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TESTIMONY NEARER HOME

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 13.

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TESTIMONY NEARER HOME.

The first illustration of a tree, such as the tree of life is described to be, a tree with many trunks united in one top, was found in the Banyan tree of India. In Review No. 8, present volume, we adduced another instance from the West India Islands. And now it appears, we have an illustration even in our own State. Bro A. Smith of Ottawa Co., Mich., thus writes concerning it:—
To the article headed, “The Tree of Life,” in Review, present Vol. No. 8, the following might with propriety be appended: In a swamp, about ten miles south of Grand Rapids, is an elm tree with one large top, and two trunks, each about fifteen inches in diameter, and standing at the base about one rod apart. Their trunks are quite bare of limbs, as is also the body for a short distance above the junction, which is about forty feet from the ground. The trunks appear to be perfectly joined, and the tree in a healthy, thriving condition. If nature, in this imperfect state, can produce so strange an anomaly, what cannot nature’s God produce in Paradise?