Guarding the Milk

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1872

Guarding the Milk.

A ROMANIST peasant in Ireland had obtained a copy of the Bible. It came to the knowledge of the priest, who endeavored to convince him that he had no right to have the Holy Book in his possession. Among other things, he told him “he had no business with the Bible, for St. Peter said that it was not the word, but the milk of the word, that he ought to have,” and he referred to 1 Pet. 2:2, in confirmation of his remark.

The poor man replied with a spice of Irish wit, “I know that well, your riverence, but for fear the milk should be spoiled, I like to keep the cow that gives it with me in the house.”—Sel.