APPLES OF GOLD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 2.

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"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver."

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO.

No. 39. Oakland, Cal., March, 1897. 10c per Year.

THE SEVENTH, OR ONE-SEVENTH?

A Sabbath Query.

Suppose I call on a friend who is ill, and he says that on the shelf I will find seven bottles, numbered in order from one to seven, and asks me to give him half a dozen grains of quinine from the seventh bottle. He states particularly that it is the seventh bottle; and in order to make the matter sure, he repeats that it is the seventh bottle,—the one with the number seven upon it. I go to the shelf, and pick up the first bottle, from which I give him half a dozen grains of arsenic, and the result is he dies.