Word: honeying
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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Which come with honey from the flowery field...
...labor, what does the preacher gain by such a picture? For who indeed ever sits down in his study - and few men can be their real selves there - and deliberately writes out a description of heaven, without making that happiest of all places "a land flowing with milk and honey"? That expression meant a great deal of one kind of happiness when it was addressed to an Oriental people thousands of years ago; but to many a person, milk and honey are altogether too distasteful to make any place desirable...