Modern Fable | AdventAI

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

Modern Fable.

Soon High, Soon Low!—“Mother,” said a little daisy, which had lost sight of the sun under the shadow of a huge mushroom, “isn’t it unbearable? Here we, who have been patiently growing and putting forth bud after bud and leaf after leaf, from the very dawn of spring, and have gradually increased to a very decent family, through summer and the opening of the autumn, suddenly buried, eclipsed, lost, under the shade of this monstrous creature, the growth of a day or two!” “Never mind, child,” said the Parent Plant; “my experience of those things is that they perish as quickly as they rise; we advance slowly but surely, and strengthen as we grow; the very rapidity with which a mushroom runs up, carries in it the sentence of a brief existence. Be patient; it will soon vanish, and we shall see the sun again.”