ry from that one; others no doubt have done better, 

 yet we are very well satisfied wiih that, even if the 

 hive did cost ST.65 before it resched home: and we 

 think for comb honey there is nothing like sections, 

 with starters, and tin separators. We have taken 

 lOGO lbs. of comb honey, and intend to Italianize next 

 season. 



We sent after two, dollar queens, and what a time 

 G. G. had trying to introduce them. We took the 

 old queens from two hives (caging them for reserve), 



