COME, TASTE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 29, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 22.

COME, TASTE.

“MR. SPURGEON tells of a man who invited his neighbor to come and eat some apples that grew in his orchard, but the neighbor refused. He invited him a second time, and was again refused, and finally the neighbor frankly told him that he had eaten some of his apples growing near the road, and found them very sour. ‘O,’ replied the friend, ‘I planted those sour apples on the outside for the bad boys, who, if they get a taste of good apples, will rob my orchard. The good apples grow in the center of the orchard.’ Now, many of us are eating the sour apples that hang over the highway of worldliness. We need to come into the orchard of separation, and the apples that grow there are like the manna that comes down from heaven.’”