The Newtown bee., 1893-01-13
THE BEE BUZZ.

THE BEE BUZZ. The Good Boy and the Dream.-Seeing Through Imperfect Mediums. .-Cheerfulness in Duty Health of Body and of Soul Once there was d good man who had three sons. One night the youngest son dreamed that he was very good; and be- ing awakened out of his sleep by the moonshine which was very bright in his room, he arose and said his prayers.
 The more he thought about his dream the more pleased he was with himself that he was so pious; and being wakeful he was moved with curiosity to take q look at his brothers, whom he found sleeping quietly and soundly. Finally, he was so much impressed by his dream, and the moonshine, and the effect of his prayers, and the solemn still ness of the night, that he went and awoke his father out of his sleep and said to him, "Father,
 SEE HOW GOOD AM.
 1 arise in the night to pray while my brothers are sleeping. Am ] not much better than they?'
 And the good man looking on his child said, sadly, My son, thou too hadst better been sleeping than awake to ac cu>e thy brethren.'
 1 looked through the window, at the morning star, and saw two morning stars. I moved my head 10 one side and looked again and l saw three morning stars through tine ~nti,e window pane. Then went to tie window and assured myself that there wa> 'eaiiy i'nL nft. morning star. i'i:e g!ts> through " hicl: 1 had booked Wa blurred a1d imi,rrfpct, l Was riding in street. ear amt a> glanced through the panel of glass be- side ne 1 saw telegraph p"ies anl wires | in the sky, high above the blocks of the | city. It was of course simple. optical | illusion. I had looked through the bev- eled edge of the thick plate of glass, and | the things I saw were not what they seemed.
 l So it is that we are in danger of seeing things through false or imperfect medi- ums. To a great extent we see in the world that for which we are looking. OUR VISION MAY BE BLURRED
 by prejudices, or hatred, or morbid con- science, or mental deficiencies, or lack of correct knowledge, or one-sided views, or selfish motives, or an unbalanced in- | tellect, or inordinate affections, or false religion. We need continually to be sized up ard rectifed by the only true standard of the perfect man, Christ Jesus.
 The man who goes cheerfully and con- tentedly to his daily task, and feels that his labor is honorable and useful, wheth- CT it be with hand or brain, doing faith fully and we'll that which he has to do. putting his heart and conscience into his skill that man is most truly Gods own nobleman. Such workmen are surely though slow ly redeeming the world from the curse of toll and woe.
 The real appreciation of the dignity and divine beneficence of labor is one of the last attainments which men attain unto in the common every day school of this toilsome life.
 THE LORD OF LIFE
 was poor carpenter and worked at hi: trade year after year in the most humble circumstances of common people. Very few and very simple were the demand. for skilled labor in his day. But who can doubt that every task was done tt the glory of God, the Father-His Path CT and our Father?
 Who can doubt that His love to mal would give him joy in everything usefu that He could do for any other? M, 1, Father worketh hitherto, and I work,
 He said. What the working men of tn world need most of all is the divine sens of the blessedness of faithful contente n labor.
 In proportion as any one is perfectl | healthy he is naturally unconscious C his body or of any of his bodily func :. ions. The sick man very soon become : morbid and self-conscious. The man wit
 a torpid liver or dyspeptic stomach
 pretty apt to be thinking about it an ! talking about it, all the time and ever,
 where; and is very likely to imagine ths 1T all the rest of the world are likewise a h fiicted with liver and stomachs.
 IT IS A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE
 to be all the while conscious of any pa
 ticular bodily function, and is especial , disgusting to other people. k, And what is true of the body Is equa l. ly true of the soul. A man does not an ,f more need to be all the time conscious d bis religion than he does of his healtl y It Is a bad thing to be self-conscious an W way.
 A healthy soul will take care of itse
 very much as healthy body will. Fal
 the necessary care of ir and let it aiol .. whether body or soul.
 ,.- A morbid conscience is very much lii :, torpid liver or Il dyspepiic stomach al N the more you mcddle with it the wor
 it grows People may overdo their pra
 ing as they do their eating; and becor ve spiritually dyspeptic and piously mo IT bid, and when they do they had bett ns let up on religion and go afishing .-[ NuY-