May 29, 2007

• Animals of the Bible

  Several years ago I taught a Christian style boy scouts.  It was called Royal Rangers.  One of the sections was on animals.  I enjoyed the study then and I’d like to share a little of that study now:

   ”Go to the ant, you lazy person; consider her ways, and be wise.” 
  Consider the ant:
  In some places you may see small ant-hills scattered about, so close together that you can hardly step without treading on them; and you may find other places where there are not so many, but where the hills are much larger.

  I’ve seen ant hills so large that it couldn’t be stepped over.
  And then how busy the little creatures are!
  Just kneel down on the grass beside them, and notice how they work!
  You will see one little fellow creeping along as fast as he can go, with a grain of sand in his mouth, perhaps as large as his head.
  He does not stop to rest, but when he has carried his grain to help build the hill, away he goes for another.
  You may watch them all day and never see them idle at all.

  The ants seem to be very happy, and I think it is because they are so busy.
  The inside of an ant-hill is very curious, but it is not easy to examine it without destroying all the work that the little insects have taken so much pains to finish.
  There is a kind of ant in warm climates that builds for itself hills as high as a man. They are not made of sand, but of a kind of clay; and have a great many cells or apartments, and many winding passages leading from one part to another.

  All this is done without “guide, overseer or ruler;” that is, they have no one to direct them how to do it.
  God gives them skill just as he does to the honey-bees in building the beautiful cells which you have so often admired; all His works are wonderful.

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