''SERMONS IN''— ANTS. 33B 



an instructor in sacred truths must be placed upon this 

 good man who is to-day our IMshop. 



" Some of you, perliaps, liave lieard that many years 

 ago I gave a large part of my time to the study of in- 

 sects — those little creatures Avho are popularly known 

 among us as ' bugs. ' I am sorry that people do not 

 speak more correctly in this matter. There are indeed 

 some insects who are properly called by that name ; 

 but all insects are not bugs, indeed a very small 

 proportion of them belong to that group. These 

 favorite studies of mine have led Dr. Goodman to ask 

 me to speak about the insects of the Bible. 



"Among those which the Good Book mentions is 

 the ant I have known city children who never saw an 

 ant, or at least had no notion at all what that insect 

 looks like — in fact, couldn't tell an ant from a grass- 

 hopper. But among these country children before me 

 I am sure that there is not a single one who doesn't 

 know just how an ant looks. However, I will ventui'e 

 to show you a picture of one." (Fig. 106.) 



I turned the outer card upon the easel, and amid 

 many half-suppressed "Oh's!" exhibited a colored 

 figure. This, by-the-way, was one of a series of draw- 

 ings which I had prepared at one time for a course of 

 lectures. They had received a resurrection from the 

 store room of my city business place where they had 

 long been buried amid sundry rubbish, and were for- 

 warded to me by express when the Doctor's request 

 gave occasion for their use. 



" These figures show two ants known as the Acrricul- 



