Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-29
FORBIDDEN SWEETS.
DR.. TALMAeE EXPOSES TRAPS SET
FOR UNWARY FEET.

Temptations Which Attract and Then De-
stroy-Corrupt Books, Alcoholic Stimu-
limits and Gambling Inveighed Against
Honey From the Eternal Rock.
copyright, 1898. by American Press Asso-
citation.
WASHINGTON, JAN: 23.-Dr Talmage
here starts with an oriental scene, from
which he draws practical lessons rs to
the allurements which entrap tho un.
wary, and the discourse will put many
on their guard. The text is l Samuel
xiv, 40, 1T did but taste little honey
with the end Of the rod that was i'll my
hand. and, 10, must die -
The honeybee is most ingenious mr.
chitect, Christopher Wren among in
scots; geometer drawing hexagons and
pentagons, freebooter robbing the
fields of pollen and aroma, wondrous
creature Of God, whose biography, writ
ton by Huber and Swammerdam, is an
enchantment for any lover of nature.
Virgil celebrated the bee in his fable OF
Aristmus, and Moses and Samuel and
David and Solomon and Jeremiah and
Ezekiel and St. John used the dclicacies
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 Oh 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 palace such as no one
but God could plan and the honeyboe
construct, its cells sometimes a dormi-
tory and sometimes storehouse and
sometimes O cemetery. These winged
toilers first make eight strips of wax,
and by their antenne, which are to
them hammer and chisel and square
and plumb line, fashion them for use.
Two and two these workers shape the
wall. If an accident happens, they put
up buttresses Of extra beams to remedy
the damage.
When about the year 177G an insect
before unknown in the nighttime at
tackled the beehives NIL 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 beehives of tho continent it was
found that everywhere the bees had ar
ranged for their own protection and
built before their honeycombs an cspc-
cial wall of wax with portfolios through
which the bees might go to and fro, bat
not large enough to admit the winged
combatant called the Sphinx atropos
Divine Direction.
Do you know that the swarlning of
the bees is divinely directed: The moth
er bee starts for o new home, and be-
cause of this the other lees of the hive
get into an excitement which raises the
heat of the hive somo four degrees and
they must die unless they leave their
heated apartments, and they follow the
mother bee and alight on the branch of
tree and cling to each other and hold
on until committee of two or three
bees have explored the region and found
the hollow of a tree or rock not far off
from q stream of water. and they here
set up new colony and ply their aro-
matte industries and give themselves
to the manufacture of the saccharine
edible. But who can tell the chemistry
of that mixture of sweetness, part Of
it the very life of the bee and part OF 1t
the life of the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product vas
banging in the woods of Bethaven dur
ing 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 until
the work was done. If they disobeyed,
they were accursed. Coming through
the woods, they found a place where
the bees had been busy-a great honey
neutrality-suspicious. gathered i'll the
hollow of the trees until it had over
flowed upon the ground i'll great profu-
sion of sweetness. All the army obeyed
orders and touched it not save Jona-
than, and he, not knowing the military
order about abstinence, dipped the end
of stick he had in his hand into the
candied liquid, and as yellow aid tempt
ing it glowed on the end of tic stick !;
he put it to his mouth and ate the hon-
ey. Judgment fell upon him, and but
for special intervention he would have
been slain. In my text Jonathan an
nounces his awful mistake, 81 did but
taste little honey with the end of the
rod that was in my hand and, 10, l
must die" Alas, what multitudes of
people in all ages have been damaged
by forbidden honey, by which L mean
temptation, delicious and attractive,
but damaging and destructive!
Evils of Bad Literature.
Corrupt literature, fascinating, but
beautiful, comes in this category. Where
one good, honest, healthful book is read
now there are hundred made up of rbe-
torical trash consumed with avidity.
When the boys on tie cars come through
with pile of publications, look over the
titles and notice that nine out of ten OF
the books are injurious. All the way
from here to Chicago or New Orleans
notice that Objectionable books doml-
nate. Taste for pure literature is Pol
soned by this scum of the publishing
house. Every book in which sin TIL
umphs over virtue or in which glamour
is thrown over dissipation or which
leaves you ut IFS last line with less re-
spect for the marriage institution and
less adherence for the paramour IL
depression of your own moral character:
The book bindery 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 it, your moral safe
ty forbids it, your God forbids it, and
one taste of it may lead to such bad re-
suits that you may have 10 say at the
close of the experiment, or attbo close OF
Il hui IN ct