Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-01-28
FORBIDDEN SWEETS.
Or. TALMAcE EXPOSES TRAPS Sc:
FOR UNWARY FEET.
Which Attract and Then De-
stroy-Corrupt Books, Alcoholic stimu-
lants and Gambling Inveighed Against.
Honey From the Eternal Rock.

copyright, 1893, by American Press Asso-
ciatiOn.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Dr Talmage
here starts with an oriental scene, from
which be draws practical lessons as to
the allurements which entrap the un-
wary, and the discourse will put many
on their guard. The text is | Samuel
xiv, 43, II did but taste little honey
with the end of the rod that was in my
hand, and, 10, must die. q"
The honeybee is a most ingenious ar
chitect, Christopher Wren among in
sects; geometer drawing hexagons and
pentagons, a freebooter robbing the
fields of pollen and aroma, wondrous
creature Of God, whose biography, writ
ten by Huber and Swammerdam, is an
enchantment for any lover Of nature.
Virgil celebrated the bee in his fable Of
Aristaus, and Moses and Samuel and
David and Solomon and jeremiah and
Ezekiel and st. John used the delicacies
of bee manufacture as Bible symbol
a miracle of formation is the bee. Five
eyes, two tongues, the outer having a
sheath Of protection, hairs on all sides
of its tiny body to brush up the parti-
cles Of flowers, its fight SO straight that
all the world knows of the bee line. The
honeycomb is a palace such as 10 one
but God could plan and the honeybee
construct, its cells sometimes dormi-
tory and sometimes a storehouse and
sometimes a cemetery. These winged
toilers first make eight strips Of wax,
and BY their antenn9, which are to
them hammer and chisel and square
and plumb line, fashion them for use.
Two and two these workers shape the
wall. II an accident happens, they put
up buttresses Of extra beams to remedy
the damage.
When about the year 1875 an insect
before unknown in the nighttime at
tackled the beehiyes all over Europe,
and the men who owned them were in
vain trying to plan something to keep
out the invader that was the terror OF
tho beehiyes Of the continent, it was
found that everywhere the bees had ar
ranged for their own protection and
built before their honeycombs an espo-
cial wall Of wax with portfolios through
which the bees might go to and fro, but
not large enough to admit the winged
combatant called the Sphinx atropos.
Divine Direction.
Do you know that the swarming OF
the bees is divinely directed? The moth
er bee starts for new home, and be-
cause Of this the other bees Of the hive
get into an excitement which raises the
heat Of the hive some four degrees, and
they must die unless they leave their
heated apartments, and they follow the
mother bee and alight on the branch OF
a tree and cling to each other and hold
on until a committee Of two or three
bees have explored the region and found
the hollow Of tree or rock not far on
from q stream Of water, and they here
set up new colony and ply their arc
matte industries and give themselves
to the manufacture Of the saccharint
edible. But who can tell the chemistry
OF that mixture Of sweetness, part OF
it tho very life of the bee and part OF II
the life of the fields?
Plenty Of this luscious product wal
hf aing in the woods Of Betbayen dur
irx the time Of Saul and Jonathan
Their army was in pursuit Of an enemy
that by Gods command must be eXter
minated. The soldiery were positively
forbidden to stop to eat anything unit
the work was done If they disobeyed
they were accursed. Coming through
the woods, they found place where
the bees had been busy-a great honey
manufactory-ho gathered in th'
hollow of the trees until it had over
flowed upon the ground in great pro1u
sion of sweetness. All the army obeyeC
orders and touched it not save iona
than. and he, not knowing the mllltar.
order about abstinence, dipped the enc
~ a stick be had in his hand into th'
candied liquid, and as yellow and tempt
ing it glowed on the end OF the STICK
he mt il 10 his mouth and ate the non
ey. Judgment fell upon him, and bu
for special intervention he would hav
! been slain. In my text Jonathan an
uounces his awful mistake, 81 did ou
taste little honey with the end OF tn
rod that was in my hand, and, TO-
must die" Alas, what multitudes o
( people in all ages have been damage
by forbidden honey, by which l mea
temptation, delicious and attractive
but damaging and destructiyel
Evils Of Bad Literature.
! Corrupt literature, fascinating, bu
deathful, comes in this category. Wher
4 one good, honest, healthful book Is rea
b now there are hundred made up OF rh'
;. torical trash consumed with avidlty
B.. When the boys on the cars come throug
a with a pile Of publications, look over ID
titles and notice that nine out OF ten
the books are injurious. All the wa
u from here to Chicago or New Orlear
y notice that Objectionable books dom
i nate. Taste for pure literature Is po
sOned by THIS SCUM VI 'nV
house. Every book in which SIN u
+ umphs over virtue or in which glamor
;, is thrown over dissipation or whie
d leaves you at it's last line with less n
] spect for the marriage institution an
less adherence for the paramour is
depression of your own moral characte
!. The book bindery may be attractive an
the plot dramatic and startling and II
style Of writing sweet as the honey th'
, Jonathan took up with his rod but yol
best interests forbid it, your moral sal
" ty forbids it, your God forbids It, al
o one taste OF it may lead to such bad r
suits that you may have to say at u
close Of the experiment, or at the close
misimproved lifetime, Il did but tas
little honey with the rod that was
nv hand. and, 10, must die. y
4, Corrupt literature is doing more =
- day for the disruption Of domestic II
81 than any other cause. Elopements, ~
~ ital intrigues, sly correspondence nc
- tious names given at postoiilce WI
- - -t..do.f;,,o ,naatinOs in marks al