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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 37.

Taste and See

A PRISON visitor gave a convict a Bible. He employed himself in raising questions on difficult passages to ask the donor at every visit. Seeing that the study was of no profit to the convict, the visitor said: "What would you think of a hungry man who had not eaten a morsel of food for the last twenty-four hours, and was asked by a charitable man to come in and sit down at a richly covered table, on which were large dishes of choice food, and also covered ones, the contents of which the hungry man did not know? Instead of satisfying his exhausted body with the former, he raises one cover after another, and insists on finding out what these unknown dishes are composed of.

In spite of all the advice of the charitable man to partake first of the more substantial dishes, he dwells with obstinate inquiry on nicer compounds, until, overcome with exhaustion, he drops down. What do you think of such a man?" "He is a fool," said the convict; "and I will be one no longer. I understand you well." — Selected.