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THE LORD'S CORN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 21.

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THE LORD'S CORN.

A mission station in the Indian Territory was at one time my house. Tobaccowell, one of our neighbors, was a member of the little mission church, and like many a white professor, was spasmodically zealous for the glory of God. One Sabbath he listened to a sermon from Gen. 28: 22,—“And of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.”
At the close of the service he said to the missionary,
“Me plant big corn-field next week. Me make it ten pieces; plant all, then one piece be the Lord’s corn.”
He did so; the part of the field to be devoted to the Lord was ploughed and planted with great care. But when the time for hoeing had arrived, our neighbor hoed his own corn, but did not find it convenient to hoe the Lord’s. As the season advanced, the Lord’s corn, uncultivated and dwarfed, and Tobaccowell’s well hoed, tall and thrifty, produced a sad and striking contrast.
The sight of that cornfield has been a life-long lesson to me; and whenever I find myself more devoted to my own personal interests than to the glory of God, I say to myself, I am neglecting the Lord’s corn.—Religious Intelligencer.