Smyrna times., 1855-05-09
Honey Catches more Flies than Vine

We still hold forth upon this sweet faith. 1t .
is the gospel of the world, 1t is the popular
gospel IL makes man friends aud gets him
more coppers than kicks. A man who lives
this faith, never gets to himself7-eRemies. 1t
is with him all places and with all men. 1t
makes him at home with the Viest.. Heneyer
comes in collision with other mems opinions
Heis chameleon, ever taking the color of the
object nearest. He is good or bad as the hour
or the company may demand. He feels the
ennobng reflection that men remark as he !
passes, :" There goes a man who agrees with
everybody, and has no opinion of his own."--
He is the man who catches the, flies. His,
honey is more attractive than the fRted .foulness
| by the roadside.
Friends! soe believe in the gospel Of kind
ness. 1t is one OF beauty and power. In the
darkest hours of the darkest careers, it has
smltten the heart-rock and brought forth peni-
tentlal waters. 1t is an anchor of steel in the
bosom of the erring. 1t soothes in sorrow and
redeems in crime. And now, friends, doesn't
such gospel make it the duty of men to strike
hands with wickedness, so as not to iniure the
feelings of the wicked! To live and die
moral coward ! To enter tophet with hymn
book, and sing psalms, and to hunt and fish
with the devils on Sundays, with the hope of
making angels Of them!
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may DO for the heathen, but our wise ones can't
be come over by any such fxins. What non
sense to mingle reproof with hOnied Kindness
What faith for hy-catchers 10 believe in =
How many flies do you expect to catch with
; honey, when you twit 'em of eating carrion
. with the same relish
Look at the Revolution, friends, where our
fathers fout for-hic-liberty." How they
acted Fanaticsm was the order of the day.
They pretended to think it their duty to fight
the mother country. They got up muss on
-, the 9th of March in the streets of Boston, and
: some of them were killed by the means. In.
stead of using honey, they made infammatory
speeches., and to crown their infamous meddlna
- with other peoples business, they up and spill
a whole ship-lOad of tea into the ocean, They
: could not have but expected trouble and blooi
:, shed after such destruction of propertv.-
Had these men bore everything like good Chris
=, tlans bought the beverage at British prices
: and supported the British prices and supported
:. the British troops like go. d. peaceful citizens
: it would have saved a world of trouble Bu
" they would not mind their own business The
- would constantly be meddling with affairs
= What terrible g hellabaloO" their Jaws Otise:
70 Quncys and Adamses, kicked up III old Faneu
- Hall! And all about affairs too, which did nc
=, - concern 'em one mite! And the result wa,
= that at Lexington, many poor fellow got sho
- All this blOodshed, it was easy to see, mpl
= have been spared. 1t would not have been
=, they had minded their own affairs. If the
:, had paid the taxes levied upon them, and bee
ot consistent followers of the honey fdith, tll
" cOntounded muss of the Revolutionary wa
- " would not have been. There would have bee
~ ~ peace in the colonies, and-a great many fit
~ catched! But tanaticism took to saltpetre IL
- - stead of honey, and kept up perfect row abou
- nothing, for seven years. Friends do yo
remember that the British stood their groun
" and refused to be drove! You can't drive folk
~ The more you undertake TO drive 'em, the MOI
they won't 60. You can coax a iackass {
+ mean hog, but you can't drive 'cm. TIL
=, coercion won't answer at all. All hstor
~ proves that it has ever produced a row. Whi
~ :" regular, unjustfable, needless, plug mus
,;s that Martin Luther got up about the wicke,
Il ness of Popery. 1t has caused a world of di
90 sension and bloodshed "Our holy church
- was selling her induigences and making m,
= ley IN peace But the so-called reformer bega
=; has meddling, and soon had nations in qua
- rel. He ought to have had a shingle put
'f' him for such cantankerous deviltry. If Il
rl' people wanted indulgences, whose business W,
an it!
- Friends, honey is the thing. 1t is the gosp
~ for Hebron. Had not meddling eastern va O
:" bond come like wolf into our midst, and a
~ sailed the time-hOnOred institution of drunkar
"a making, not word would have been said abo
~ ~ 1t in public, and all would have been peace III;
~ he used honey, and spent his leisure time in Il
- drunkery, and believed a shameless rowdy
:, pattern of moral excellence and purity, sa
~ vagabOnd would have been an unobectonab
-. temperance man. But he used vinegar and
IS :; will not catch flies, for cGrri0n is sweeter.
a.. Use honey, dear friends, and many flies sha
~ ~, be added unto you.
ms 80 mote it be !-CdyMgd Chief