PLANT GROWTH by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 19, 1875

PLANT GROWTH.

By James White

A writer in the Garden-er's Chronicle, of London, has taken the pains to carefully estimate the amount of growth of a small shrub, two feet six inches in hight, during the past season. He finds that 585 new shoots have been out, having a maximum length of about one hundred feet. The number of leaves on these shoots he found 40,000, each of which was about half an inch in length. As may easily be determined, this would make the aggregate length of growth during one season 3600 feet, or more than two-thirds of a mile.

MAKE no Christian living your standard of what is right in faith and practice, however high his name, his rank, or his learning. Let your creed be the Bible, and nothing but the Bible; your example Christ, and nothing short of him.

THE true life begins only when self is lost sight of—when we devote ourselves to others. This is the most difficult of reforms; yet it is it also the greatest, as it removes the most formidable obstacle to the spread of Christianity.

THERE are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any business, and the other is that they haven't any mind.