The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-01-28
FORBIDDEN SWEETS.
DR. TALMAGE EXPOSES TRAPS SET
FOR UNWARY FEET.

stroy-Corrupt Books, Alcoholic stinlu-
1ants and Gambling Inveighed Against.
Honey From the Eternal Rock.
copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Dr. Talmage
here starts with an oriental scene, from
which he 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. "
The honeybee is most ingenious ar
chitect, Christopher Wren among in
sects; geometer drawing hexagons and
pentagons, 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
AIlSlCtub, bAOoCo ohO eO"AA'NNN "A'N
David and Solomon and jeremiah and
Ezekiel and st. John used the delicacies
of bee manufacture as a 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 it's tiny body to brush up the partl-
cles of flowers its flight so straight that
lyn4ruc Of tho hoo limo Tho
honeycomb is a palace such as no one
but God could plan and the honeybee
construct, it's cells sometimes dorml-
tory and sometimes a storehOuse and
sometimes a cemetery. These winged
toilers first make eight strips Of wax,
and by their antenn8, 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
ND buttresses of extra beams to remedy
the damage
When about the year 1776 an insect
before unknown in the nighttime at
tackled the beehives 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
the beehives of the continent, it was
found that everywhere the bees had ar
ranged for their own protection and
built before their honeycombs an espe-
cial wall of wax with portfolios through
which the bees might go to and fro, but
not large enough to admit the winged
eombatant called the Sphinx atropos.
Divine Direction.
Do you know that the swarming OF
the bees is divinely directed? The moth
err 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 a tree or rock not far off
from 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 it
the life of the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product vas
hanging 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. II they disobeyed,
they were accursed. Coming through
the woods, they found place where
the bees had been busy-a great honey
neutrality-suspicious. gathered in the
hollow of the trees until it had over
flowed upon the ground in 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 a stick be had in his hand into the
candied liquid, and as yellow and tempt
ing it glowed on the end of the 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 i'll my hand, and, 10, l
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 destructivel
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 rhe
torical trash consumed with avidity.
When the boys on the 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 domi-
nate. Taste for pure literature is poi
suned by this scum of the publishing
house. Every book in which sin tri
umphs over virtue or in which glamour
IL.