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The Wonders of Seed

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 13.

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The Wonders of Seed.

Is there upon earth a machine, is there a palace, is there even a city, which contains so much that is wonderful as is inclosed in a single little seed—one grain of corn, one grain of wheat, one little brown apple seed, one small seed of a tree, picked up, perhaps by a sparrow for her little ones, the smallest of a poppy or blue-bell, or even one of the seeds, that are so small that they float about in the air invisible to our eyes? Ah! there is a world of marvel and brilliant beauties hidden in each of these tiny seeds. Botanists suppose that there are some 100,000 kinds of plants. But has the seed of any one of them ever failed to produce its kind? Has any one ever deceived us? Has a seed of wheat ever yielded barley, or the seed of a poppy grown up into a sunflower? Has a sycamore tree ever sprung from an acorn, or a beech-tree from a chestnut?