The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-27
Spiritual Food
THE BIBLE-A HONEY
COMB OF LIFE

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begun in this column some weeks
ago by one or our contributing
readers, w. j. R., continues today
with a detailed description OF
Milk and Honey.
w. J. r. takes us from the first
Old Testament mention of lahd
flowing with milk and honey
unto the last, centering his dis
cussion around the spiritual mean
ing of honey. He likens the III
tricate honeycomb, ''swarming
with life, to the wonderful cor
struction" of the Bible. TIE
whole is very enlightening and
should furnish food for thought"
for all of US.
This latest w. ]. r. contribution
viii be published in two parts,
the first of which follows:
God has recorded in His Word
seventeen times that the land
which He had promised to His
people was a land flowing with
milk and honey. The first &C.
curence of the expression is found
in Exodus 3:8 where God spoke 10
Moses out of the midst of the
burning bush, and commissioned
him as the leader who would de
liver His people from the bondage
Of Egypt and guide them to the
promised land.
The last time it is mentioned is
in Ezekiel 20:6 and God is re-
Yninding Ezekiel that .deliverance
had been accomplished for His
people, In the day that I afted
up mine hand unto them to bring
them forth Of the land of Egypt
into a land that l had espied for
them, flowing with milk and
honey, which is the glory of ala
lands E
The fact that milk was to be
found in the land implies the
presence of cows, and the pres
ence of cows suggests the thought
that there would be fertile pas
ture where the cattle would Craze.
II would not be a desert or desc
late country.
IF honey were to be found in
abundance there it was logical to
assume that there were bees, and
bees would intimate that they
would find many flowers and
fruit trees there. In fact we are
told that the spies who were sent
10 investigate the country brought
back samples of the fruit found
there, And they. came into the
brook of Eschol, and cut down
from thence branch with one
cluster of grapes, and they bare
il between two upon a Staff and
they brought of the pomegranates
and of the figs (NumbeS> 1929
They reported to Moses, and said,
It is a good land which the LORD
our God doth give u.s. r.
Having formerly taken up the
spiritual application of milk, let
us consider more in detail the
meaning of honey and its sig.
nificance to the Christian. go
The bee is the master archi-
tect of the animal kingdom. Mau-
rice Maeterlinch, the renowned
Belgian poet, whose The Life of
the Bee is one of the most in
teresting books in literature, thus
describes the inside as it would
look 10 us if we could see il
. through the eyes of the bee:
" From the height of dome
more colossal than that of Saint
Peters at Rome, waxen walls de-
seend to the ground, gigantic and
j manifold, vertical and parallel
& geometric constructions, to which,
for relative precision, audacity
and vastness, no human structure
IS comparable. Each of these
walls contains thousands of cells
that are stored with provisions to
feed the whole people for several
weeks. In the center there stands
the royal domain of the brood
cells wherein the eggs repoSe, 15,-
600 or 10000 chambers ,tenanaeCh
by larvae, 10000 dwellings in.
habited by white nyfnphs to-
whom thousands of nurses minis
ter. And. finally, in the holy of
noiies of these parts, are the
three. four, six, or twelve sealed
palaces, vast in size compared
with the others, where the ado
lescent princesseS lie, who, await
their hour, wrapped m askind of
shroud. all of them motionless
and pale, and fed in the dark
mess
Keeping in mind a bird's-eye
view Of the intricacy of the pat
tern of the honeycomb, swarming
with life, can we not be justified
n hkening this structure to the
aSonderful construction of the
Worlds Masterpiece of Literature
THE BIBLE? Viewed as a
whole it is perfect in its entirety;
Yet each Book, each Chapter, each
erse, each Word is a complete
unit, and as such is important to
he symmetry of the whole. It is
Living Book. It's pages, FROM
ne first TO the last, pulsate with
Fords of life-ETERNAL LIFE.
III Ito Be Continued)