Speaking Too Soon by Dr. Howard Crosby

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1879

Speaking Too Soon.

By Dr. Howard Crosby

It has been common to say that Scripture makes a mistake in speaking of the ant as storing up its food, that in reality it only stores up its eggs; but Colonel Sykes discovered at Poonah a species of ants (Atta Providens) which regularly stores up the seeds of millet for its food in stormy weather. The objectors did not know enough when they corrected the science of Scripture. They have been equally premature when they have objected to the Scripture statement regarding the ostrich abandoning its eggs, for late researches have proved that the ostrich quits her eggs during the day, and abandons them altogether if there has been any intrusion upon them, thus furnishing an admirable type of carelessness regarding offspring.—Dr. Howard Crosby.