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THE ABBOT'S CROP

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 45.

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THE ABBOT'S CROP.

A STORY is told of an abbot who wanted to buy a field near his monastery. The owner would not sell it, but at last he consented to lease it for the growth of one crop. The abbot planted it with acorns; with oaks growing on it, he was sure of the land as long as he and his fraternity might want it. Satan outwits good people sometimes in a similar style. He gets the first planting of children's hearts, and he has them for life.