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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 5

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The Food of John the Baptist.

By Vesta N. Cudworth

Matt. iii, 4. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
“THE locust was a fruit, a bean-like pod, with a seed in it similar to the Carob, or husk on which the prodigal son fed.”—Butterworth.
“The wild honey, a kind of gum.”—Dr. Forestall.
If this is true, John the Baptist was a good vegetarian after all; while many refer us to that prophet as eating grasshoppers. VESTA N. CUDWORTH.