"Busy Bees"

"How doth the little busy bee employ each shining hour?
By gathering honey all the day from every opening flower."

Hat a busy little chap the bee is! Watch it flying from one flower to another, and directly it settles on a bloom it begins to work at once. The honey is distilled by the flowers, and if not gathered it disappears, therefore wherever it can be found the bee goes. The honey goes up the bee's tongue by attraction, and then passes into a bag which every "worker" bee possesses.

When this bag is quite full, the bee flies home and discharges all that it has collected into the hive, where it is made into sweet honey. Some bees are known as "drones," but these are lazy, and only hinder the workers; at the end of the honey season the "drones " are driven out of the hive and stung to death by the others. Each hive has only one leader, the queen; if another queen happens to come, she forms another swarm and finds another hive. Wherever the queen goes in the hive, she is treated with respect by all the other inhabitants. I remember seeing a bee's hive with one of its sides made of glass, and I could see that wherever the queen went, every other bee turned its head towards her, but still continued with their work while doing so.

The bees teach us many lessons, we have noticed that they are always busy, and we should all be busy, especially in doing good. Jesus only wants workers in His "hive. " He is the only Leader, He is the King, and we should at all times honour and adore Him; like the bees when turning their heads toward the queen, we can honour our Leader whilst still going on with our work.

Every "worker" bee in a hive has its own particular work to do, and does it too. We each have a particular piece of work to do for Jesus, and we disappoint Him, and lose also much of the sweetness of life, if we fail to do it. The more honey that a bee finds the more useful he is, and the more store of sweetness there is in the hive. Let us all decide to so follow our Leader, that we may gather much sweetness out of life, and be able to dispense sweetness to others for Jesus' sake. How lovely it is to be carriers to others of some of the sweetness of the love and goodness of Jesus. If we are, we shall lead others to follow Him whom we love and serve, and so be the means of adding to the glorious "hive" of our Leader and Lord, the Kingdom of Heaven.