The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses Up
ON tho Worlds Pitfalls.
Npos Every Hand They Abound to Allure
Mankind from the straight Path
Every Ono of Them
Has Its Sting.

che rod that was In my hand, and 10, mus
&tie--I Samuel, XIV, ~
The honey bee is u most ingeniou,
architect, "a Christopher Wren among
insects; geOmeter drawing hexagoni
and pentagoDs, freebooter robbinl
fields of pollen and aroma, wondrou'
creature OF God whose biography
written by Huber and Swammerdam
il All enchantment for and lover o.
nature. Virgil celebrated the bee il
his label of Aristaeus; and Moses, ant
Samuel, and David, and Solomon, ant
jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and ST. John
used the delicacies of bee manufacture.
a. a Bible symbol. A miracle of for
nation is the bee; five eyes two
tongues, the outer having IA sheath oi
protection, h airs on all sides of its tiny
body to brush up the particles of 1ow'
ers, its light SO straight that all the
world knows OF the bee line. The
.honeycomb is Il palace such AS no one
but God could plan, and the honey bee
construct; It's cells, sometimes a~store
house, and sometimes cemetery.
These winged toilcrs tirsc~|nalie eight
strips of wax, and by their antennae,
which are to them hammer, and chisel,
aud square, and plumb-line, fashion
them for use. Two and two these
workers shape the wall. IL an acct
dent happens, they put up buttresses
of extra beams to remedy the damage.
When about the year l77G. an insect
before unknown, in the night time at
hacked the bee hives all over Europe,
aud the men who owned them were in
win trying to plan something To keep
out the invader that was the terror of
Ghe bee hives Of the continent, it was
found that everywhere the bees had
arranged for their own protection, and
built before their honey combs an es-
peciai 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.
DO you know that the swarning 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
leave their heated apartments and fol-
low the mother bee and alight on the
branch Of Il 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 "a tree
or rock not far off from stream of
water, and they here set up new col
ony, aud ply their aromatic industries,
aud give themselves TO the manufac-
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who can tell the chemistry of that
mix lure of sweetness, part Of it the
very life of the bee, and part of it the
life Of the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging in the woods of Bethaven
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 anything until the
work was done. Ii they disobeyed
they were accursed. Coming through
the woods they found place where
the bees had been bnsy-a great honey
rnxaufactory. Honey gathered in the
hollow of the trees until it overlooked
upon the ground in great profusion of
sweetness. All the army obeyed orders
and touched it not save Jonathan, and
tc, not knowing the military order
about abstinence, dipped the end of
stick he had in his hand into the can
died liquid, and, as yellow and tempt
ing it glowed on the end of the stick,
he put it to his mouth aud ate the
honey. Judgment fell upon him, and
but for special Intervention he would
have been slain. In my text Jonathan
announces his awful mistake: II did
but taste Il little honey with the end of
the rod that was in my hand, and. 10,
must die" Alas, what multitudes of
people in all ages have been damaged
by forbidden honey, by which | mean
temptation, delicious and attractive,
but damaging and destructive!
Corrupt literature, fascinating but
beautiful, comes in this category.
Where one good, honest, healthful
book is read now, there is n hundred
made up of rhetorical trash consumed
with avidity. When the boys on the
cars come through with a pile Of publ
cations, 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 OBJ
iectionable books dominate. Taste for
pure literature is poisoned by this scum
OF the publishing house. Every book
5u which sin triumphs over virtue, or
in which a glamour is thrown over dis
sipaLion, or which leaves you at Is
Inst line with less respect for the
marriage institution and less abhor-
renee for the paramount, is a depression
.of your own moral character. The
hookbindery 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 safety forbids 1t, your God
Eorbids it, and one taste OF it may lead
Co such results that you may have to
say at the close Of the experiment, or
s.t the close of inisimproved life: IL
did but taste a little honey with the
rod that was in my hand, and lol l
must die"
Corrupt literature is doing more to-
Gay for the disruption OF domestic life
chan any other cause. Elopments,
suaital intrigues, sly correspondence,
.ficticious names given at post office
~iadows, cladestine meetings in parks,
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