AN ARABIAN ANECDOTE

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 4, 1867

AN ARABIAN ANECDOTE.

An old Arab, hunch-backed, shriveled, rode alone in the desert upon a lagging horse. He was overtaken by one whom he had formerly known, a youthful chieftain, beautiful and brave. They conversed as they rode, hour by hour. At last, the old man said, “Let me tell thee of thy great improvement since last we met.” And the young chieftain listened joyfully. By and by the old man said, “Let me tell thee, also, of the faults which still remain unto thee.” Whereupon the young chieftain replied, “Friend, I just bethink me that I need to make haste to meet my father in yonder tents.” And he spake unto his swift horse, and left the old man far behind. “Thus,” mused the hunchback, “do men hear joyfully those things which they easily find out, though they should hear them not; while those things which they hardly find out, even though they should hear them, they have not time to hear.”