The Progress., 1898-01-29
TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses Up
on the Worlds Pitfalls.
Upon Every Hand They Abound to Allure
Mankind from tho Straight Path
Every Ono OF Thorn
: HAS, Its Sting.

The following sermon was prepares
Inv Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage IN lieu OF
his regular Sunday delivery. ~ 10
based on the text:
did but taste o little honey with the emo Oh
the rod that was in my hand and TO- must
die-L Samuel. XIV, ~
The honey bee is most ingenious
architect, Christopher Wren among
insects; geometer drawing hexagohs
and pentagons, a freeb rooo'ns
fields of pollen and aroma, wondrous
creature of God whose biography,
written by Huber and Swammerdam.
4, Nh enchantment for and lover OF
nature. Virgil celebrated the bee In
lis fabet of Aristaeus; and Moses, ana
Samuel, and David, and Solomon, ana
jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and St. John
nsed the delicacies Of bee manufacture
as u Bible sy mbol. A miracle OF Tor
nation Is the bee; five eyes, two
tongues, the outer having sheath OF
protec ton, hairs on oil sides OF Its tiny
body to brush up the particles OF How
ers, its fig hit so straight that all the
world knows of the bee line. The
honeycomb is q palace such as no ono
but God could plan, and tho honey boo
construct; its cells. sometimes store
house, and sometimes . cemetery.
Thcse winged toilers first make eight
strips of wax, and by their antennae,
(which are to them hammer, and chisel,
and square, and plumb-line, fashion
them for use. Two aud two these
workers shape the wall. If an acci-
dent happens, they put up buttresses
OF extra beams to remedy the damage.
When about the year 177e. an insect
before unknown. In the night time at
tackled tho bee hives all over Europe.
and the men who owned them were In
,vuin trying to plan something to keep
out the invader that was the terror OF
the bee hives Of the continent, 1t was
found that everywhere the bees had
arranged for thoir own protection, and
built before their honey-combs an es-
ipccial wall of wax with portfolios
Through which tho bees might go to
and fro, but not large enough to admit
the winged combatant, called the
Sphinx Atropos.
y, Do you know that the swarminR OF
the bees is divinely directed? The
mother bee starts for new home, and
because 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
,lenve their heated apartments and fol-
low the mother tee and alight on the
branch Of q tree, and cling to each
other and hold on until . committee OF
two or three bees have explored the
region and found tho hollow of q tree
or rock not far of from stream OF
wuter, and they here set up new col
ony, and ply their aromatic industries,
and give themselves to the manufac-
ture OF the saccharine edible. But
who can tell the chemistry of that
mixture of sweetness, part of it the
very life Of the boo, and part of 1t the
life of the feldsp
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging in the woods of Bethaveu
during 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 eat nything until thu
work was done. If they disobeyet
they were accursed. Coming through
the woods they found place wher'
the bees had been bnsy-a great honey