PR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Forbidden Honey.
“1 did but taste a little honey with the end of
fe rod that was in my hand, and, lo 1 must
Lie." 1. Sam. 14 : 43.
THE honey bee isa most ingenious
architect, a Christopher Wren among
insects, a geometer, drawing hexagons
and pentagons, a freebooter, robbing
she fields of pollen and aroma, a won-
frous creature of God, whose biography
written by Huber and Swammerdam,
8 an enchantment for any lover of na-
sure, Virgil celebrated the bee in his
fable of Aristaeus, and Moses, and
Samuel, and David, and Solomon, and
Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and St. John,
used the delicacies of the bee-manu-
facture as
A BIBLE SYMBOL
A miracle of formation is the bee: five
ayes, two tongues,
sheath of protecting hairs on all sides
of its tiny body to brush up the parti-
cles of flowers, its flight so straight that
all the world knows of the bee line,
Tle honey-comb is a palace such as no
one but God could plan, and the honey
bee construct; cells
dormitory, and sometimes a storehouse,
and sometimes a cemetery. These
winged
wax, and by their antennae, which are
then hammer, and chisel, and
square, and plumb-line, fashion them
Two and two, these workers
e the wall, If an accident happen
put b or extra beams
damage. When about
an insect, before
n the night time attacked the
hives all over Europe, and the men
owned them were in vain trying
something to Keep out the
that was the ferror of the
of the continent, it was
that everywhere the bees had arranged
for their own protection, and built be-
fore their honeycombs an especial wall
)f wax with porthole through which
i go to and fro, but not
1 to admit the winged com-
led the Sphinx Atropos,
7 t the swarming of
1s
10
for use,
p buttresses
uf
the
ill=
bee
fives
A
ht
1 $
Litas
TED {
ther bee starts for a new hom
1 this other bees
an excitement which
he heat of the hive
legrees, and they must die unless they
leave their heated apartments, and tl
follow the mother bee and alight or
branch of a tree, and cling
r and hold on until a committee of
two or three have explored the re
ind found the hollow of a tree or
not far off from a stream of water, and
they here set up a new colony, and ply
; industries, and give
the manufacture of tl
] but who can tell
that mixture of sweet-
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Saul and
in pursuit of an enemy
command must be exter-
were positively
han, and, he
ilitary order about absti
ed the end }
hand into the candied liquid a
ow, and brown, and tempting,
wed on the end of the stick, he
t to his mouth and ate the honey.
rment fell n him, and but
intervention, he would
sin. In my text Jonathan an-
es his awful mistake: *‘Idid but
s little honey with the end of the
at was in my hand, and lo, I must
of a stick he |
it gi
nut
Jud
ry
eC ia
for
have
upo
en 8
fore
by which I mean tempta-
tive, but dam-
MiYE, U
il ages have been damaged by
bidden honey,
fon, delicious and attrac
airing and destructive!
CORRUPT LITERATURE,
rature, fascinating, bat deathfu!,
in this category, Where
honest, healthful book read
there are one hundred made up
hetorical trash consumed with avid-
When the boy on the cars comes
h with a pile of publications,
iook over the titles and notice that nine
sut of ten of the books are depleting
All the way from New
or New Orleans no-
st objectionable Looks dominate,
I'aste for pure literature is poisoned by
his scum of the publishing house. Every
in which sin triumphs over virtue,
yw in which a glamour is thrown over
dissipation, or which leaves you at its
ast line with less respect for the mar-
iage institution and less abhorrence
for the paramour, is a depression of
your own moral character. The book-
hinding may be attractive, and the plot
Iramatic and startling, and the style of
writing sweet as the honey that
than dipped up with his rod, but your
best interests forbid it, your moral
safety forbids it, your God fordids it,
and one taste of it may lead to
such bad results that you may have
to say at the close of the experi-
ment, or at the close of a misim-
proved life-time: ‘I did bul taste a
little honey with the rod that was in
my hand, and lo, 1 must die,”
Corrupt literature is doing more to-
day for the disruption of domestic life
than any other cause. Elopements,
marital intrigues, sly correspondence,
fictitious names given at post-oftice win-
dows, clandestine meetings in parks
and at ferry gates and in hotel parlors,
and conjugal perjuries are among
THE DAMNABLE RESULTS,
When a woman, young or old, gets her
fiead thoroughly stuffed with the mod-
ern novel, she is in appalling peril, But
some one will say: **The heroes are so
adroitly knavish, and the persons so be-
witchingly untrue, and the turn of the
wtory so exquisite, and all the charac
dors so enrapturing, 1 cannot quit
one
is
Hrough
and injurious,
York to Chicago
$)
ICH Like
wok
them.” My brother, my sister, you
an find styles of literature just as
charming that will elevate and purify,
and Christianize while
The devil does not own all
There is a wealth of good
they please,
leaves ne excuse for the
body, mind and soul. Go to some in-
telligent men or women, and ask for a
list of books that will be strengthening
to you mental and mortal condition.
Life is so short, and your time for im-
grovement so abbreviated, that you
cannot afford to fill up with husks, and
cinders, and debris,
In the intervals of business that young
man is reading that which will prepare
him to be a merchant prince, and that
young woman is filling her mind with
an intelligence that will yet either make
her the chief attraction of a good man’s
character that will qualify her to build
her own home, and maintain it in a hap-
piness that requires no augmentation
from any of our rougher sex. “That
young man or young woman can by the
right litetary and moral improvement of
the spare ten minutes, here or there in
nothing,
See all
Hteratul
pick 1
in 1
YOu wi
the loungers who read
that which bedwarts,
the forests of good American
dripping with honey. Why
l honey-combs that hi
which
©
bp
Lhe AV
the fiery bees, will th
an eternal
sting
1 ta 11
poison vou taste it:
while
ONE DOOK AY DECIDE EY
ked up a Ix
Ruskin,”
Was nol
purchased all his
them, and whi
through in reading
own
Venice,” it is imposs
vit
Say ili
r that
for decrepit
that will last me while
All
hurch and th
DOTesSSesS
m which i
why
ricl ary t
A110 AU
able
» An an
wlit te
vou revect
vy $4
FEAsOll Lid
books :
put
f
HN Ol
form he
bullet each laced 80 much
added day
became less
wild entire'y
and there was no room
liquid, and by that time it was
inebriate would cured,
* any one ever was cured in that
way I know not ; but by long experiment
it 1s found that the only way is to stop
short off, and when a man does that he
needs God to help him, And
have been more than you can
count when God has so helped the man,
that he quit forever, and I could count
a score of them here to-day, some of
them pillars in the house of God,
One wonld suppose that men would
take warning from some of the
NAMES
given to the intoxicants, and stand off
from the devastating influence, You
i
:
Liao
ig ‘
* fat
DV GAY
* THIN
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he lirillat a +
He HALE WH
the glass,
be
ASes
OMINOUS
mve noticed for instance that some of
the restaurants are called “The Shades,
reputation in the shade, and his morals
in the shade, and his prosperity in the
shade, and his wife amndd children in the
and his immortal destiny in the
Now, I find on some of the
signs in all our cities the words
shade,
upon it. “Old Crow I” Men and
women without numbers slain of rum,
but unburied, this evil is pecking at
their glazed eyes and pecking at their
bloated cheek, and pecking at their de-
stroyed manhood and womanhood,
thrusting beak and claw into the mortal
remains of what was once gloriously
alive, but now morally dead. “Old
Crow |
But alag, how many take warning.
They make me think of Cmwsar on his
way to assassination, fearing nothing ;
though his statue in the hall crashed
into fragments at his feet, and a scroll
containing all the names of the conspir-
ators was thrust into his hands, yet
walking right on to meet the dagger
that was to take his life. This infatuation
of strong drink i8 so mighty in many a
man that though his fortunes are crash-
ing, and his health is crashing, and his
domestic interests are crashing, and we
hand him a long scroll containing the
names of perils that await him, hé goes
straight on to physical and mental and
moral assassination, In proportion as
any style of alcoholism is pleasant to your
taste, and stimulating to the nerves,
and for a time delightful to all your
physical and mental constitution, is the
peril awful. Remember Jonathan and
the forbidden honey in the woods of
Beth-aven,
Furthermore, the gamester’s indul-
gence must be put in the list of tempta-
tions, delicious but destructive, I have
crossed the ocean eight times, and al-
ways one of the best rooms, has from
morning till late at night, been given up
{to
GAMBLING PRACTICES,
{ I heard of many men who went on
{ board with enough money for European
| excursion, who landed without enough
{ money to get their baggage up to the
| hotel or railroad station. To many there
is a complete fascination in games of
| hazard or the risking of money on possi-
| bilities, It seems as natural for them to
bet to eat. Indeed the hunger for
food is often over-powered with the hun-
| ger for wagers, in the case of Lord
sandwich, a persistent gambler, who
as
as
nough the taking of food, in-
a preparation of food that
r ti
» without he
long ¢ 101
game ;
two
wi ween
{ for those of us who have
‘ascination
of
a multitude of ints
moral giants, 1 and wi
stronger than vou or I. Down un
went gl us Oliver Golds
(xibbon the h
of the wage:
the temptat
nen
fav
ox t
he statesman |
nators of
» a8 regularly at
as they were in
Oh, th
TAMMOus =
t+}
nd
YOu
ns
of a gamester’s and 1 am «
way to a gambler’s Honey a
at the last
1 catas rophs
be {
Street,
ton, or
depositing
tlirating
New York, or
Third Street, Phi
a small sun of
the risk of taking out a fortune,
men are doing an
ness in the stock market, and you are an
ignoramus if vou do not Know that it is
just as legitimate to deal in stocks as to
in coffee or sugar or flour. But
| nearly all the outsiders who go there on
| a little financial excursion lose all. The
| old spiders eat up the unsuspecting flies,
I had a friend who put his hand on his
| hip pocket and said to me in substance :
{ “‘1 have there the value of a hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.’ His home
I is today penniless, What was the mat-
ter? WallStreet, Of the vast majority
| who are victimized, your hear
| word. Ome great stock firm goes down,
and whole columns of newspapers
their fraud or their disaster, and
we are presented with their features and
their biography. Dut where one such
| famous firm sinks, five huodred un-
| known men sink with them. The great
i
i
| steamer down, and all the
State Street,
ladelphia, and
money, run
Many
honest and safe busi-
deal
i
not one
dis-
CUss
Oe
RIMES
ment, Gambling 18 gambling, whether
| in stocks or bread-stuffs, or dice or race.
track betting. Exhiliration at the start
and a raving brain and a shattered ner-
vous system and a sacrificed property,
and a destroved soul at the last,
Young man, buy no lottery tickets ;
purchase no prize packages; bet on no
baseball games or yacht racing,
HAVE NO FAITH IN LUCK;
answer no mysterious circulars propos-
ing great income for a small investment;
shoo away the buzzards that hover
around our hotels trying to entrap
strangers, Go out and make an honest
living. Have God on your side and be
a candidate for heaven, Remember all
the paths of sin are banked with flowers
at the start, and there are plenty of
helpful hands to fetch the gay charger
you mount. But further
plunges to the bit in a slough inextric-
able. The best honey is not like that
which Jonathan took on the end of the
rod and brought to his lip, but that
sit.
I was reading of a boy among
mountains of Switzerland ascending
A DANGEROUS PLACE
with hls father and the guides. The
boy stopped on the edge of the cliff and
said : “There is a flower I mean to
get.” “Come away from there,’ said
the father, **You will fall off.” **No,”
sald he, *‘I must get that beautiful
flower,” and the guides rushed toward
him to pull him back, when they heard
him say, “I almost have it,”’ as he fell
two thousand feet, Birds of prey were
seen a few days after cireling through
place where the corpse lay.
flowers off the edge of a precipice when
you may walk knee deep amid the full
| blooms of the very Paradise of God?
| When a man may sit at a king’s ban-
quet, why will he go down the steps and
contend for the and bones of a
hound’s kennel?
The poet Hesiod tells
and a nectar drinking
would make men live forever
sip of this honey from the Eten
1
Will give vou
gristle
of
an ambrosia
of
1
Lhe
immortal life
Castle Garden,
igrants co
'
Hs Lhe
‘i
there, and
but the guest
their course
would if it wer
«A425
astle Garden, the
HNIMIgTAans
i
£ Lvsd
essing
— RR ——_——
A Curious Epitaph.
Down in Houston County there is an
ancient village called old Wilner. In
its most prosperous days there was a
big school there, and a teacher came
from the North to take charge of the
academy. His name was Moore, He
ly. He had her buried in the old bury-
mg-ground of Wilner, and out of Lis
meagre funds he erected a marble tomb-
stone at the head of her grave, As il
was In the wild wood, as cemeteries
geperally were then, it was a favorite
Jaticn. Thus it
half-obliterated epitaph appears to-day,
| cut deep in the mossy stone: *‘Boys,
| Don't Shoot Birds Around Martha's
Grave.” The name, Anne Moore,
with date of birth and death, appear
above, It isa curious epitaph, and it
18 the only bit of history left concerning
the old teacher and his wife,
wo Cn
The Empress of China Reproved,
The Empress Regent of China has
just submitted to a reproof from one
| of the princes of the royal house in a
| way that shows her perfect knowledge
| of the curious people over whom she
| rules, The fifth prince, who appears to
| have earned a reputation for parsimony,
| besought the Empress to refrain from
i building a new palace, as extravagence
in empresses was unbecoming and par-
ticularly duspleasing to the former Em-
| peror, the husband of the Empress. On
| receiving this memorial the Empress
was said to be deeply affected, and at
once ordered the builling of the new
palace to be discontinued,
It is not what you give so much as
the way you give that counts,
Wwe have never yet been disappoln-
| ted when relying only on ourselves
INDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
BuxspAY, Nov. 6, 1887,
Confessing Christ,
LESSON TEXT.
(Matt, 101 12.42,
Memory verses, 37-39.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTER!
King in Zion.
GorLpEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
heaven and in the earth 1s thine; thine is
11.
Lesson Toric:
ty over Destiny.
Lesson (1 Confesving Men, ve 82, 53,
Outline <2. Bestowing Life, va, 84.99,
TEE TAS, Conferring Rewards, ve. 40 45
GOLDEN TEXT: Whosoever there-
The King's Author-
confess also
in heaven,
before my Father
Matt, 10 : 32,
DAILY HoME READINGS
M.—Matt. 10 : 32.42,
authority over destiny
12
Conf
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. THE KIKG I
L Men Confessing Christ:
CONF] ING ME
(20 (1 John 4 151.
IL. Christ Confessing Men
Him w I I
§
Denying and Denied
Try vg
in the Home
©
eel against me (Jol
Worthy of Christ
He that
%
I
Rev,
that loseteh his life
He
shall
W hie
faithful
the crown of life (Rev, 2: 10),
to send peace, but a
sword,” {1 The peace Christ
withholds ; (2) The peace Christ be-
STOWS | {3 The sword Christ
“He that loveth father h
more than me not worthy of
me.” (1) Love to parents subor-
dinated ‘ 3 Love
preme,
“Ie that findeth
he that loseth shall find.’ Spir-
itual paradoxes: (1) The finder
loses : (@) The loser finds, —{1) The
gain that is loss; (2) The losing
that is gain,
III. THE KING CONFERRING REWARDS,
I. Receiving Disciples :
He that receiveth you receiveth me
(40).
Whoso shall receive one such little
child. . . .receiveth me (Matt. 18:5).
Whosoever shall receive this little child
receiveth me (Luke © : 48).
He that rejecteth you rejecteth me
(Luke 10 : 16),
Ye received me as an angel of God (Gal.
4:14),
11. Recetving Christ ;
He that receiveth me receiveth him
that sent me (40),
y Phew
“1 came not
SCS,
or mother
is
to Christ
sl
Shall lose;
He that rejecteth me rejecteth hiro chat
| sent me (Luke 10 : 16),
| He that believeth on me, | elievech
| on him that sent me (John 12: 44),
| He that hath seen me hath seen the
| Father {John 14 : 9).
{ In him dwelleth all the fu
Godhead (Col, 2:9).
{ 111. Assuring Rewards:
He shall in no
12).
| Great is your reward in
5: 14).
Your reward
6: as .
Each shall receive his own reward
wise lowe Lis
heaven ()
shall be great
3:8).
I come quickly
me (Rev, 22
and my reward is
: 12).
1. “He that receiveth you receiveth
me.” (1) Christ represented !
people ; Christ received in
people | Christ rejected |
ple.
‘A cup of cold water
Kimplicity in the gift ; (2)
motive; SBublimity in the
(4)
* r"
5 !
J
Jr
: only.
Sincerity
in the
results,
“‘He shall
ward, ”’
1
wise lose his
no
t of the Holy
———
BOWING IN JAPAN
With a
Deal of Nonsense
Creal
An Oriental Custom
for
be ind
o begin business; a rickshaw coolie, to
ya pay a mere trifle for a toil-
rive, the railway sta-
tion, dripping from heat, mopping and
dowing until, if you be a new
ush away in convnlsions of laugh-
CESS,
stands at
comer,
y
ter.
“On leaving the hotel 1 distributed
backsheesh through the landlord to the
various employes, One after another
they trooping up, smiling and
opp ng down on the floor, thumping
their heads repeatedly against the
ground, mumbling with gratitude,
While as for the beggars—who, by
way, are not numerous-—they sprawl
on the bh. and in an extremity ol
self-abasement literally rub their head
| in dirt.
| “Again, on arriving at a
| the landlady first brings in tea, which
| she delivers crouching on the floor, and
| then the entire family come in in suc-
cession, and kneeling at your feet go
through the process of bumping thei
| foreheads,
“Nor is the bowing restricted to in-
feriors or to the lower classess, Many
a time have I watched the ceremony of
two friends from among the upper or-
ders, parting in the street. Backward
and forward they sway their bodies at
right angles, as if they worked on
pivots, until one wonders when they
will cease, Over at last, I think, Not
abitofit. They seperate for a few
paces, and then, as if a sudden omission
had struck them, they rush back and
go through the whole ridiculous busi.
ness again,”
came
th
vie
1d
ean
ahouse,
Cut down dead apple trees. They
serve as breeding places for insects,
Do not keep cats unless you are wile
ling to be scratched
The man who has the most money is
often poorer than he who has but little,