Kingless Folk, and Other Addresses on Bible Animals

The bat was regarded as unclean. Two reasons may be given for this--corresponding to the two classes of bats which are known to have existed in Bible lands. We have first the _i...

"Little, _but exceeding wise_," that surely is a splendid diploma for "feeble folk." If all the children in our homes would but try to gain that "good degree," it would be a mer...

"But Love, that moves the earth, and skies, and sea, Beheld his old love in her misery, And wrapped her heart in sudden gentle sleep; And meanwhile caused unnumbered _ants_ to c...

There is only one connection in which we find honey prohibited. It was to have no place in the Jewish meat offering (Lev. ii. 11). Everything liable to _fermentation_ was exclud...

3. Even in its death the fly renders a most substantial service. It forms the food of innumerable song-birds, which, apart from the fly, would never be found in our land at all....

We are so accustomed nowadays to clocks and watches, that the ancient difficulty of marking the time may never have occurred to us. We listen to our time-pieces striking the hou...