Found Nourishment in Crumbs
By A. T. Pierson
MR. WILLIAMS, the apostle to the South Seas, once had his attention arrested by seeing a man arise from some stones and walk on his knees to meet him. “Welcome, servant of God, who brought light into this dark island,” shouted the man. Then the two engaged in a conversation concerning the man's experience. Mr. Williams said: “Buteve, where did you obtain all this knowledge? I do not remember ever to have seen you at the settlements where I have spoken; and besides this, your hands and feet are eaten off by disease, and you have to walk upon your knees.” Buteve answered: “As the people return from the service, I sit by the wayside, and beg from them, as they pass by, a bit of the Word. One gives me one piece, and another another, and I gather them together in my heart; and thinking over what I thus obtain, and praying to God to make me know, I get to understand.”—A. T. Pierson.