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The Bible as a Forest of Fruit

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 15, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 9.

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The Bible as a Forest of Fruit

The Bible is a very large, wide forest, wherein stand many trees, of all kinds, from which we can gather many kinds of fruits. For in the Bible we have rich consolation, doctrine, instruction, exhortation, warning, promises, and threatenings. But in all this forest there is not a tree from which I have not shaken and broken off at least a pair of apples or pears.
God is not harsh, as we are to those who have injured us. We withdraw our hand and close our purse; but he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.
He sees thee in thy poverty and wretchedness, and knows thou hast nothing to pay, therefore he freely forgives and gives thee all.