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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 16.

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BURIED OR SOWN.

By Archbishop Trench

There went a man from home, and to his neighbors twain He gave to keep for him two sacks of golden grain. Deep in his cellar one the precious charge concealed, And forth the other went and strewed it on the field.
The man returns at last—asks of the first his sack. “Here, take it, ’t is the same; thou hast it safely back.” Unharmed it shows without, but when he would explore His sack’s recesses, corn there finds he now no more.
One-half of what was there proves rotten and decayed, Upon the other half had mold and mildew prey’d. The putrid heap to him in ire he does return, Then to the other asks, “Where is my sack of corn?”
Who answered, “Come with me, and see how it has sped,” Who took and showed him fields with waving harvest spread. Then cheerfully the man laughed out and cried, “This one had insight, to make up for the other that had none.”
The letter he observed, but thou the precept’s sense, And thus to thee and me shall profit grow from hence; In harvest thou shalt fill two sacks of corn for me, The residue of right remains in full for thee. —Archbishop Trench.