p. 27 | STUNG TO DEATH

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 20, 1881

STUNG TO DEATH.

WE sometimes hear of a person being stung to death, but there are more deaths caused by stinging than most people suppose. A bee in inflicting a sting, it is said, leaves its barbed weapon in the wound, and being thus mutilated inevitably dies. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the stinger dies, while the person stung lives. The bee stings itself to death in trying to sting somebody else. There are men and woman who might learn a lesson from this fact. If you purpose to sting others, remember that you may be more likely to injure yourself than them. Your stinging may hurt others, and kill yourself. "If a man will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile."—The Christian.