The Yale expositor., 1898-01-28


of God whose BIZ
ography, written by Huber and Swami
meridian, is an enchantment for any
lover of nature. Virgil celebrated the
bee in his fable of Aristaeus; and
Moses, and Samuel, and David, and
Solomon, and jeremiah, and Ezekiel,
and st. John used the delicacies OF
pee manufacture as a Bible symbol.
A miracle of formation is the bee: fve
eyes, two tongues, the outer having
sheath OF protection, hairs on all sides
of its tiny body to brush up the par
tcles of flowers, its flight so straight
that all the world knows of the bee
line. The honey-comb is q palace
such as no one but God could plan
and the honey-bee construct; its cells,
sometimes dormitory and sometimes
storehouse, and sometimes a ceme-
terry. These winged toilers first make
eight strips of wax, and by their an
tennae. which are to them hammer,
and chisel, and square, and plumb
line, fashion them for use. Two ana
two these workers shape the wall. IL
an accident happens, they put up but
tresses OF extra beams to remedy the
damage. When about the year 1776
an insect before unknown, in the
night time attacked the bee-hives all
over Europe, and the men who owned
them were in vain trying to plan some
thing 10 keep out the invader that was
the terror of the bee-hives of the con-
tinent, 1t was found that everywhere
the bees arranged for their own
protection, and built before the honey
combs an especial wall of wax with
portfolios through which the bees
might go to and fro, but not large
enough to admit the winged combat
ant, called the Sphinx Atropos.
Corrupt literature. fascinating but
beautiful, comes In this category.
Where one good, honest. healthful
made up of rhetorical trash consumed
with avidity. When the boys on the
cars come through with pile of pub
LEGATIONS, look over the titles and no.
tice that nine out of ten of the books
are injurious All the way from here to
Chicago or New Orleans notice that
Objectionable books dominate. Taste
for pure literature is poisoned by this
scum of the publishing house. Every
book in which sin triumphs over vir-
tue, or in which a glamour is thrown
over dissipation, or which leaves you
at its last line with less respect for
the marriage institution and less
adherence for the paramount, is de-
preston of your own moral character.
The bookbindery may be attractive.
and the plot dramatic and startling,
and the style of writing sweet as the
honey that Jonathan took up with his
rod, but your best interests forbid 1t,
your moral safety forbids, It. your
God forbids 1t, and one taste Of 1t may
lead to such bad results that you may
have to say at the close of the expert
ment, or at the close of a misimproved
lifetime: 81 did but taste little honey
with the rod that was in my hand.
and, 10. must die"
One would suppose that men would
take warning from some of the omi-
nous names given TO the intoxicants,
and stand off from the devastating in
fuence. You have noticed, for in
stance that some of the restaurants
are called The Shades" typical of the
fact that it puts mans reputation in
the shade, and his morals in the shade,
and his prosperity in the shade. and
his wife and children in the shade,
and his immortal destiny in the shade.
Now, find on some OF the liquor signs
in all our cities the words "Old Crow"
nightly suggestive Of the carcass and
the filthy raven that swoops upon 1t.
"Old Crow Men and women without
numbers slain of rum. but unburied,
and this evil is pecking at their
glazed eyes, and pecking at their
bloated cheek, and pecking at their
destroyed manhood and womanhood,
thrusting beak and claw into the NOR
tai remains of what was once glorious
ly alive, but now morally dead. "Old
Crown But alas! how many take no
warning! They make me think of
Caesar on his way to assassination
fearing nothing; though his statue in
the hall crashed into fragments at his
feet, and a scroll containing the names
of the conspirators was thrust into his
hands. yet walking right on to meet
the dagger that was to take his life.
This infatuation Of strong drink Is so
might in many a man that. though
his fortunes are crashing, and
his health is crashing and his do
nestle interests are crashing, and we
hand him long scroll containing the
names of perils that await him. he
goes straight on to physical, and men,
tai, and moral assassination. In pro-
portion as any style of alcoholism is
pleasant to your taste and stimulating
to your nerves, and for time delight
ful TO all your physical and mental con-
stitution, is the peril awful. Remem-
Der Jonathan and the forbidden honey
In the woods at Beth-aven.
There is a complete fascination in
games of hazard or the risking OF
money on possibilities. It seems as
natural for them 10 bet as to eat. In
deed the hunger for food is often over
powered by the hunger for wagers. II
ia absurd for those of lie WIN hive