The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-17
REV. HOLP ON HONEY.
The United States is Today The
Land Flowing With Milk
And Honey.
The Different Kinds of HOney---
Shall 1t Give Us Life or
Death?

colored nurses call their babes, little
and big, "Honey." We are equally
aware that lovers call their sweet
hearts, Honey" But it is not of
these that am to speak today. 1t
is of the article itself, fresh from the
busy bees. Professor Aga5slz once
gave a very interesting lecture on
the shad of the Connecticut river.
The contemporaries of Socrates gave
learned disuuisitions on salt and
bees.
1t seemed to me we might profit
ably speak on honey, a much more
promising subject. Samson found a
hive of bees storing honey in the
carcass of the lion he had slain a
year before, and based his famous
riddle, ''Out Of the eater came forth
meat. and out of the strong came
forth sweetness" on this circum-
stance. Samson extracted sweetness
from st1 ength. Let us endeavor this
morning to extract strength from
sweetness. The ancients claimed
that Bacchus vas the discoverer of
honey and Pau the God who pro-
tected it. Hybla, Maximum, and
Hymettus were famous for their
honey. Palestine was always spoken
of as "a land flowing with milk and
honey This was more literally true
than we are wont to think. Almost
every family in the land had hive
,ef tame bees. The wild bees stored
their treasure on the side of trees
and in the crevices of the rocks
everywhere, so that honey really
flowed on all hands. The United
States is modern Palestine, for it
flows with milk and honey.
There are about 100000 hives in
our country, which is more than is to
be found in any other country on
Gods footstool. 1t is most fitting
therefore that we, the honey country
of earth, should know something,
indeed everything, we can know of
Honey. There is a common saying,
which declares that
HONEY TELLS WHERE THE BEES HAVE
BEEN.
We have clover, buckwheat, and
wild honey. Sometimes the bees
drain the clover heads of their sweet
ness, sometimes the buckwheat
flowers, and sometimes the wild
growing flowers of the field or forest.
A honey expert can tell by the honey
Just what field the bees have visited.
A mans creed, churchs creed, tells
an expert theologian just what field
of the Bible has been most visited by
the party or parties. II a man feasts
mostly on Genesis, or the Psalms, or
Ecclesiastes, or Daniel, or Revelation,
or the Gospel of John, his creed,
written or unWritten, will reveal at
once which he is in the habit of
visiting most frequently. Goethe's
'Werther" was read by many who at
once proceeded to commit suicide.
They left postuhmous notes for the
author telling him "Werther" nerved
them to the fatal deed, SO much sc
that men began to say whenever they
read of a suicide in Germany
''Werther's convert"
"The honey tells where the bees
have been," and mans words and
feelings tell where he has been. Let
us ever 60 where is the man that sees
the silver, yes, the golden lining tt
every cloud. There is another
sentence which says,
MoLAssEs IS HONEY TO THE CoNrEN
TED MAN.
Paul says, II have learned, ir
whatever state l am, therein to bt
scontented." If Paul was content
we may be. Contentment is more
than gold, for it is the philosopher.
stone, which turns everything into
gold. Contentment is the souls
spectacleS which colors with COLDER
color all that is seen through them
Let us cultivate this virture, ani
even the bitter things of life will
become pleasant, yes, sweet to oul
taste Let US learn how much there
is of
PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE IN 4
POUND OF HONEY.
1t is estimated that bees, in order
to collect one pound Of honey, must
visit the extract the hector con
tanned in $4,000 heads of clover OF
the average size. This task
necessitates 3,750,000 trips to anC
from the hive. In order tn cnltivatf
any Christian virtue, to anything
like perfection, we must have al
equal amount OF patience, and per
severance. Thomas q Kempis
writing on the duty of self-renun
citation, exclaims, 80, Lord, this is
not the work OF one day, nor rhil
tdren's sport" This must be said OF
n,ti in,