vain expectation of reaping some wonderful profits, from 

 what he considers an improved mode of managing bees. 



Such conduct in its results, appears to me very much like 

 the noxious influences under vchich too many of the children 

 of the rich are so fatally reared. Wiih every want grati- 

 fied, pampered and fed to the very full, how often do we 

 see them disappoint all the fond expectations of parents and 

 friends, their money proving only a curse, while not unfre- 

 quently beggared in parse, and bankrupt in character, they 

 prematurely sink to an ignoble or dishonored grave. Think 

 of it, ye who are slaving in the service of Mammon, that ye 

 may leave to your sons, the overgrown wealth which usu- 

 ally proves a legacy of withering curses, while you neglect 

 to train them up in those habits of stern morality and steady 

 industry, and noble self-reliance, without which the wealth 

 of Crcesus would be but a despicable portion ! Think of it, 

 as you contrast its results in the bitter experience of thou- 

 *sands, with the happier influences under which so many of 

 our noblest men in Church and State, have been nurtured 

 and developed, and then pursue your sordid policy, if you 

 can. " There is that withholdeth" from good objects, " more 

 than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty :" yes, to poverty of 

 Christian virtue and manliness, and of those "treasures" * 

 which we are all entreated by God himself, to " lay up" in 

 the store-house of Heaven. Call your.narrow-mindedness 

 and gross deficiencies in Christian liberality, nothing more 

 than a natural love of your children, and an earnest desire 

 to provide for your own household. Little fear there may 

 be that you will ever incur the charge of being " worse 

 than an infidel" on this point ; but lay not on this account, 

 any flattering unction to your souls ; look within, tind see if 

 the base idolatry of gold has not more to do with your whole 



